Last week Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 with all new branding. The team editions have been replaced by Ultimate and Premium editions. Project Fuze now runs on both Ultimate and Premium editions of Visual Studio 2010. You can download the latest beta refresh of Project Fuze from the www.teamfuze.net download forum. In the coming weeks the beta will be refreshed with some great new features like unit testing of functions and stored procedures.

– the TF Team

To see this in HD, please visit YouTube directly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-80neSJroIQ

Ready to upgrade to the latest & greatest? We’ve been hard at work for many weeks now, preparing a refresh for the Project Fuze beta. I’m pleased to report that it’s finally ready to go.

You can download the update here: http://teamfuze.net/ann.jspa?annID=261.

Enjoy (and let us know what you think)!

Take a second to visit the MSDN Channel 9 community and watch the latest demo. Thanks a lot to Microsoft for the invitation!

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-30-Database-Schema-Extensibility/

–Daniel

Now that the beta is live, here’s a video introduction:

The beta is LIVE!!
It seems like just yesterday that we began working on Project Fuze, the DSP for Oracle database support in Visual Studio Team System 2010… maybe that’s because I didn’t have to write the code! Anyway, after many, many months in our super-secret development lab we’ve finally finished the beta version! The public beta is now available on TeamFuze.net – make sure that you visit Microsoft’s site for more information on their public beta of Visual Studio Team System 2010 since you’ll need to have that running in order to try out Project Fuze.

Your participation is key!
We want to do everything possible to make sure that Project Fuze will deliver an excellent experience and make you more productive in Visual Studio Team System; we can’t do that without your consistent, honest feedback. So please join the forums and post often! We’re listening!

By now most of the .Net community is well aware that .Net 4.0 and VS2010 will ship with System.Data.OracleClient deprecated. This means your .Net application will build with warnings. BUT, it will still build and work, and Microsoft is still providing critical patch support for this Oracle .Net provider.

I’ve fielded a number of questions about this move and what impact it may have on the Oracle Database Schema Provider we are building for VS2010. The short answer is that it will have no impact. While our DSP intially relied on System.Data.OracleClient we’ve already planned to move to ODP.Net in order to take advantage of the richer feature set. ODP.Net and other 3rd party providers will be able to keep pace with Oracle releases better than a library that ships with .Net(which would be coupled with .Net releases rather than Oracle releases).

So overall, this isn’t at all as detrimental as it may seem on the surface. In the end any software product that moves to ODP.Net or a 3rd party provider will benefit from increased features and release timing.

Daniel Wood.

Today’s been a busy day. http://www.facebook.com/pages/TeamFuze/73998739546

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