Буквально пару дней назад стал доступным январский CTP Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas". На этот раз в двух вариациях:
в качестве образа VirtualPC и
в качестве self-extracting install.
Основные нововведения:
* Extended, more powerful data APIs with the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to ADO.NET
* C# 3.0 Language Support: This CTP implements all of the C#3.0 language features from the May LINQ CTP
* VB 9.0 Language Support: This CTP implements all of the VB 9.0 language features from the May LINQ CTP
* LINQ to Objects API
* ClickOnce improvements
* Runtime and design-time support for Office 2007 (including Outlook 2007)
* A trace listener that logs event to ETW, event tracing for Windows in Vista
* A new numeric type that provides support for very large numbers (Beyond the range of In64)
* LINQ over XML (XLinq)
Качаем?