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Hey Brian, one of the first things I tried to do w/the image was mount it on one of our big windows 2008 servers here via Hyper-V. We gave the image 4 gigs, and fired it up, but for some reason we cannot get the virtual machine manager additions to install properly, and everytime we try to do something once logged in, the CPU of the VM pegs making it almost impossible to use as is.  I don't know if anyone else has tried this, or if you had any guidance, but the CTP would be much easier to evaluate for us in this environment vs. using Virutal PC.

Thanks,

Bob

I have been scared away from CTPs.  

If Microsoft would offer this as expiring VMs then I would love to try them out.  

But the danger of messing up a machine from installing one of these ctps is just to great.

WOW!  I fell dumb!

I did not even look to see if it was a VM!

I will make sure I look before I comment next time.  :)

The Architecture Explorer crashed VS in our project. Too sad, I really looked forward to test it after all the cool demos at the PDC.

Could be related to the fact that I can't compile the solution due to some not very helpful error message in our WF project. Something about checking the LoaderException for more info, I can look it up if you are interested.

I launched it and imported one of our C++ solutions.  

I then tried to use a number of features that have been given prominent menu positions - and they were mainly dot-net only.

Code Metrics (still dot-net only), Historical Debugging...

Architecture Explorer crashed each time I bought it up - I submitted the crash reports.

Generate Sequence Diagram said "Value does not fall within the expected range".

I like the new selection style in the code-editor window and the Source Control History window is a big improvement.

@Bobw @Brian,

To get the image working under Hyper-V you need to enable the 'Detect HAL' option.

See my blog post for the full story:

http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2008/11/03/converting-vs2010-ctp-to-hyper-v.aspx

Grant

Could you please make so that the VPC-image is usable on a FAT32-drive by default? I use an external USB-drive with FAT32 and when I unzip the image I have to do that on a NTFS-drive, split the image in chunks < 4GB and move it back to the USB-drive.

I downloaded it, unpacked it, and ran it for a few minutes.  I looked at some of the walkthroughs and didn't find anything very compelling to invest more time looking at.

I am doing mostly C# WinForms development, and I guess there isn't a lot that is changing/improving in that area.  So maybe VS2010 will not be a big-deal upgrade for devs like myself.

I am curious about some of the C# dynamic stuff, but since most of my COM work is behind me now, I don't think I'll be putting that to work either.

Besides some progress on concurrency, I don't see much use for 2010/4.0.

IMHO, the new features in the BCL are a joke, C# 4.0 is a step backward just to satisfy Office COM-Interop.

And what about a native 64-Bit Studio IDE?

Read Phil Taylor's blog:

http://www.futuregpu.org/2008/11/when-im-64.html

I generally like what I see after my (up to now) very limited testing of new C# and C++-related features. However, I miss support for the new SQL2008 hierarchyid type in both LINQ-to-SQL and the Entity Framework. Since it is a CLR type inside SQL as well, I had expected a seamless integration by .NET 4.0.

Next, the proportional fonts in the editor (for example the Intellisense drop-down) look fuzzy. Is that the dreaded SmearType(tm) effect from WPF rearing its head? The source itself (Courier and Consolas) looks good, though.

I installed the image running with 4 CPU's under Hyper-V to test the new paralell extensions / libraries. T

he VPC image runs fine under Hyper-V but Visual studio crashes every time I create a new solution. That makes it a bit hard to get much done.

It's just a very good idea to let us see what are you doing by using a VM.

I downloaded and wrote a big post about it (in pt-br):

http://www.marcosdellantonio.net/2008/11/21/primeiras-imagens-do-visual-studio-team-system-2010/

There is just one point that I didn't understand: why the MSF for Agile now is VSTS for Agile?

Thanks.

Any news on the fuzziness issue that plagues all of us trying to push WPF onto users who's first reaction is 'why is the text blurry'

I'm running out of excuses on this one and people are starting to look at Adobe AiR in our place because of it.

Any chance an extension to the evaluation copy is possible?  Just got this running finally and the evaluation period has expired