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PDC software - back to CTP hell
Lots of bits coming out of the PDC this week. Most of the bits - Atlas, WinFX, WWF (someone had some fun picking that name), run on VS2005 beta 2. But the LINQ stuff requires VS2005 RC1, as does the latest drop of SQL Server 2005. *Sigh* I can't wait til November 7. Really I can't.
Update - Joseph Cooney commented that LINQ does in fact run on VS2005 beta 2. I swear I saw some MSDN page that said otherwise, but now I'm not finding that page, so perhaps I was suffering from an information-overload-induced hallucination. ;)
Update 2 - Duh, found the page that says the VS2005 RC is required for the LINQ tech previews - the main LINQ project page!
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VMWare 5.5 supports Virtual PC images - sweet!
VMWare just released the beta of VMWare 5.5, which is capable of opening and directly working with Virtual PC images. Very cool! Now that Microsoft has taken to releasing pre-installed VPC images for various products, I was considering installing VPC just to be able to use them. Now I won't need to. Of course, VMWare has had a converter tool for a while, but directly working with VPC images without converting them is much nicer.
It looks like you can't directly change the native VPC image - changes are accumulated in a separate VMWare-specific file. But I think I can live with that limitation. For now, anyway. ;)