{"id":5164,"date":"2007-02-28T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/webdev\/2007\/02\/28\/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available\/"},"modified":"2007-02-28T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T15:15:00","slug":"visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/visual-studio-orcas-march-ctp-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio Orcas March CTP is available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The March CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio Orcas&nbsp;is now available&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/aa700831.aspx\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; You can&nbsp;either install it (side-by-side with VS 2005) or use via a VPC image.&nbsp; This is the first CTP that contains significant web tools feature enhancements &#8211; the new HTML\/Webforms Designer, Jscript Intellisense and Debugging, LINQ to&nbsp;SQL Designer&nbsp;and Multitargeting being some of the key features.&nbsp; You can learn more about these features from <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/scottgu\/archive\/2007\/02\/08\/my-first-look-at-orcas-presentation.aspx\">this<\/a> blog post by Scott as well as <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.asp.net\/thread\/1592384.aspx\">this<\/a> forum post by Jim.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage all of you to try out the CTP and provide us early feedback that will help shape the rest of this release.&nbsp; We have created a new <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.asp.net\/1112\/ShowForum.aspx\">forum<\/a> for you to post your questions and suggestions regarding the feature set.&nbsp; Team members will be regularly reading the forum posts and will respond to you.&nbsp; Bugs can be submitted <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\/feedback\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; We look forward to getting as much feedback as possible in order&nbsp;to build the best product for you!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bash<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The March CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio Orcas&nbsp;is now available&nbsp;here.&nbsp; You can&nbsp;either install it (side-by-side with VS 2005) or use via a VPC image.&nbsp; This is the first CTP that contains significant web tools feature enhancements &#8211; the new HTML\/Webforms Designer, Jscript Intellisense and Debugging, LINQ to&nbsp;SQL Designer&nbsp;and Multitargeting being some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[4,7265,31,7273,147,7267,7268],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspnet","tag-net","tag-announcements","tag-asp-net","tag-orcas","tag-visual-studio","tag-vwd","tag-web"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The March CTP (community technology preview) of Visual Studio Orcas&nbsp;is now available&nbsp;here.&nbsp; You can&nbsp;either install it (side-by-side with VS 2005) or use via a VPC image.&nbsp; This is the first CTP that contains significant web tools feature enhancements &#8211; the new HTML\/Webforms Designer, Jscript Intellisense and Debugging, LINQ to&nbsp;SQL Designer&nbsp;and Multitargeting being some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}