All About Microsoft reports that Microsoft is making available this week a first beta of its Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack (SP) 1 release.

SP1, which includes updates to both Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4, features updated help support and IntelliTrace support for 64bit and SharePoint. SP1 will include Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 (with a few updates to RIA Services) in the box along with Silverlight 3 support, “underscoring our commitment to that quickly-evolving platform,” company officials said.

  First service pack beta for Visual Studio 2010 now downloadable