in: infoworld
Microsoft not only plans to release Orcas, a major upgrade to its Visual Studio software development platform, by the end of the year but also plans to follow up Orcas with the Rosario release of the platform a year later, a Microsoft official said on Monday.
..."We're building a bunch of tools to help you make sense out of everybody's work," Sridharan said. Testing tools and quality assurance capabilities will be focuses of Rosario, as will advanced code analysis, he said.
Rosario is being developed in parallel with Orcas, Sridharan said. Of particular importance to Rosario will be its inclusion of such groups as a user's IT personnel and business analysts in the application development mix.
"Rosario will help integrate the larger business," said Michael Leworthy, Microsoft Visual Studio product manager.
A community technology preview of Rosario is due around the same time as the general-release version of Orcas. A beta release of Orcas is planned for the May timeframe; a community technology preview shipped this month. Orcas features innovations like the additions of Language Integrated Query technology and the ability to use refactoring with Visual Basic for improved developer productivity.
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LINQ brings data programming and data access closer to the programming, Sridharan said. "It makes it a lot easier to programmatically access data."
With the Orcas release of Team Foundation Server, developers can annotate code and share comments inside code with other developers, who can see who edited which code.
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