Sunday, April 22, 2007

New version of Visual Studio - code named "Orcas"

The successor of Visual Studio 2005, code named "Orcas" (named after an island - this knowledge is courtesy Wikipedia) had its Beta 1 release on April 19, 2007. This new Visual Studio version is Vista compatible and promises a lot of new features and enhancements and bug fixes (ahem!) as compared to Visual Studio 2005.

I am of course yet to try it out, but some of the features that caught my attention:

1. Support for WPF, WCF and a host of other .NET 3.0 technologies
2. Full integration with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
3. Support for LINQ (Language Integrated Query)
4. Integrated support for ASP .NET Ajax Extensions

One sure thing to check out in the coming days for all the Microsoft Developers out there!

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