Ajaxus place on the net

Last night I had the chance(meaning time) to download and install the new Beta1 release. Here will share some of my first impressions. Actually I played with WebDeveloper Express version and that one left me with very nice impression.

After clean install on my quite old PC seems very light and not memory consuming. I started new ASP.NET project and wrote some lines. What is obvious is that in the control toolbox on the left you can find all old set of controls as weel as some new ones like AJAX controls. Havent chance to play and investigate much but I have noticed nice and new XML controls.

That Express edition comes with lightweight web server which runs aside IIS, so you dont need to upgrade it or make any configuration there.

While writting code new intellisense made me nice impression as well as the ability to omit function parameters which arent used in the function body.

Stay tooned for more after the weekend.

Here is a link to updated Visual Studio Orcas Samples
Here is a link to Visual Web Developer Orcas Express Edition

Yes, its here! Well currently not final but it will show you the way. Many new features are planed to ship with the final release. So far some of the new features are:

- Intellisense Everywhere
- Relaxed Delegates
- Multi-Targeting

Here is the download page
Here is the link to a group blog from members of the VB team

The next version of VB .Net adds Xml as a built in data type using the new LINQ to XML API. As a built in data type, VB 9.0 provides the ability to create XML using XML Literals and to query XML documents using XML properties. This webcast contains a demo by David Schach, the lead developer in this project, of creating a program to share pictures over the internet.
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