Wikipedia The Visual C ++ page contains a summary, which I think will be updated frequently as we approach the release:
Visual C ++ 2010 (also known as Visual C ++ 10.0) is scheduled to be released on April 12, 2010. Currently, development and availability is publicly available only in beta form and is available on MSDN as a release candidate. Visual C ++ team tailored to use the SQL Server Compact database to store information about source code, including IntelliSense information, for better IntelliSense and code completion support. This version adds a modern C ++ parallel computing library called the parallel template library, partial support for C ++ 0x, IntelliSense has significantly improved, and performance improvements for both the compiler and the generated code. This version is built on .NET 4.0, but supports compilation on machine code. Partial support for C ++ 0x in VC10 consists of 6 compiler functions (lambdas, rvalue links, auto, decltype, static_assert, nullptr) and some library functions (for example, moving TR1 Components from the std :: tr1 namespace directly to the std namespace) . VARIADIC templates have also been considered, but are delayed to some future version to reduce the priority arising from the fact that, unlike other expensive functions in VC10 (lambda, rvalue links), this one would benefit from a minority of libraries than most end-users of the compiler.
- Beta 2 version number: 16.00.21003.01 (this is the compiler version, the IDE itself has version number 16.00.21006.01)
- RC Version Number: 16.00.30128.01