In case you hadn't heard, earlier this week (October 19th at the SharePoint Conference) we announced several things related to Visual Studio. Among them we announced Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (download it here), Beta 2 "go live" guidance, changes to the product lineup – including the "Ultimate Offer" – and even a screencast to help you download and install Visual Studio 2010. We also unveiled a new look:

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Okay, so it's all new… How do I learn about it?
To make your ramp on Visual Studio 2010 as easy as possible, we've also made a training kit available for the .NET Framework v4 and Visual Studio 2010. The kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. The resources in the kit are designed to help you learn how to utilize Visual Studio 2010 as well as show you a variety of framework technologies including:

• C# 4.0
• Visual Basic 10
• F#
• Parallel Extensions
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• ASP.NET 4
• Windows 7
• Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Managed Extensibility Framework
• Visual Studio Team System

One important thing: this training kit *only* works with Beta 2 of the .NET Framework v4 and Visual Studio 2010. If you have Beta 1 or another interim build, you will need to move to Beta 2 to take advantage of the labs and demos in this kit.

So, what are you waiting for? Download Beta 2, kick the tires, and see what all the hubbub is about.