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Visual Studio "Orcas" and .NET FX 3.5 Beta1 shipped!

Today we signed off on the Beta 1 release for Visual Studio “Orcas” and .NET FX 3.5. 

 

I am very proud of what my team has accomplished and want to take this opportunity to thank them for the great work they have done – in terms of innovation, new scenarios that we are enabling through a set of rich features and a high focus on quality through the project.  Between support for the latest platforms including Windows Vista, Office 2007, Longhorn Server and the Web, significant improvements in developer productivity and taking the next step forward in our Application Lifecycle Tools journey with VSTS and TFS, I know we have got an awesome product in the making. 

 

The VS Pro and VSTS products are at Beta1.  As part of this we are also putting out CTPs (Community Technology Previews) of the Express SKUs as this is the first time that we are making Express products for “Orcas” available to our customers. 

 

To date, we have seen over a quarter of a million downloads of the various Orcas CTPs which is a testimony to both your excitement for this product and effective feedback we are consistently receiving from you all.  This is really ensuring to help us build the right product for you and our many customers. 

 

Orcas Beta 1 bits for the various different product SKUs will be available at the MSDN Visual Studio Futures site over the next day or so.  The team and I are looking forward to hearing your feedback on Beta1.

 

Namaste!

Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:30 AM by Somasegar

Comments

WF News and Announcements said:

As noted on Soma's blog here , you can now download Beta 1 of Visual Studio "Orcas." This has the new

# April 19, 2007 1:50 PM

WF News and Announcements said:

As noted on Soma's blog here , you can now download Beta 1 of Visual Studio "Orcas." This has the new

# April 19, 2007 1:53 PM

.NET Framework 3 Technology News and Announcements said:

As noted on Soma's blog here , you can now download Beta 1 of Visual Studio "Orcas." This has the new

# April 19, 2007 2:00 PM

Thomas Lebrun said:

# April 19, 2007 2:21 PM

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition said:

Microsoft DevDiv VP "Soma" Somasegar just announced that the team signed off on the bits for VS "Orcas"

# April 19, 2007 2:41 PM

Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition said:

Microsoft DevDiv VP "Soma" Somasegar just announced that the team signed off on the bits for VS "Orcas"

# April 19, 2007 2:42 PM

John West said:

The web site says that it's available on MSDN subscribers downloads, but only the old CTP is showing up currently.  Am I missing something?

# April 19, 2007 2:57 PM

.net DEvHammer said:

The Visual Studio team has signed off on Beta 1 of Visual Studio codename "Orcas". Somasegar has the

# April 19, 2007 3:10 PM

WebLog of Ken Cox said:

Hey folks, time to burn up the bandwidth! Soma has announced the release of Beta 1 of the forthcoming

# April 19, 2007 3:11 PM

David Boschmans Weblog said:

Microsoft VP (Soma) Somasegar announced today on his blog the availability of Visual Studio Code Name

# April 19, 2007 3:11 PM

Peter Ritchie said:

There must be some great refactoring of the Orcas code base, all 8 parts of the Orcas Beta 1 VPC are tagged as 1kb each at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=36B6609E-6F3D-40F4-8C7D-AD111679D8DC&displaylang=en

# April 19, 2007 3:13 PM

kfarmer said:

Peter:

Actually, MS Research has developed a way to encode arbitrarily sized programs as a single number.  Orcas just happens to be a number 64 kilobits long.  We're considering renaming the next VS as Visual OM Navel-Diving Edition. ;)

# April 19, 2007 3:44 PM

Mark Johnston's Developer Experiences said:

Available to MSDN subscribers and coming online to Microsoft.com/downloads shortly. Soma Somasegar (the

# April 19, 2007 3:57 PM

Wooley's Wonderings said:

Today, Soma annouced that they have just shipped Beta 1 of Orcas! The home page for this drop is...

