Lucian's VBlog

Async CTP Refresh - installation The Async CTP Refresh was announced on 13th April 2011. It includes Visual Studio 2010 SP1 compatibility, enables Windows Phone 7 development, has a new EULA with updates regarding usage in production environments,...

Async CTP Refresh - Design Changes The big news about the Async CTP Refresh is that it enabled development on SP1 and for Windows Phone 7, and came with a new EULA. But there were also a few design changes... Async is like the zombie virus ...

Async CTP Refresh - its state and direction We really appreciate everyone who has installed the Async CTP. It has given us tremendous feedback. We appreciate all the discussion and bug reports that have come from users. We made the CTP uninstallable...

Async CTP Refresh - Compiler Bug fixes The big news about the Async CTP Refresh is that it enabled development on SP1 and for Windows Phone 7, and came with a new EULA. But there were also a few bug fixes... We heard about some of these bugs from...

Async CTP Refresh - what bugs remain in it? Q. How many bugs remain in the Async CTP Refresh? A. That's hard to know. Our QA efforts have been dedicated to testing our async codebase that will be part of the next Visual Studio. We've spent far...

Async CTP Refresh - mitigations when using the CTP The preceding four blog posts have outlined the known and unknown bug areas in the CTP. Now it's time to set out some concrete mitigation strategies. Use F# instead F# already shipped in VS2010...