VS 2010 and .NET FX 4 available as Community Technology Preview version(CTP)

Some one asked me get an article on VS2010 and .NET FX 4 (codenamed Rosario).
As i did not had much of time to write a complete article on this. I found some of the following links and details. These might help to get basic to start.
1 . Download CTP details
First and the best part is the Commnity Preview is available as Virtual PC(VPC) environment containing VS 2008 and pre-release of VS2010. As VPC's are pre-configured, that will help to quick start, with out installtion and configuration. But the pre-requesite is to have Virtual PC 2007 in your system.
Check the following link to download the CTP and details of the download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655-93D0-4476-BDA4-94CF5F8D4814&displaylang=en
2. Start with VS 2010
Kindly check the following link to get the overview of the prodcut.
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/products/2010/default.mspx
Chck the following links that gives outline of VS 2010 and .Net FX 4.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/concept_ide.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/11/12/net-fx-4.aspx
http://weblogs.asp.net/thiagosantos/archive/2008/12/18/screencast-test-driven-development-with-vs-2010.aspx

Referred Links
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vs2010ctp
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=9790
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio
http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2007/09/06/a-more-reliable-and-faster-download-experience-for-rosario-vs08-vpc-s.aspx

Happy coding..

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Plz view the following blog which helped me to fix CTRL + ENTER in IE. Enjoy!!!!! Fixing!!!!!


http://geekswithblogs.net/dank/archive/2005/03/18/26635.aspx

If the above link does not work... Here is the text fom that URL

Ok, so I was helping a friend this weekend with some web browsing problems, IE6, spyware, hijacked homepage and unwanted reappearing porn bookmarks, and the whole time I was working on his machine, IE was driving me nuts. I am a *huge* fan of the Ctrl + Enter shortcut to add "http://www/" and ".com" into the address bar for me. His was not working, so I figured I'd just go into tools, options and reset default settings, but no luck. I finally found it under Tools\Options\Advanced-Under Browsing, by checking the inline AutoComplete box. Just out of curiosity, I tried resetting the defaults, and it *unchecked* that on me. Hmmm, ctrl + enter has always worked on exery pc I've ever used, how is that the case when it's not the *default* setting?
I know the *real* answer to this is go download Firefox, but for now there are still tons of people who don't use FF and they still ask us to help them with their computers from time to time. There are also tons of companies who have declared IE the one browser to rule them all.
One more browsing shortcut sidenote: The Ctrl + Enter also works in FF, adding the http://www/. and the .com to what you type in the address bar, but wait, there's more, if you order within the next fifteen minutes, Firefox will also add the http://www/. and .net to the entry if you use Shift + Enter. How is that done in IE? Oh wait, it *can't* be done in IE, nevermind.