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Whidbey Beta 1 is on the way!

After couple of months intense work, we are almost done with Whidbey Beta 1. Check out these new features related to smart device programing!

- Create C#/VB.Net for Pocket PC 2003 and Windows CE (target .Net Compact Framework V2.0) and SmartPhone 2003 (target .Net Compact Framework V1.0).

- Better managed designer support. Controls are now WYSIWYG with device specific appearance. Custom control, inheritted form and user control are supported.

- Platform switching and unsupported control conversion. You can switch the project between platforms. Designer will help you detect and convert controls that are not unsupported on a platform.

Stay tuned!

Published Sunday, June 13, 2004 12:00 AM by xinyan

Comments

 

William Luu said:

Beta 1? Wow!

That means it's not too long to go for the final release later in the year/early next year, right? :)

Can't wait!
June 13, 2004 2:04 AM
 

Kyle Tinsley said:

Great, Can't wait!! Will this go to the public during TechEd Europe?
June 13, 2004 8:06 AM
 

Neil Cowburn said:

William,

VS usually goes through a much longer beta cycle than other products for obvious reasons. Let's just say that VS 2005 will be released when its ready :)
June 13, 2004 12:15 PM
 

Xin said:

Kyle,
I am not sure if this will go public during TechEd Europe. It will be part of MSDN for sure.
Thanks
Xin
June 13, 2004 2:19 PM
 

Joku said:

William, I think in some other msdn blogs there was mentioned that there will be beta 2, likely in the late fall. Reasonable timeframe would then be late spring - summer 2005.
June 13, 2004 3:58 PM
 

William Luu said:

Joku, Spring-Summer of 2005, being from the other side of the world (Australia) my first thought was you meant October/November/December (that type of time frame) 2005.

But then it hit me, you're probably from USA. So that'd be my Autumn/Winter (So, May/June/July).

Sorry, just an excited developer :)
June 14, 2004 8:37 PM
 

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