Microsoft this week will reaffirm its promise to have Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 finished by the end of the quarter and its intent to have "Avalon" and "Indigo" subsystems available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 in the near future. At the VSLive show in San Francisco, Microsoft will issue another Community Technology Preview of Beta 2. The CTP will offer "more team system components" as well as performance improvements to the IDE, Microsoft said.
Even as sources say Beta 2 won't likely be in developers' hands until April, Microsoft insisted beta 2 code will ship in the first quarter. In the interim, another CTP with team system features will be released to placate developers restless for Visual Studio 2005. Microsoft product manager John Montgomery acknowledged that only one of the
team system components made it into Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 last year.
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