# April 19, 2007 3:58 PM

US ISV Developer Evangelism Team said:

S. Somasegar, Microsoft Corporate VP in the Developer Division, just announced that Visual Studio "Orcas"

# April 19, 2007 4:42 PM

Rob Caron said:

See Soma's blog for the details, and the MSDN Visual Studio Futures site for the bits to download. Orcas

# April 19, 2007 4:53 PM

My VSTS Blog said:

In exciting news, Microsoft have shipped Visual Studio codenamed "Orcas" Beta 1. You can download the

# April 19, 2007 5:23 PM

OPC Diary said:

Somasegar's WebLog : Visual Studio &quot...

# April 19, 2007 6:13 PM

Nick Randolph's .NET Travels said:

Soma has announced that Microsoft has announced that Orcas beta 1 has been signed off. Unfortunately

# April 19, 2007 7:30 PM

The Visual Basic Team said:

Woohoo! Its official , we finally got Orcas Beta1 out the door! We’re very excited to get this release

# April 19, 2007 8:14 PM

neuhawk said:

S.Somasegar,MicrosoftCorporateVPintheDeveloperDivision,justannouncedthat

# April 19, 2007 8:21 PM

shoutor said:

根据微软主管产品开发的VP Somasegar的博客,微软发布了代号名为Orcas的下一代Visual Studio的第一个Beta,同时提供ISO和VPC下载版本。他在Channel 9的采访中对此发布和将来做了详细的讨论:

# April 19, 2007 9:41 PM

Public Sector Developer Weblog said:

Just in case you haven't seen the announcement somewhere else... Soma has all the details here . -Mar

# April 19, 2007 9:48 PM

Rob Caron said:

In response to Peter Richie's comment: To make a long story short, we have to do some workarounds at times to push through large files in the system. In this case, we had to put 1k placeholder files in our download publishing tool, which makes the system think that's how big the download is despite the fact that each of these files are about 700 MB.

# April 19, 2007 10:31 PM

bkchung's WebLog said:

Somasegar's WebLog : Visual Studio "Orcas" and .NET FX 3.5 Beta1 shipped! Visual Studio 2005의 차기버젼인 코드명

# April 19, 2007 10:40 PM

Arpit Jacob said:

Wooo I getting it right away :d

# April 19, 2007 11:50 PM

Christophe Lauer, Blog Edition said:

C'est annoncé sur le blog de Soma Somasegar . Les éditions "Pro" et "Team Suite" sont donc dès à présent

# April 20, 2007 12:24 AM

Vikram said:

Good to hear the news of beta availability of one of the most awaited software in dot net

# April 20, 2007 2:19 AM

RightHand blogs said:

Soma brings us good news , as usual. Orcas beta 1 is available for download . For now the bits are available

# April 20, 2007 2:50 AM

Brad Abrams said:

Wow -- it is great to be done with Orcas Beta1 ... I can't wait to see what the feedback is like... As

# April 20, 2007 3:28 AM

Mike Ormond's WebLog said:

Oooh - now I'm going to have to drive to the office so I can get this quickly... Hopefully in time to

# April 20, 2007 3:58 AM

Ahmed Salijee said:

Check out Soma's blog entry for some background details. Visit the Futures Site for the links. If you

# April 20, 2007 4:56 AM

Erwin said:

New features are nice and welcome, but what i really really would like to see is that vs.net does not consume SOO much memory and performance.

e.g.

- open a .xml (or .xaml) file->takes ages

- use the wizard to create a new (wpf) application ->takes up almost 1 minute taking 90% cpu and when it has finally created the project it consumes 167MB memory and 139MB virtual ram

(Note that this on an average 3Ghz pc with 2GB RAM installed running XP SP2)

# April 20, 2007 7:45 AM

Team System News said:

Somasegar on Visual Studio "Orcas" and .NET FX 3.5 Beta1 shipped! Mary Jo Foley on Microsoft Visual Studio...

# April 20, 2007 8:22 AM

Tim said:

Will there be a new version for the Express versions?

