Visual Studio Codename Orcas

    The second beta of Visual Studio 2008 was announced today (Codename Orcas, internal version 9.0).
    VS 2008 includes the .NET Framework 3.5 (so far also Beta 2), which means support for many interesting new technologies, among which
    • LINQ is a language extension for data queries.
    • ADO.NET Entity Framework - ORM solution for ADO.NET.
    • Acropolis - building composite Windows applications.
    • Astoria - REST web services (with serialization of data, including in JSON).
    The distribution package includes, in addition to Visual Studio itself, SQL Server Express 2005 (I venture to assume that SQL Express 2008 will be in the final version) and SQL Server Compact 3.5 (for installation on client workstations, tablets and PDAs).
    It is also worth noting that VS 2008 Beta 2 has a Go-Live license, i.e. you can build commercial products and solutions with it today.
    The following versions of Visual Studio are available for download :
    • Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition Beta 2
    • Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Beta 2
    • Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Team Suite Beta 2
    • Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Team Foundation Server Beta 2
    • Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Test Load Agent Beta 2
    • MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
    In addition, you can download virtual machines (in Virtual PC / Server format) with pre-installed Visual Studio Team Suite or with Team Suite and Team Foundation Server.
    The fact that Microsoft has continued the tradition of releasing Express versions of Visual Studio (absolutely free, including for commercial use) cannot but please. The entire set of "expresses" is also available for download .
    PS Let the IMG file extensions not bother you. These are absolutely normal DVD images, they can be mounted in virtual machines without any problems and with all kinds of DVD drive emulators (Daemon Tools, etc.).

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