Downloadarama - VS Orcas March CTP is out!

Wednesday, 28 February 2007 at 21:19 - Blog

It's still February (just!), but the March CTP of Visual Studio "Orcas" has been released.

You can download the installable bits here, alternatively you can download a Virtual PC image here.  The latter is my preferred method for playing with these regular preview releases, as it provides a ready-configured Windows PC with Visual Studio, TFS and all the bits, which is surely far better than wasting time configuring a development box or VPC oneself, then having to repeat the task a month later.

Of course, the downside to this approach is the increased download size, which means my desktop currently looks like this:

 

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#1 avatar John C on 28 Feb 2007 at 14:12

You know, strange though it sounds, it's actually quicker to download them one at a time! ;-)

 

#2 ian avatar Ian on 28 Feb 2007 at 14:25

Yeah, I did know that, but the benefit of setting them all going simultaneously is the lack of further human intervention required.  I'd rather set 10 files downloading and return to the task several hours later than achieve a faster total download but have my evening and thought processes interrupted nine times!

 

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