Posted By: Charles | Apr 19th, 2007 @ 10:43 AM | 50,971 Views | 49 Comments
Orcas Beta 1 has shipped!!! Who better to tell us all about VS Orcas and related technologies than our good friend Soma, VP of the developer division (that's the group that makes all of our development tools and programming languages). Orcas Beta 1 is a major milestone for the next version of VS and related technologies.

Install Orcas (on Vista, baby!) and experience firsthand the plethora of innovations it contains. Did you know you can write VS 2005 applications in Orcas? Did you you know that LINQ is deeply integrated into the Orcas IDE? Did you know that there is now JScript intellisense? Have you played with Cider (design surface for WPF)? Did you know...

As always, your feedback is critical. Soma and team anxiously await learning about your experiences with Orcas.
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littleguru
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Oho! Nice. Smiley Thanks for the video. I'm gonna watch it now.
When are the public ISO images going to be released? Any date?
RoyalSchrubber
RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Great video. Thanks Soma and Charles Smiley

ZippyV
ZippyV
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What about creating a Windows Installer project? Is it still treated as the (I need to watch my language) stephchild or are there actually improvements made (integration with Wix) and can we make patches?
Soma mentioned a blog to check for some details on team systems.  does someone have a url?
SecretSoftware
SecretSoftware
Code to live, but Live to code.
WoW. OMG!! OMG !! OMG !!

Is this real? Tell me its real!


I am feeling light headed  already!


THIS IS EXCITING NEWS. Cant wait to download it and install it and use LINQ.


ITs always good news when you see SOMA!!!


Thanks Charles! As always you rock!.Cool


Now where is that , Post button,,,, ah there.Big Smile


Thanks for sharing them with us.

Btw, I cannot access MSDN Subscriber Downloads.

Is the site down?


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Nice to see such a good interview. Very informative, gives a lot of background but as Soma says the proof of the pudding....
Looking at MSDN Subscriber Downloads now and I can't see Orcas Beta 1 there. How long does it usually take the images to distribute out to Microsofts download farm?
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