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February/March Orcas CTP Now Available

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The February CTP (aka as the March CTP) is now available for download as a regular install and as a virtual PC. Here is a video that serves as an introduction to the CTP.

This CTP is a pre-release version of Visual Studio Orcas. This release features support for LINQ to SQL, which means you can use LINQ to query relational databases.

There were a few issues with this CTP when running on Vista, and when running side by side with Visual Studio 2005. As a result, if you have VS 2005 installed, or if you are running on Vista, then I would suggest using the VPC version of this download. When downloading the VPC version of Orcas, don't forget to get the base image.

Here is a link to various LINQ related articles and posts, and be sure also to see this post which details many of the changes since the May CTP. Here is a link to videos and articles that I have written on LINQ.

Here are some Anders videos from Tech Ed Barcelona:

  1. LINQ Overview
  2. C# 3.0

Here are few other LINQ related videos to help you get started:

  1. Anders on LINQ and Functional Programming
  2. Anders on Ask the Experts, Jan 17, 2007
  3. Anders on LINQ from 2005
  4. Anders on LINQ from the LANG.NET Conference
  5. Anders Chatting about LINQ and ADO.NET
  6. Anders, Herb Sutter, Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman on Software Composability
  7. Anders with Chris McConnell
  8. Eric Lippert on Type Inference
  9. Peter Hallam on Automatic Properties
  10. Performance Issues in Visual Studio (Anson Horton, C# PM, only tangentially related to LINQ)
  11. Luca Bolognese (Lead PM, C# Team) on "What's New in the May LINQ Preview"
  12. C# PM's Karen Liu and DJ Park on the C# IDE, LAF, and support for LINQ.
  13. An Interview with Wes Dyer (Download)
  14. Raj Pai, C# GPM, on the C# Team

Here are some specs to review:

  1. Formatting Code in Orcas
  2. DLINQ Data Types and Functions
  3. Mapping Draft Specification

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  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2007
    I love the idea of a video to accompany the CTP!

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2007
    Thanks for the video! I'm really glad that you joined the C# team :-)! Tomas, C# MVP

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2007
    Pingback: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/orcas-march-ctp-available-from-msdn.html

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2007
    Pingback: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/windows-vista-not-supported-on-orcas.html

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2007
    Welcome to the twenty-second Community Convergence, the March CTP issue. I'm Charlie Calvert, the C#

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2007
    Welcome to the twenty-second Community Convergence, the March CTP issue. I'm Charlie Calvert, the

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2007
    A good news. Much interested in this topic and got a chance to tryout the earlier version. Expecting  more stable one now with more features.

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2007
    Here are a set of updated samples for the Visual Studio Orcas March CTP . These samples replace all the

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2007
    Here is a short 7 minute video to serve as an introduction to the Samples that are included with the

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    March 05, 2007
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    March 05, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2007
    Thanks for doing this!!  I know we get release notes with every drop, but in some ways this is a lot more effective at communicating what's new, what's changed, etc.  For example, knowing that 700,000 QA tests were done with Linq to SQL since the May bits, or that intellisense has been gutted and rebuilt. I do wish they had talked a bit on ADO.NET Entity Framework though.  Specifically, how it relates/compares/competes to/with Linq to SQL, and what the story looks like for using either of these technologies in a tiered environment where I'm not just hitting up SQL Server directly from my WinForms app...

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2007
    De entre la avalancha de vídeos, documentos y enlaces que con los que nos abrumó Charlie Calvert simultáneamente

  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2007
    Hi, thanks for the information. But, how can I create a DVD out of this? After extracting, the files have over 4.8GB size! Thanks.

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  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2007
    Regarding this quote... "Stop hoarding your language and IDE to just SQL Server." I attended a seminar on DLinq with Scott Guthrie, and I fielded this exact question to him. They actually aren't supporting SQL Server exclusively.  However, that particular provider is the only one they (M$) are developing and distributing with the DLinq framework.   The provider model is basically a published API that any database server software publisher can utilize to make plug-ins to the DLinq framework. So.. the ability is there.  The competitors just haven't taken it up yet.  If they don't, I imagine at some point, an ISV will do it.

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2007
    Very Good. in my weblog there are C# Videos .

  • Anonymous
    March 27, 2007
    I delivered a session on Architecting the Next Generation of .NET Applications at http://www.spaconference.org/spa2007

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    March 27, 2007
    This year I've been @ TechDays2007 presenting 2 sessions: DEV011 - C# 3.0 Future Language Directions

  • Anonymous
    April 02, 2007
    On Saturday on March 31, 2007 I did a couple of talks at the Toronto Code Camp. The first an overview

  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2007
    Is there a way to download the first 2 videos   1.  LINQ Overview   2.  C# 3.0 The links take me to the MSDN showtime website but there doesn't seem to be any way to download the videos

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