Friday, September 29, 2006

Visual Studio "Orcas" alpha

by fmarguerie via Fabrice's weblog on 9/29/2006 6:16:00 PM

The first CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" is available for download. The good news: it's available as a virtual machine!

Partial Linq support is in there, but nothing close to what we get with the May CTP of Linq.
Here are some of the included features:

• LINQ to Objects API (in the new System.Core assembly)
• Partial C# 3.0 support (local variable type interface, lambda expressions, object initializers)
• Partial C# 3.0 IDE support
• Partial VB 9.0 support (local variable type inference, Option Infer switch)
• Device development improvements
• NET Framework improvements such as:
• New managed add-in model enables developers to add a version-resilient extensibility model to their products.
• Support for time zone conversion, enumeration and serialization, including cases where Daylight Saving Time rules change over time.
• Reflection in Partial Trust, enabling sand box scenarios for all applications that depend on these features.
• The ability to control the garbage collector’s latency mode.
• Improved CLR ThreadPool micro-performance and throughput for worker and IO completion. 

All the details are provided on the download page.

Cross-posted from http://linqinaction.net