# April 20, 2007 8:37 AM

El Bruno said:

Buenas Interesante noticia que una vez más, llega por 20 canales diferentes , aunque más interesante

# April 20, 2007 9:05 AM

El Bruno said:

Buenas Interesante noticia que una vez más, llega por 20 canales diferentes , aunque más interesante

# April 20, 2007 9:06 AM

El Bruno said:

Buenas Interesante noticia que una vez más, llega por 20 canales diferentes , aunque más interesante

# April 20, 2007 9:06 AM

yuvipanda said:

And, BTW, is the Express CTP based on the same codebase as the Beta1 Orcas codebase or the earlier CTP?

# April 20, 2007 9:07 AM

Samboy Lim said:

Yikes!  I am still getting my head to  wrap .NET 2.0 and here comes .NET 3.5.    When will ever cope up with these stuff?  Anyway, congratulations of the milestone!!!

# April 20, 2007 10:06 AM

Howard said:

Nice to hear it.. I intend to try remapping my application onto LINQ to SQL to see where I can break it..!

# April 20, 2007 11:23 AM

Somasegar said:

Hi Yuvi,

The Express CTP is based on the same codebase as the Beta1 Orcas code-base.  

-somasegar

# April 20, 2007 12:21 PM

Developers, developers and developer tools... said:

Here is the announcement from Soma . This provides a good backdrop for me to update my personal status.

# April 20, 2007 12:29 PM

Rob Caron said:

If you're looking for the ISO images, they're now up on MSDN Subscriber Downloads (Team Suite ISO should be there very soon) and they should also appear as self-extracting, multi-volumes downloads on Microsoft Downloads later today as well.

# April 20, 2007 1:00 PM

Ganesh said:

I am sorry if this is a naive question,anyways here goes

"Is Orcas Base Image required for Orcas Express Edition to run?"

# April 20, 2007 4:20 PM

BCL Team Blog said:

I'm pleased to let you all know that Microsoft released the first beta version of the next version of

# April 20, 2007 5:26 PM

Mark Groves' Blog said:

As Soma announced yesterday the first beta is available for Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects

# April 20, 2007 6:34 PM

VS Team Architect Blog said:

As Soma announced yesterday the first beta is available for Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects

# April 20, 2007 6:37 PM

Microsoft XML Team's WebLog said:

As S. Somasegar announced , Orcas Beta 1 is ready to ship and will be generally available for download

# April 20, 2007 6:50 PM

Howard said:

The profession beta1 ISO is 5.x Gb - how does one burn this to a 4.7Gb DVD ?

# April 21, 2007 4:33 AM

Steve said:

Has DLinq been updated?

Where is update information?

# April 21, 2007 11:48 AM

Raj Pai said:

Hi Steve,

In Orcas Beta 1, LINQ to SQL (previous name DLinq) has enhanced the functionality from the May 2006 LINQ CTP. You can find it in System.Data.Linq namespace in System.Data.Linq.dll. New in this release is that DataContext provides optimized modes for read-only use and serialization . Also new is that DataShape streamlines eager loading capabilities and adds the ability to set queries on relationships.  

Some of this functionality existing in the March 2007 CTP of Orcas, but Beta 1 offers more stability and better integration across the product.  There is a short video describing this functionality at: http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2007/03/05/march-ctp-samples-overview-video.aspx

In addition to the LINQ to SQL updates, we now have IDE support for LINQ features (Intellisense, formatting, quick info/parameter help).  

You can subscribe to Charlie Calvert's RSS feed off the C# dev center (http://csharp.net) to get looped in more team content around the beta.

Thanks!

Raj (C# Group Program Manager)

# April 21, 2007 3:04 PM

Steve said:

Thank you.

Matt Warren spoke on the topic of disconnected objects here

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1179601&SiteID=1

"There is an upcoming feature that automatically databinds LINQ to SQL objects directly to webforms that use these API's to communicate changes back into the DataContext.  There is also a technology in the works that automatically serializes LINQ to SQL objects to other tiers, change tracks and data binds the objects for you on that tier and serializes the objects back, solving the cyclic reference serialization problem and the indescribable schema problem for objects with change sets; which seems to match what many of you are describing. "

I'm wondering if this made the beta 1  ?

