PDC software - back to CTP hell

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Lots of bits coming out of the PDC this week. Most of the bits - Atlas, WinFX, WWF (someone had some fun picking that name), run on VS2005 beta 2. But the LINQ stuff requires VS2005 RC1, as does the latest drop of SQL Server 2005. *Sigh* I can't wait til November 7. Really I can't.

Update - Joseph Cooney commented that LINQ does in fact run on VS2005 beta 2. I swear I saw some MSDN page that said otherwise, but now I'm not finding that page, so perhaps I was suffering from an information-overload-induced hallucination. ;)

Update 2 - Duh, found the page that says the VS2005 RC is required for the LINQ tech previews - the main LINQ project page!

3 Comments

This is driving me nuts too. But it's okay, the release is not that far away.

Vurg - Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:52:00 PM

LINQ stuff that I played around with ran fine on VS 2005 Beta 2 - Quote from the LINQ Readme:

"The prototype C# compiler and the samples below require one of the following:

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

Visual C# 2005 Express Beta 2"

JosephCooney - Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:56:00 PM

The LINQ main page was incorrect. The preview works against beta 2. There will be an update to the preview that works against RTM.

Matt Warren - Sunday, October 9, 2005 9:14:00 PM

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