Some Whidbey Information from MS

[Edneeis]

Here is an article that covers some of the small but cool changes that will be in the next version of Visual Studio.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/wh...2004_intro.asp

[nswan]

how can you get hold of an alpha/beta of Whidbey?
I'm going to a talk about it soon this month that i'm looking forward to.

[Kasracer]

Originally posted by nswan
how can you get hold of an alpha/beta of Whidbey?
I'm going to a talk about it soon this month that i'm looking forward to.

It's in ALPHA right now and some people got it from some special conferance or something.

I'd imagine it will go Beta soon, maybe Microsoft will finally let me Beta test something (it's been a while since I tested sp4).

[Memnoch1207]

You can only get the Alpha Version of Whidbey if A) you attended the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in Oct. 2003 or B) You are an MSDN subscriber.

[Memnoch1207]

I am really looking forward to Yukon (New SQL Server)...It is supposed to have the .NET CLR built-in, so (they say) you can write User Defined Functions in SQL Server in either T-SQL, VB.NET, C#, etc...

[axion_sa]

Originally posted by Memnoch1207
I am really looking forward to Yukon (New SQL Server)...It is supposed to have the .NET CLR built-in, so (they say) you can write User Defined Functions in SQL Server in either T-SQL, VB.NET, C#, etc...

It does, offhand it also has recursive queries, exception handling (try...catch), native Pivot/Unpivot support

[hellswraith]

Originally posted by Memnoch1207
You can only get the Alpha Version of Whidbey if A) you attended the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) in Oct. 2003 or B) You are an MSDN subscriber.

Is it up on the MSDN site to download now? I am not at work so I can't check.

[abhijit]

IMHO, Yukon seems to be following Oracle. They had built in support for java classes and now MS will have built in support for .NET objects.