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- Microsoft delivers new test build of SQL Server 2008
- On the last day of July, Microsoft made available to testers a new Community Technology Preview CTP build of its SQL Server 2008 database, code-named "Katmai."The July CTP build comes one month after the June CTP. Microsoft is expected to test SQL Server 2008 primarily, if not exclusively, via CTPs,...
- Tags: Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server, Development tools, Database
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Microsoft starts rolling out several tool test releases
- Microsoft tool testers will have lots of new builds to play with this week.Microsoft is expecting to deliver a public Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") Beta 2 for download on Friday, July 27, company officials said. It will roll out simultaneously Beta 2 of the .Net Framework 3.5. Microsoft is expecting...
- Tags: Silverlight (wpf/e), Expression Studio, .Net Framework, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), Development tools
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Near-feature-complete Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 due later this week
- Microsoft plans to deliver the Beta 2 bits of Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") later this week, according to Scott Guthrie, General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division."You'll see Beta2 ship later this week - so only a few more days now," Guthrie posted, in response to a reader comment, on July...
- Tags: Development tools, .Net Framework, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas)
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- SQL Server 2008 gets a due date
- Even though Microsoft is launching SQL Server 2008, code-named "Katmai," in February 2008, the SQL Server 2008 code won't be released to manufacturing until Q2 2008.Until its Worldwide Partner Conference this week, Microsoft officials had said to expect SQL Server 2008 to ship some time in 2008, after a number...
- Tags: Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), SQL Server, Database
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch
- Microsoft announced at its partner conference on July 10 that it will launch Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 together in a single launch on February 27, 2008, in Los Angeles.Microsoft officials have been saying for a few months now that while the company planned to...
- Tags: Database, Development tools, SQL Server, Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), Windows server, Windows Server 2008/ Windows Server Longhorn
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Microsoft delivers test build of new tool for building line-of-biz apps
- At TechEd 2007, Microsoft released a first Community Technology Preview CTP build of "Acropolis," a set of components and tools for building line-of-business, portal-style .Net applications.Acropolis is "part of the '.NET Client Futures' wave of releases, our preview of upcoming technologies for Windows client development," Microsoft officials explained on the...
- Tags: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), TechEd 2007, Development tools, Code names, .Net Framework
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Microsoft's cool naming trend is over
- It was a short but good run: Silverlight, Popfly, Surface. But it's over.At TechEd 2007, Microsoft officials announced the final names of "Katmai," the next version of its SQL Server database, and "Orcas," the forthcoming Visual Studio release.Katmai will be known as "Microsoft SQL Server 2008." And Orcas is "Microsoft...
- Tags: Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas), TechEd 2007, SQL Server, Silverlight (wpf/e), Development tools, Database, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
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- Microsoft makes Visual Studio 2008 more broadly available
- Microsoft has made the latest version of its integrated tool suite available to volume licensees and retail customers as of January 29. Microsoft released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 on November 19, 2007, and made it available at that time to Microsoft Developer Network MSDN subscribers. Today,...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Manufacturing, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-29
- Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as Monday
- Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as MondayLet seeThere are great features coming with VS2008. Let's just hope it will be stable enough. Hard to make a decision. How many of us can actually continue their work aacording to their current plans for the next 6 month (or...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, development tool, server, RTM bit, Beta 2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-18
- Visual Studio 2008 to go gold as soon as Monday
- Microsoft officials said earlier this month that they would release to manufacturing the final Visual Studio VS 2008 code before the end of November. Looks like they're on target. According to a post on the Microsoft Developer Network MSDN Subscriptions blog, MSDN subscribers will be able to...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Visual Studio 2008 to RTM in November
- A few months ago, Microsoft was hedging as to whether it would deliver the final "Orcas" Visual Studio 2008 code in 2007 or 2008. But as of November 5, it's official: VS 2008 is going to be released to manufacturing later in November 2007. The official "launch"...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Jasper
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Codename, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch
- February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launchYour source is wrong. VS 2008 beta 2 isalready available. http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/a/f2ac411f-acf9-42a7-a84f-3efc409bcd6b/VSTS_SelfExtractingJuneCTP.mhtIs this a good idea?Looking at what happened when they did this last time with .NET 2.0, SQL 2005, and VS 2005 - they ended up with huge delays, tons of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, CTP, June CTP, Beta 2, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- Putting lipstick on a cancelled PDC pig
- Microsoft announced late on Thursday May 24 that it has cancelled the Professional Developers Conference PDC that was slated for this October.Microsoft said it had decided to "reschedule" the event to some unspecified future date. The notice of the cancellation is on the Microsoft Developer Network MSDN Web site:"As the...
- Tags: .Net Framework, Corporate strategy, Development tools, Silverlight (wpf/e), SQL Server, Vista, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Making sense of Microsoft's myriad database projects
- Microsoft has a lot of database pilots and projects in the works, among them Katmai, Astoria, Jasper and Volta. But how do they all fit together? Francois Ajenstat, director of SQL Server, explained to me this week how Microsofts growing number of data-programmability pieces will come together...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Database, SQL Server, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Microsoft makes it official: SQL Server 'Katmai' due in 2008
- Microsoft makes it official: SQL Server 'Katmai' due in 2008Visual Studio Orcas and SQL Server KatmaiI'd like to try SQL Server Katmai out when Microsoft releases as a public beta -- sometime around 4Q 2007. I think it would go well with Visual Studio Orcas.too quick....We have not upgraded any...
- Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, server, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Katmai, Visual Studio Orcas, too-quick, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-09
- Jasper: Dynamic languages meet dynamic database development
- Its code name central at Mix 07 in Las Vegas this week. On May 2 at Microsofts Web 2.0 conference, officials are set to put "Jasper," a k a "Dynamic ADO.Net," through its paces. In a session entitled "Rapidly Building Data Driven Web Pages with Dynamic ADO.Net," Microsoft officials...
- Tags: Visual Studio Orcas, SQL Server, MIX07, Development tools, Database, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Microsoft Visual Studio Orcas Beta 1 ready for download
- Microsoft officials said earlier this week that they planned to deliver Visual Studio "Orcas" Beta 1 for download some time in April. On April 19, they made good on their word. Microsoft posted for download Beta 1 of the Professional version of Orcas and accompanying Team System lifecycle-development system...
- Tags: Windows Server Longhorn, Visual Studio Orcas, Vista, Development tools
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Microsoft Visual Studio Orcas: Maybe in 2007, maybe not
- Microsoft is back to hedging about when the company will deliver the final version of "Orcas," the next release of its Visual Studio tool suite. Last year, the Softies were quietly floating a 2007/2008 delivery date for Orcas. Then, in February 2007, Scott Guthrie, the general manager of Microsofts...
- Tags: Code names, Visual Studio Orcas, Development tools, Corporate strategy
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Microsoft: Visual Studio Orcas still on track for 2007
- Microsoft: Visual Studio Orcas still on track for 2007Actually they've only had CTP'sThey haven't done a beta yet, only CTP's, which they have on MSDN. I'm looking forward to it!Well, half right anyhow.There has been no public beta. ;-)Orcas Still on Track?According to Microsoft's Dinesh Kulkarni, the Orcas February...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Orcas February CTP, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
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