Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild! (Amanda Silver)

Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 Released!

Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:24:02 GMT

If you haven't heard, Orcas Beta 1 has been released! Amanda's got a great post on the Visual Basic Team

Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 Released!

Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:36:48 GMT

If you haven't heard, Orcas Beta 1 has been released! Amanda's got a great post on the Visual Basic Team

re: Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild!

Tomohiro Kinugawa — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:21:16 GMT

"Multi-Targeting" looks extreamly cool!

And "Relaxed Delegates" , it is nice! - I don't neet to write "not-used" event arguments any more.

re: Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild!

jwooley — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:09:40 GMT

Amanda, Great job for you and your team. I was hoping beta 1 would include lambda's, nullables and joins since they were included in the VB9 documentation posted in February. FWIW, I was able to take a solution from March and upgrade it to Beta1 with no issues. Keep up the good work.

re: Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild!

renzhe — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:46:16 GMT

GREAT!!! EXCITING!!! CRAZY!!!

re: Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild! (Amanda Silver)

Daniel — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:01:01 GMT

I think it's great the way Microsoft is releasing these as both ISOs and VPCs, but how about a bittorrent option? Seems like this would be friendlier to MS bandwidth as well...

re: Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild! (Amanda Silver)

renzhe — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:04:04 GMT

I downloaded and installed the Orcas Beta1. However, I almost can't find any dirrerence from the March CTP on it.

And "Intellisense Everywhere" is still not perfect.

Many very common OOP keywords, such as "Public, Private, Class, Inherits, Implements, NotInheritable. NotOverridable ... " still need MANUAL input :-(.

Refactor still not appeared in VB :-(

Perhaps Beta2 and the final version will not be too far off.

If such a trend continues, I can not find any reason to continue to use the VB

I am very disappointed, I meltdown!

Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta 1

Tim Ng — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:34:01 GMT

I'm sure by now the news the Orcas beta 1 has been released is old news; but Amanda's got the scoop on

re: Visual Basic "Orcas" Beta1 is in the wild! (Amanda Silver)

VBTeam — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:05:53 GMT

Hi renzhe --

Yes, very little has changed for VB between the March CTP and Beta 1. The Visual Basic team has been busily working on Nullable Types, Lambda Expressions, and more intrinsic query operators for the Beta2 product.

Your comments regarding Intellisense Everywhere were anticipated -- stay tuned for Beta2!

"In the box" support for Refactoring will not appear in Orcas. However, we still believe that the DevExpress support for VB refactoring is very good and we're working closely with them to ensure that you get a great Refactoring experience as you did with the VB 2005 product. (BTW, you can download this for free at:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms789083.aspx)

I hope you'll be very pleased with the product when it's feature-complete!

-amanda

Going Occasionally Connected with Orcas

Nick Randolph's .NET Travels — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:44:23 GMT

Visual Studio vNext (aka Orcas) has a number of features that is set to make building occasionally connected

Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 (Amanda Silver)

The Visual Basic Team — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:24:19 GMT

Yesterday I promised to post about the hidden gems in Visual Basic and Visual Studio 2008 that you haven’t