Visual Studio Release Date

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Do any of you know when the next version of visual studio will be released. I'm currently using 2003 and I'm thinking about upgrading but I don't want to if there's going to a newer version just round the corner. As far as I can tell there is one in development but it has no specific release date yet.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
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the next version will coincide with the release of .NET 3.0 I would have thought, the release of that SHOULD coencide with the release of Vista. I haven't looked recently but there is probably a pre release version on VS 2006 around at the moment if you're a MS partner.
 
happytechie said:
the next version will coincide with the release of .NET 3.0 I would have thought, the release of that SHOULD coencide with the release of Vista.
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That's wrong, because the .NET Framework 3.0 is already out - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10cc340b-f857-4a14-83f5-25634c3bf043&displaylang=en

I don't recommend anyone install it, incidentally, since it's completely useless at the moment.

The next version of Visual Studio, codenamed "Orcas" is under development (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/future/default.aspx) and there is a beta of sorts available, but I imagine the release is still some way off.
 
according to that .NET 3.0 is just the new libraries for use with the Vista UI stuff? is that all it is? If so there probably won't be a new VS for it, instead it'll be n update to VS2005.

We've only just finished a transition to .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 could upset me :(

HT
 
.NET 3.0 doesn't really deserve that version moniker. It's more like 2.5. It's just the 2.0 CLR with some new managed namespaces (namely WPF, WCF, CardSpace etc).

Orcas (the next Visual Studio release) is still some time away (probably '07 Q4) but it will include all the IDE components for making use of the new namespaces in .NET 3.0 - most particularly WPF. They are doing a lot of work to the VS designer to support WPF, as well as Windows Forms.

Orcas will coincide with the next CLR release (which one Redmond blogger recently hinted could be called .NET 3.5) of course because Orcas will also include enhancements to properly support LINQ - arguably the best new feature in the next CLR.

It's quite wierd because when VS 2005 first came out I found it to be quite buggy (the occasional unhandled exception, usually thrown by the designer). But those niggly bugs I encountered early after the RTM seem to have disappeared :confused: Did Microsoft sneak out some silent hot fix they didn't tell anyone about? Maybe in a .NET security update? :confused:
 
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NathanE said:
.NET 3.0 doesn't really deserve that version moniker. It's more like 2.5. It's just the 2.0 CLR with some new managed namespaces (namely WPF, WCF, CardSpace etc).

Orcas (the next Visual Studio release) is still some time away (probably '07 Q4) but it will include all the IDE components for making use of the new namespaces in .NET 3.0 - most particularly WPF. They are doing a lot of work to the VS designer to support WPF, as well as Windows Forms.

Orcas will coincide with the next CLR release (which one Redmond blogger recently hinted could be called .NET 3.5) of course because Orcas will also include enhancements to properly support LINQ - arguably the best new feature in the next CLR.

It's quite wierd because when VS 2005 first came out I found it to be quite buggy (the occasional unhandled exception, usually thrown by the designer). But those niggly bugs I encountered early after the RTM seem to have disappeared :confused: Did Microsoft sneak out some silent hot fix they didn't tell anyone about? Maybe in a .NET security update? :confused:
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Thanks NathanE, that's cleared up a few issues. So you think there won’t be a newer version than 2005 for at leased a year and version 3.0 of the framework is full compatible with VS 2005?
 
It's hard to say. I mean Microsoft only released the first service pack for VS 2003 in August. That's a 3 year gap between RTM and SP1.

VS 2005 SP1 could still be about a year away.

I can't say I really "need" a SP1. The IDE is faultless for me at the moment. I'm more looking forward to Orcas. Mainly because Orcas RTM signals the point in time when WPF goes from being just a play-thing to a real-life thing :)
 
VS2005 is fine just dont run it with the BETA SP1 on Vista as it wont work, at all. They have release .NEt updates threw the Windows Update site which would have been downloaded and installed, prob with you even noticing,

As far as new verions goes, 2008 is the set relase date for Microsoft Visual Studio "Orcas" 2008 and a CTP can be got here

Visual Studio 2005 your next step from 2003
 
Hi guys,

I know this is an old thread but I wanted to know if there are any further dates for VS 2008? Last time I looked it was due sometime in 2008 but I dont know when...

Cheers

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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