Before I begin this post I must say that I do not have any inside information about the release of Visual Studio 2010 or .NET 4. The post is composed of 100 % speculation and based on information that has already been made publicly available.
I am pretty interested to know the release date for Visual Studio 2010, and .NET Framework 4.0, so I asked around but no one could tell me anything. So I decided to do some research as to the release dates for Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 based on the release of their Beta releases. I came up with the following table.
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Beta 1 |
Beta 2 |
RTM |
Beta 1 - Beta 2 |
Beta 2 - RTM |
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Visual Studio 2005 |
43 Weeks |
29 Weeks |
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Visual Studio 2008 |
14 Weeks |
17 Weeks |
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Visual Studio 2010 |
11/30/2009 |
05/09/2010 |
28 Weeks |
20 Weeks |
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Yellow cells are 100% based just on the averages of the two previous versions |
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When Visual Studio 2005 came out there were huge changes. I think this is why the amount of time between Beta 1 and Beta 2, and between Beta 2 and RTM were so much longer then their corresponding periods in Visual Studio 2008. I think for the release of Visual Studio 2010 we are going to be somewhere between the two time periods. So maybe a decent indicator would simply be the average of the two. This is what I used to come up with the cells that are shaded in yellow. I'm sure this will be off but hopefully by weeks and not months!
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
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