News about this week;s RC is mentioned in passing at the top with the post on the Visual Studio Lab Management Team Weblog, It;s not too big a shock, offered that Microsoft officials said late final 12 months to expect the RC of VS2010 in February 2010.
Microsoft execs have acknowledged publicly the issues with VS2010. Just currently, I read a February seven blog publish from a member of the Visual Studio Good quality Assurance team, Kirill Osenkov,
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate, that explained succinctly a number of the challenges with all the item:
“Microsoft is simply feeling the pains of dealing with 20+ yr old code bases. Vista was ultimately a step about the way to Windows seven,
Office Enterprise 2007, plus the same thing may happen here, though I fervently hope not. I have to believe a pattern is developing here, though, and Microsoftwould do effectively to start cleaning up their codebase (as with MinWin along with the Win seven kernel) or starting over from scratch much more often (Windows Mobile 7, we hope).”
One Microsoft partner, who requested anonymity, stated he believed Visual Studio 2010 may end up being just a step along the path toward a additional solid, next-generation VS release (a VS 2010/.Net four.5 or whatever it ends up being called.) The VS folks are facing troubles the Windows crew knows all too nicely, he mentioned, further explaining:
Microsoft is poised to release the near-final Release Candidate (RC) test develop of Visual Studio 2010 later on this week, based on a point out on February eight on the Microsoft development blog. The RC needs to be a whole lot leaner and far better carrying out than the previous check builds, according to other blog posts in the enterprise.
Microsoft also has developed some changes to your first-launch-after-install sequence for VS2010, which testers will see as with the RC.
Microsoft is positioning Visual Studio 2010 as its tool platform to support Windows 7,
Office 2007 Professional Plus, Windows Server 2008 R2, Azure, SQL Server,
Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. The four versions of the suite are slated to include new drag and drop bindings for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation; built-in support for building ASP.NET MVC (Model View Controller) two.0 applications, far better multicore support and UML support, among other new features.
(Microsoft is slated to launch VS2010 on April 12. The last version with the item is expected to ship on or about that date.)
Update: The VS2010/.Net 4 RC is out, as with the night of February eight. Microsoft is now confirming it. MSDN subscribers can get it immediately, and also the public, as of February 10.
Microsoft subsequently formed a virtual “Perf SWAT” group to focus on remedying overall performance, memory consumption and design-time stress with VS2010, Osenkov noted. He said that group has produced progress. From his blog publish:
“The superior news is that we;ve made tremendous progress since Beta two and have introduced the item into a much superior state: it is very much faster, additional responsive, takes up significantly less memory and we also hope to have eliminated all significant known memory leaks. A common complaint was that VS was growing in memory during usage and you had to restart it after a certain time. Best now we hope that you simply can mostly keep Visual Studio open for days (even weeks) without having to restart it.”
“During Beta one and Beta 2 it became painfully obvious that the new VS had an obesity problem: it was slow, consumed a lot of memory and the worst thing, with enough modules loaded it stopped fitting into the 2GB address space on 32-bit machines…. In a nutshell, with a good deal of new functionality a good deal more modules had been loaded into memory. Besides,
Windows 7 Home Premium Key, we now had to fully load the CLR (Common Language Runtime) and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) at application startup. Moreover,
Office Professional 2007, there were all kinds of memory leaks all over the place.”
The RC create of VS2010 wasn't originally component of the VS2010 improvement plan. Microsoft officials said late last yr they;d decided to add one much more public check build in order to be able to iron out some of the performance-related issues testers were reporting with Microsoft;s subsequent edition of its development instrument suite. I;ve heard and obtained fairly a number of complaints about the Beta 2 version of VS2010.