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Orcas Beta 1: Initial impressions

Hey, it's only been a few days

I downloaded the installabe ISO image for the Orcas Beta 1. (I'm a bit of a control freak when it comes to developer tools, and I want to know what options are going on my machine).

I'm running Orcas in a VPC at the moment. I hope to let it out of the sandbox in a bit, but I need more experience with it before I'm ready for that.

The first bit of good news is that Orcas Beta 1 runs in Vista (I've got a Vista VPC image running in VPC 2007). That experience went well.

The C# compiler and intellisense are coming along nicely. As I said above, I'm thinking about letting Orcas out of the sandbox and doing more of my daily work using the Orcas bits.

If you're still getting your head around the LINQ concept Charlie Calvert has updated hte LINQ samples for Beta 1. You can find those here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2007/04/19/visual-studio-orcas-beta-1-available.aspx