Visual Studio 2005 – Whidbey Beta 1 Released!

Visual Studio 2005, code named Whidbey is the next release of Visual Studio.

Microsoft has released various pre-release builds of Visual Studio 2005 (Alpha release at PDC and new interim builds - Community Technology Previews). At Tech-Ed Europe on June 29, 2004, Microsoft announced the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1. This Beta 1 release is the most stable pre-release build to date.

Okay. Fine. But what are the new features in Whidbey?


Here is the list for both Whidbey and Orcas (The next version of VS.NET - provide tools support for the next Windows operating system, code name "Longhorn." ):



In General, this release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework will provide improvements and enrichments to the class libraries, common language runtime (CLR), programming languages, the integrated development environment (IDE) and will provide deep support for SQL Server 2005 (formerly referred to as "SQL Server codename Yukon") by enabling developers to write stored procedures (like me!!!) .

You can find two sets of products for this beta release:

• The full Visual Studio 2005 Beta, available to MSDN Subscribers (Just downloaded!) initially; and by order for non-subscribers for a small fee in the near future.
• The Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta Products, available for free public download (Particularly for academic people like students).

I will post more blogs about the new features in Whidbey soon.