Thanks again

# April 21, 2007 3:07 PM

Mohamed Meligy said:

Hey Soma,

Sorry for annoying you as ever! Just asking if you know when the self extract media will be available for all?

I hope the noise I made on March CTP has nothing to do with the delay :D

Speaking of March CTP, is there anything we need to know regarding uninstalling it ? Any tip/trick or even a gotcha ?

Thank you very much,

# April 21, 2007 5:42 PM

Raj Pai said:

Hi Steve,

The two features that Matt referred to are not in Beta 1.  We'll let everyone know when these make it into a drop.

You can also keep an eye out on Scott Guthrie's blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu -- his team is working on the LINQDataSource control that will make it easier to integrate with Web UI.  

Raj

# April 21, 2007 7:16 PM

Steve said:

Thanks again for your response.

I hope the next release has the second part of Matt's quote.  

I don't work in 2-tier environment very often in the real world, so I find that part a requirement.   (I want to use DLinq with a SmartClient that calls WebServices).  I require the object to be passed through my services layer - as my UI knows nothing about the database and never touches it directly.

Thanks again.

# April 21, 2007 8:33 PM

Eric Hu's Weblog said:

微軟副總, Somasegar 已經在他的部落格正式宣布下一代Visual Studio開發工具, 代號 "Orcas", 英文版的 Beta1 已經推出. MSDN 訂戶可以搶先 下載 囉! 不過 Beta1

# April 22, 2007 3:40 AM

Developing adapters using WCF said:

Microsoft released beta version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Code Named "Orcas" and .NET 3.5 on April

# April 22, 2007 6:15 PM

BestSnowman said:

As some of you may have noticed Visual Studio 9 Codename "Orcas" Beta 1 is out in professional and express editions. Naturally being the type that lives on the edge I have been playing aroun ...

# April 22, 2007 10:29 PM

DotnetArchitects.it said:

Today Microsoft signed off on the Beta 1 release for Visual Studio “Orcas” and .NET FX 3.5....

# April 23, 2007 3:44 AM

Paramesh said:

Hi Ganesh, the Express SKUs do not require a base image since there are no VPCs available for Express.  Base images are only required of the VSTS SKUs in the VPC scenarios.  

Did you mean something else?  

# April 23, 2007 2:43 PM

Your Websites, Our Passion! said:

19th of April we shipped Visual Studio Orcas Beta1. See Soma's blog entry : . Downloads are here . This

# April 23, 2007 3:35 PM

dmurillo said:

Are the ISO files for VS Orcas PRO Beta 1 supposed to be available for MSDN Professionnal subscribers?

TIA

dm

# April 24, 2007 9:47 AM

Mubarak Sha said:

I am keeping trying to download Orcas Express CTP but i have not been succeed. Becuase I got this following issued.

Reestablishing the connection with server (attemp 5/5)

any help please.

Thanks in anticipation.

# April 25, 2007 4:42 AM

Mubarak Sha said:

I am keep trying to download Orcas Express CTP but i have not been succeed. Becuase I got this following issued.

Reestablishing the connection with server (attemp 5/5)

any help please.

Thanks in anticipation.

# April 25, 2007 4:42 AM

Visual Studio For Devices said:

Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that we shipped Visual Studio Orcas Beta1

# April 25, 2007 3:17 PM

Paramesh said:

Hi Mubarak, could you please share more info, to help us determine the cause of the failure to download, with Karen Albrecht (Kal@microsoft.com)?

Thanks!

# April 25, 2007 3:35 PM

Aaron Stebner's WebLog said:

As described in this post on S. Somasegar's blog and in other places, Visual Studio codename Orcas beta

# April 25, 2007 10:58 PM

Rob said:

Hi Soma,

Apologies for hijacking your posting about Beta 1 (which will be on download from MSDN as soon as I get home tonight, promise! :) but, I can't work out how to re-open bug #88384 for Visual Studio on the connect site. As the closure referenced your blog, I thought it kinda fitting to come here and let you know that someone's been "mis-using" your post.

