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Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Professional Available For Download
News posted August 1st, 2007 by eric
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This beta is intended for early adopters of the Microsoft technology, platform, and tools offerings. It has been designed to let developers try out new technology and product changes, but not to build production systems. This limitation is fully covered in the Microsoft Software License Terms that accompany this beta.
Download link for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
New Features for Mobile Developers
- Unit testing: Visual Studio 2008 enables automated functional testing of managed code (but not of C++ code
) - Latest Device Emulator (version 3.0) allowing you to simulate real world changes in device state – signal dropoff, battery running dead etc...
- Latest .NET Compact Framework (version 3.5) introduces new features like LINQ as well as an implementation of the Windows Communication Foundation enabling device to device and device to server communication over the Exchange Activesync transport
- Designer support for SQL Server 3.5 Compact Edition
- .NET Compact Framework 3.5
- .NET Compact Framework 2.0
- .NET Compact Framework 1.0 (projects will be upgraded to 2.0)
- Windows Mobile 6 (by installing the Windows Mobile 6 SDK Refresh)
- Windows Mobile 5.0
- Pocket PC 2003 (managed and native code)
- Smartphone 2003 (native code only)
- Windows Embedded CE 6.0
- Windows Embedded CE 5.0
