Today we released the March CTP of Visual Studio codename ”Orcas”.
Our goal with Orcas is to build the best tool set for Windows Vista and Office 2007, expand our role-based and team offerings, deliver complete AJAX support and deliver revolutionary language and data integration.
In this CTP, you can start to see the great progress we’ve made here. For the first time, we have a WPF designer in the product, enabling a more complete WPF development experience. One of the key promises of Orcas is language-data integration and you can see this with the Language Integrated Query capability built into the product. Team Foundation Server users will see the first CTP of the Orcas release with a number of customer requested features. There’s all of this and a lot more built into this CTP.
To get this CTP you can go here and download either a VPC image (be sure to get the base image disk if this is your first time) or a self-extracting install set. For more information you can visit the MSDN Developer Centers, where you will find links to the team blogs and our MSDN forums. You can also submit feedback on the CTP through Microsoft Connect
This release is one of our key milestones on the way to the Beta 1 and will really allow you to receive a true experience of what Orcas will provide. I encourage you to download the CTP and provide us with your feedback. Your early and ongoing feedback is absolutely a key part of us building the right product.
Namaste!
lots of fun .net stuff, but nothing exciting for the unmanaged world :(
The March 2007 Orcas CTP is now available for download. You can see Soma's anouncement about it here
The March 2007 Orcas CTP is now available for download. You can see Soma's anouncement about it here
Will Beta1 come with the express editions? And, will they be in a manageable size?
This week we released the Visual Studio codename "Orcas" March 2007 CTP and this is the first time that
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>>lots of fun .net stuff, but nothing exciting for the unmanaged world :(<<
Hi Cory,
I don't think we've been as effective at communicating the native code features of Orcas as we have some of the managed stuff, but Orcas does include some cool features for native code developers as well. To name a few...
1. MFC support for new Vista controls, common dialogs, and Vista UI guidelines (actually, we not only added support for Vista stuff, but also some of the XP-era stuff that we had yet to do)
2. Dialog editor support for new Vista controls
3. Improved build throughput with the ability to compile multiple files in parallel within a project
4. Class designer support in the IDE
5. Updates to Spy++ to support Vista and 64-bit
Related to how native code, we also have a few features in Orcas that make it easier to interoperate between native and managed code, including:
1. STL/CLR: An implementation of the C++ STL, including containers, iterators, and algorithms that can be used with C++/CLI managed code and also interop with other managed languages
2. The Marshaling Libraries, which handle the dirty work of converting between commonly used native and managed types
3. Managed incremental build, which can dramatically improve incremental build speed for mixed or managed solutions
Orcas was actually a fairly modest release for the VC++ team, as we have a good chunk of the team dedicated to longer-lead, post-Orcas work. Expect to see the fruits of this work begin to appear in the next major VS release after Orcas.
I also want to point out that native code development is the #1 focus area for the VC++ product. You can learn more about our product strategy and vision by checking out this Channel9 video that Bill Dunlap and I did recently: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=283081.
Thanks!
Steve Teixeira
Group Program Manager, VC++
Visual Studio codename "Orcas" March 2007 CTP has been released, and it contains aspects of
Le nouveau CTP est maintenant disponible. Vous pouvez consulter l'annonce officielle sur le site de Somasegar.
Somasegar's WebLog : Visual Studio "Orcas" March CTP is available now 이전과 마찬가지로 VPC와 인스톨본 두가지 형태로 제공됩니다:
This week Microsoft released the Visual Studio codename "Orcas" March 2007 CTP and this is the first...
Hi Yuvi,
We will have Express versions of the product at Beta1. The teams are working on keeping the size manageable. Let's see how much progress we make in this time-frame.
-somasegar
Hi Somasegar,
I have been testing the CTP for a couple of days now, but I still can´t find any AJAX support? Do I need to install the ASP.NET AJAX extensions to use it, or can I add a reference to a specific dll?
Regards,
Mikael Söderström
are there checksums available for the files (VSMar07CTP_TFSVSTS_9PartsTotal...)? I downloaded them but extracting fails. I don't want to download the whole stuff again, so it would be nice to find out which one is corrupted.
Thanks,
Thomas
Hi Thomas,
Are you sure you were downloaded the correct files?
It happened to me last time. It seems that the .rar file I downloaded corrupted. But I have mixed those filex with different released. do you get what I mean?
They have released 4 different set of files to be downloaded:
1. VSTS with VPC image
2. VSTS with TFS with VPC image
3. VSTS self extracted
4. VSTS with TFS self extracted
What can I suggest to you is to check your files name. Look at its name convention. The file name is different between each other. I got noticed I've mixed the wrong files when I saw differences in its naming convention. Hope this helps.
Rasyadi
http://geekswithblogs.net/rasyadi