Microsoft delays Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft has announced that they need more time to test their Visual Studio 2010 programing workbench suite and that its launch will be delayed until sometime later in 2010.
The delay also includes the release of .NET Framework 4, a closely associated product. Microsoft said that they are planning an additional release candidate (fancy name for a test version) in order to clear up some problems. The Visual Studio team is now said to be focusing on some performance issues that have cropped up in the latest version of the product, according to an article in The Register. The senior vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, Sosa Somasegar, said in the blog post that announced the delay, “As you might have seen, we significantly improved performance between Beta 1 and Beta 2. Based on what we’ve heard, we clearly needed to do more work.”
The final release build was scheduled to be done in late March of 2010, but with the need for an additional candidate, there is no way that is going to happen. Somasegar’s blog post says that the additional work would push the introduction off “a few weeks.” The problems are said to be related to a number of areas, as Somasegar says there are issues “in a few key scenarios including virtual memory usage.” It sounds like these could be serious issues that could take some significant time to resolve.
The new version of Visual studio is eagerly awaited. It contains loads of new features and improvements, including Windows 7 and SharePoint 2010 tools, drag-and-drop binding with Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation, and adding Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) for programming with scripting languages, and support for parallel programming. In addition, the number of SKUs in the 2010 version of the code has been cut from nine to four, making life a little easier for programmers, who will be happy when the wrinkles are ironed out and the new version is released.
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