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It appears that Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 has just been released. This is important for a few reasons:

• I use Visual Studio for all my Windows C++ development. A new version should mean a better development environment, along with a few C++0x features.
• It is reported that the Visual Studio 2010 runtime libraries no longer require arcane knowledge of manifests and _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION in order to deploy applications with DLLs just placed along-side them.
• I organise my C++ code by Visual Studio version; E:\CPP for Visual Studio 6 and 2003 code, E:\CPP\2K5 for Visual Studio 2005 code, and E:\CPP\2K8 for Visual Studio 2008 code. Now I'll have to start using E:\CPP\2010.

I am pleasantly surprised to see that it is already available on Microsoft DreamSpark, meaning that if you're a student, then you can get a free legal copy of Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition. If you're not a student, then you can of course get Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition for free, but like all Express Editions of Visual Studio, you're unable to do things like compile native 64-bit C++ applications. Now I just have to see if CMake supports 2010, and then make sure that the projects I'm working on all compile nicely on it.