March 2007 Orcas CTP Available

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# ulu said on March 1, 2007 5:50 AM:

Dear sirs,

Do I have to download this CTP to be able to use the new LINQ update? Is it possible to somehow incorporate it (update) into the existing (2005) IDE?

Another question, not related to this CTP. I would really like to download the VS service pack, but I have the latest (standalone) LINQ CTP installed, will the LINQ features be lost when I get the compiler from the SP?

Thanks

ulu

# Bryan St. Amour said on March 1, 2007 11:51 AM:

So... what types of cool new Intellisense features can we look forward to? I'll probably check it out later, but it would be nice to see what I have to look forward to.

# VBTeam said on March 1, 2007 2:15 PM:

Ulu,

In order to access the latest VB LINQ updates you have to do download the Orcas CTP. Also, the VS 2005 service pack will replace the May 2006 LINQ bits.

# rogerj said on March 1, 2007 6:49 PM:

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# Dan Mikkelsen said on March 2, 2007 8:06 PM:

How will the speed be for this Visual studio version?

VS2005 was rather slow, both the designer and the compiled program, and not much have been made to improve this.

Will the new version be optimized for speed or has this been skipped?

(It would be nice if there would be a version more like vb6 where the speed was tremedous, i have several times used vb6 instead of vb2005 for that matter)

# Chris Mayo said on March 2, 2007 11:33 PM:

Dan,

Thanks for the question about perf in the next version of Visual Basic, "Orcas".  

We've taken a lot of customer feedback on the perf of Visual Basic 2005.  We added a number of perf improvements to SP1 and integrated further improvements to Orcas.

Our goal is to provide Whidbey or better performance in the key performance areas of Orcas.  Those key areas are:

Compiler Throughput

IDE Responsiveness

Debugger Performance

If you have feedback on the performance of Visual Basic 2005 or would like help with a perf issue, please email me at vbperf@microsoft.com.  

Thanks.

Chris Mayo

Visual Basic Program Manager

# Jim Wooley said on March 3, 2007 10:23 PM:

Any chance to get "Join" as a query expression in the next VB release? the current implementation is so 1982.

# Scott Wisniewski said on March 4, 2007 12:36 AM:

Jim,

Yes. Join will be supported in Vb 9.0.

-Scott Wisniewski

# Blue2 said on March 5, 2007 10:04 PM:

I found that in the "About" Box , C# 's name has changed to "C# Orcas" ,but then name of VB still is "VB 2005" . Why ?

# Blue2 said on March 5, 2007 11:43 PM:

In the latest VB CTP of Orcas, I can't write comments after a line-continuation character yet !

For example:

Dim x As New Person( _

  "Jason" , _       ' Name

  40 , _              ' Age

  Sex.Male, _      ' Sex

  "I am a student.")  'Remarks.

The codes above is unalowd in the latest VB CTP.

Damn! I eagerly want to comment after a line-continuation char !

# VBTeam said on March 6, 2007 1:45 PM:

Blue2,

The issue with the "About" Box is a bug. Thanks for reporting it!

Also, thanks for the feedback with regards to line continuations and comments. I will forward your request over to our language design team.

-Scott

# Meftah Tayeb said on March 7, 2007 3:04 AM:

Please Enswer Me:

What Is The Orcas CTP ?

Visual Basic Developper, Please Contact Me In MSN:

My Emails:

VSDevX86@hotmail.fr

SQLSRVX86@hotmail.com

Thank You !

# John Smith said on March 12, 2007 9:44 PM:

I installed the vpc version of orcas march ctp.

One anoying thing I have is the cursor is mssing is code window.

Any fix?

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