Earlier this week, Microsoft has released RC 1 (release candidate) version of Visual Studio 2010. This version is freely available to everybody. If you want to download it and start playing with it, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx.

Along with this release, some training ad tutorials appeared on MSDN. If you want to watch a couple of “how do I?” videos, check Beth Massi’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2010/02/09/how-do-i-videos-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx. The same link also provides another link for samples and walkthroughs.

Also available is the Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 training kit. If you want to download this 200MB kit which contains something like 17 presentations, 22 demos, and 32 hands-on labs, visit http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en.