The bug I logged has been mis-identified as one in the .net Framework which, unless I'm mistaken (entirely possible!) it isn't. The closer has referenced not making breaking changes, but given that the bug I've logged is Visual Studio generating code that won't compile, I'm at a bit of a loss as to how fixing it could ever be a breaking change.

Once again, sorry for the hijack!

# April 26, 2007 8:30 AM

Adam A said:

I am unable to use the Virtual PC image of Orcas.

After downloading and unpacking, I start up the image, and get this error:

"The parent virtual hard disk has been deleted or moved from its previous location. Please select the new location of the parent virtual hard disk.

E:\VPC\TimeBombedBase\Base01.vhd"

HELP! This is frustrating after downloading 5+ GB, and unpacking the 12GB image.

Thanks

# April 27, 2007 11:12 AM

Carol said:

Hi Adam - I apologize that we have many VPC steps and it sounds like one (step 9 I believe) you might have missed.  Specifically it says that after you download and start to install the image, you will be prompted for the location of the base image.  At this time you should point to the Base01.vhd that you extracted earlier and click OK.

If you still have troubles please email me directly at cscott@microsoft.com

# April 27, 2007 7:09 PM

Paul Andrew said:

Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 and .NET Framework 3.1 released back on April 19 th and you can read about

# April 27, 2007 8:50 PM

Jason Zander's WebLog said:

Last week you saw Soma's announcement about Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 shipping. I'm pleased to announce

# April 27, 2007 9:44 PM

Charles Prakash Dasari said:

Couldn't this blog software be fixed not to show up duplicate comments. It is annoying to see such a UX on a senior VP's blog.

# April 29, 2007 3:28 AM

Atteint de Javascriptite aigüe said:

L'une des principales innovations de Visual Studio Orcas est le support de l'IntelliSense pour JavaScript.

# April 29, 2007 8:22 PM

Satheesh Babu said:

Visual Studio code name Oracas[Beta 1] Released Microsoft released the beta 1 version of its next version

# May 2, 2007 10:07 AM

Aaron Ruckman's Web Log said:

WOOHOO!!! .NET Framework 3.5 Beta1 has been released. Other related blogs: JasonZ's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2007/04/27/net-framework-3-5-beta-1-redist-released.aspx

# May 4, 2007 12:15 PM

Mohit's weblog said:

As you are aware Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta1 just released few days back. Here's Soma's blog http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/04/19/visual-studio-orcas-and-net-fx-3-5-beta1-shipped.aspx

# May 5, 2007 5:09 AM

La treaba! v3 said:

Încă puțin și devin de referință în 2.0 :o) Până atunci, să capitalizez - introduc 180 de secunde de

# May 9, 2007 5:34 AM

BCL Team Blog said:

The main feature of the System.TimeZoneInfo class (previously named System.TimeZone2 in CTPs prior to

# June 7, 2007 4:42 PM

BCL Team Blog said:

System.TimeZoneInfo (currently available as part of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 1 ) contains methods for

# June 11, 2007 4:14 PM

BCL Team Blog said:

One thing we haven't publicized much on this blog yet is a new date time structure we've added

# June 14, 2007 4:48 PM

外部部落格 said:

微軟副總, Somasegar 已經在他的部落格正式宣布下一代Visual Studio開發工具, 代號 "Orcas", 英文版的 Beta1 已經推出. MSDN 訂戶可以搶先

# July 20, 2007 12:16 AM

Joey Liang said:

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Pocket.Info - Mobile 2.0 said:

Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that we shipped Visual Studio Orcas

# February 24, 2008 4:07 PM

BCL Team Blog said:

One thing we haven't publicized much on this blog yet is a new date time structure we've added in .NET

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