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 ...

Microsoft has yet to post a beta build of Visual Studio "Orcas." But the product is still slated to ship in 2007, according to Scott Guthrie, General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division. Guthrie ...

Yesterday, Microsoft updated the MSDN to show the new release schedule for a number of Visual Studio products including Visual Studio "Orcas" and Visual Studio "Rosario." Rosario is the next major ...

Although Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 software development platform is part of a February 2008 multiproduct launch, the company intends to ship it by the end of 2007, said S. “Soma” Somasegar, ...

One of the new features that will be part of Visual Studio 2008, previously code-named Orcas, is the ability for developers to target different frameworks from within the upcoming integrated ...

I got fairly excited about the contents of the January 2007 community technology preview of the next version of Visual Studio: the ADO.NET Entity Framework; LINQ; XLINQ; integration between ADO.NET ...

As a developer you probably spend large amounts of time every day working with Visual Studio; but have you taken the time to make it right for you, to learn about all the features it has? This thought ...

It's been three years and a whole lot of betas and CTPs, but the next version of Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE is finally here. As reported by RDN Senior Editor Kathleen Richards, Visual ...

Microsoft has delivered to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. Probably the biggest innovation in this release is Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), but there are also a number ...