Today Jason Zander announced the availability of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta on his blog. It’s available today for MSDN subscriber and will be general available on Thursday.

This service pack consists for the most part of fixes for issues logged through the connect site, but one noticeable new feature is the inclusion of the VB runtime compiler switch. This allows developers to ‘embed’ the Visual Basic Runtime in their assemblies, similar to No-PIA. The compiler figures out which parts of the runtime your program actually uses and embeds only these parts in the generated assemblies.

Download the service pack and report any issues you encounter, that’s the only way we can make it better for you. (Even if the issues you encounter aren’t fixed in the service pack, we still look at them and consider them for a next version of Visual Studio).

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