Orcas 10-2006 CTP

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Orcas 10-2006 CTP

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" - October Community Technology Preview (CTP)

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Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" delivers on Microsoft’s vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality rich user experiences. This new version enables any size organization to rapidly create more secure, manageable, and more reliable applications that take advantage of Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System. By building these new types of applications, organizations will find it easier than ever before to capture and analyze information so that they can make effective business decisions.

This download is the October 2006 Community Technology Preview of Microsoft Visual Studio Code-Named “Orcas”.

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ADO.NET 3.0 Advancements

Developers can build can create scripts as actual programs –instead of VBS scripts- that are still completely self-contained in a single file and can be trivially modified, compiled and executed in any environment that has .NET installed.
eSQL language support enables developers to build applications that provide users with an ad-hoc query capability.

A new date time data structure that can specify an exact point in time relative to the UTC time zone.

New IO types that expose almost all pipe functionality provided by Windows.

Pipes can be used to achieve inter-process communication (IPC) between any process running on the same machine, or on any other windows machine within a network. We’ve added managed support for both anonymous pipes and named pipes.

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Some interesting highlights in this release...