The March CTP is now available for download. The March CTP includes the first "Orcas" CTP release of Team Foundation Server. You can install it yourself by grabbing the self-extracting installation file, or you can grab one of the VPC images.

For more information, see "Orcas" Related CTP Downloads.

Here's a sampling of what you can find in this release for Team System:

• Top-down service design 
• Architectural roles on system, applications and endpoints 
• Profiler support for WCF applications 
• Customize and extend code correctness policies 
• Performance tune an enterprise application 
• Unit test generation improvements 
• Web test validation rule improvements 
• Better Web test data binding 
• Improved load test results management 
• Support multi-threaded builds with the new MSBuild
• Continuous integration support
• Improved ability to specify what source, versions of source, etc. to include in a build
• Improved ability to manage multiple build machines
• Simplified ability to specify what tests get run as part of a build
• Version control features (Destroy, Annotate, Folder Diff, and Get Latest on Checkout)
• Team Foundation Server performance and scale improvements

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