下一代Visual Studio(Orcas)九月CTP开放下载

The highlights of this CTP include:

Improvements on the widely acclaimed Visual Studio 2005 product set

Significant investments in improving product quality

LINQ to Objects API

LINQ to Objects API supports queries over any .NET collection, such as
arrays and Generic Lists. This API is defined in the System.Query
namespaces inside System.Core.dll. Click here for more details about LINQ.

Partial C# 3.0 Language Support: This CTP implements some of the new language features of C# 3.0

Local variable type interface

Lambda expressions

Object initializers

Partial C# 3.0 IDE Support: In addition to the C# 3.0 language features there is partial IDE support

Colorization and New Keywords in Completion List

Edit and Continue Rude Edit Detection

VSTS Improvements in load & unit testing such as unit test for devices

Device development improvements

VSTS integration

Access and modify device security configuration from the IDE

Enables developers to build and debug a Windows Vista Application

Enables Visual Studio Tools for Office developers to build document-level customizations for Word and Excel 2007

Enables eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 developers to use Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” to build their existing applications

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

比起.Net Framework 3.0, 这是一个全新的平台, 包括CLR和BCL都是新的, 不过这个版本只是一个Virtual PC的镜像, 需要在Virtual PC运行..
强烈建议先看下载页面的安装Instruction.

下载页面:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82243606-d16d-445c-8949-9ee8c10cda2e&DisplayLang=en

P.S.文件有3G多大.....