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Visual Studio Orcas September CTP now available

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Today we released the latest update of the Orcas CTP.  This is a much fuller release than the last one.

Some general highlights:

  • LINQ to Objects API (query arrays, generic lists and other .Net collections using LINQ)
  • Partial C# 3.0 support (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/future) for more details on where this is going
  • .Net framework improvements

For Windows Mobile developers

  • Embedded Visual C++ support - work with your existing Embedded C++ 4.0 projects
  • Unit testing for mobile devices
  • VSTS Integration (You can check your mobile project in to Team Foundation Server)
  • Access and modify device security inside the IDE

This CTP is a little different.  We've actually provided it as a Virtual PC Image, so if you wan to give it a go you can download it from here.   You can get Virtual PC and Virtual Server for free from here (Virtual PC) and here (Virtual Server).

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2006
    Your link to "futures" is bad. should be "future"
  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2006
    I appreciate a lot that finally you've agree to release the CTPs as a Virtual PC Image. I think it's more suitable for everyone of us. We can be more productive to test the program without loosing time on trying to install it on a fresh machine (if we have a fresh machine ready to use ;) ).
    Thanks for this choice.
  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2006
    [Via Darryl] Details available here, this is available as a VPC image only (which will make giving this
  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2006
    fixed the link - thanks
  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2006
    The main download is not working.  I was able to download the base Virtual PC.

    Steve
  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2006
    The comment has been removed
  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2006
    I saw on the Cider MSDN forum that Cider is not going to have further development under VS2005(Fidalgo). The blog stated that the full Orcas CTPs would carry on development. I installed the September and did not see Cider/WPF support. Is it in this release?Steve
  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2006
    Windows Server 2003 runs slowly under VPC. Is it possible to get Orcas under XP in VPC?Steve
  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2006
    Steve, Windows Server 2003 shouldn't be running slowly under VPC - make sure you are running the latest VPC additions - you can install these from the file menu inside the guest window
  • Anonymous
    October 04, 2006
    Nathan,I installed Virtual PC addtions and it still runs slowly and I still need to do mouse capture. Are there other addititon I need to download for Server 2003?
  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2006
    Steve, can you compare your system requirements with the requirements for the VPC? These are listed on the download page.