Entity Framework Beta 2 & the 1st Entity Framework Tools CTP Released!

Read more at the ADO.NET team blog.

Acropolis August CTP (VS 2008 Beta2 Refresh) Release available now

Now you can download Acropolis August CTP (VS 2008 Beta2 Refresh) Release. As the team writes on their blog "This release is mainly an update so that our customers can continue to evaluate “Acropolis” with the latest VS 2008 Beta".

Rosario Aug 2007 CTP

You can download a VPC image of Rosario now. "Visual Studio® Team System Code Name “Rosario” is the version of Team System that follows Visual Studio Team System 2008. This release provides the earliest public glimpse of the work in progress on the next generation of Team System." I have just installed Orcas Beta 2... Hmmm.... The new technology isn't new so very long.

Acropolis July CTP avalible

The new July CTP for Acropolis is now avalible. Read more on the Acropolis Team Blog.

ADO.NET Entity Framework June 2007 CTP now available

The ADO.NET team was just released the "Entity Framework June 2007 CTP". They write this about what the release includes "This CTP contains updates to the ADO.NET Entity Framework since the Visual Studio Codename "Orcas" Beta 1 release, including changes in Object Services, Query, Entity Client, and the Entity Data Model Wizard in Visual Studio.". Read more about this (and read the installation instruction) at the ADO.NET team blog and read Danny Simmons list about the changes of Entity Framework.

Validation Application Block - Enterprise Library 3.0

The new validation application block in enterprise library 3.0 could be really cool. Check out David Haydens short presentation. There are a short presentation of Visual Studio Integrated Configuration Editor Support as well. It will be interesting to follow this in the future. A february 2007 ctp of ent lib 3.0 is avalible here. It seems that the RTM will be released in early april.

The next release of the web client software factory will include support for the validation block.

Test the new Visual Studio Orcas

Download a pre-release of the march 2007 CTP of Orcas. This is a virtual PC image you can download, un pack and try on your computer. You can check out the new visual studio with Team System. This CTP includes LINQ, C# 3.0, Team Foundation Server, Team Developer and much more.