

The released Visual Studio 2010 RTM has the build version 9.1 RTMRel. NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight. Visual Studio is a IDE (Integrated Development Environment) from Microsoft for developers and programmers to develop console and graphical user interface (GUI) applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all platforms supported by Windows OS, Windows Mobile, Windows CE. In addition, there are also a Visual Studio Test Professional 2010, a specialized toolset for QA (quality assurance) test execution Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010, which streamlines and automates software delivery process for all team members and Visual Studio 2010 Express, which is available for free.

My question is why do I need to set up an account for the 'Dev Essentials program' and am not able to simply download the software? Does the reason include needing to assign an id to the people who download an older version? Also I am looking for an answer that includes any information about the program itself, your experience with it, and any benefits of linking it to my account.Microsoft has launched the final RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, which will be available in three (3) editions, namely Ultimate, Professional and Premium. However on the page it says to "Select a product below and click on the download button to log in to your Visual Studio (MSDN) subscription or join the free Dev Essentials program, to gain access to the older versions." The link from the book, now redirects to but after using the search bar to look for 2010 version I am directed to where the download I need is available and shown. I am following along with a book that requires me to have a previous version of Visual Studio (2010).
