"Rosario" November CTP

Three weeks after releasing Visual Studio 2008, Jeff Beehler announced the release of "Rosario" November CTP, the next version of Visual Studio.
I guess Microsoft product teams does not get any rest. Neither do we, because of them :)

Below are the set of features that this CTP includes. My favorite ones are the Historical Debugger and support for Windows Installer XML (WiX) technology!!! More on the first one - in some other post.

We are living in interesing times...

Architecture Edition

• Visualizing Interaction Sequences between Service-Oriented applications


• Using the Distributed System Designers and the Web Service Software Factory to build


• WCF applications


• Designing and Visualizing Interactions between classes

Development Edition

• Simplify Code Analysis rule selection with Rule Sets


• Find and fix a bug using the historical debugger


• Identify the test impact of code changes


• Find a bug on a separate machine using the standalone debugger

Test Edition

• Planning a testing effort


• Executing manual test cases

Team Foundation Server

• Managing user stories with the Agile Process


• Managing features with the CMMI Process

Download documentation only here.