The first Release Candidate Builds of Microsoft’s next generation development platform and tools are currently available for download for MSDN subscribers. It will be available for public on February 10 (Download Link). Visual Studio Quality Assurance team member, Kirill Osenkov, explained some of the problems with the product:

“During Beta 1 and Beta 2 it became painfully obvious that the new VS had an obesity problem: it was slow, consumed a lot of memory and the worst thing, with enough modules loaded it stopped fitting into the 2GB address space on 32-bit machines…. In a nutshell, with a lot of new functionality a lot more modules were loaded into memory. Besides, we now had to fully load the CLR (Common Language Runtime) and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) at application startup. Moreover, there were all kinds of memory leaks all over the place.”

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In an exciting development for the first ever Tech.Ed in Middle East, Somasegar is comfirmed as one of the keynote speakers. Yes! our very own Soma will be here. He knows how to win the hearts and minds of the software developers and designers. So, what are you waiting for? Register Today for Tech.Ed!

Somasegar is the Senior Vice President of Developer Division at Microsoft. As senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, S. Somasegar leads the teams responsible for providing tools and developer platform technologies targeted at developers, designers and teams involved in software development. This includes the Microsoft .NET developer platform that provides a consistent programming model spanning client, Web, server, device and services platform, Silverlight, the Visual Studio family of products, and Expression Studio.

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Microsoft Pakistan is arranging “Microsoft Community Bootcamp” exclusively for Microsoft Community members. The Bootcamp will provide an excellent opportunity to network with other Most Valuable Professionals, Professional Partners, Student Partners, Community Speakers & Microsoft Pakistan team members and will help in developing a much better understanding of latest Technology & Microsoft Platform. The upcoming plans and initiatives taken for the community members will also be highlighted there.

Event Details:

Date : Friday 30th of October 2009

Time : 3:30 pm till Dinner onwards

Location : Arena, FEC – 01, Habib Ibrahim Rehmatullah Road, Next to Bahria Auditorium, Main Karsaz, Karachi, Pakistan.

Phone : +92 (021) 924 5251 – 54 (4 lines)

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