Earlier this month Microsoft released a preview of its design tool for its upcoming Windows Presentation Foundation subsystem, also known as Avalon.

Known as "Cider", Microsoft's Visual Designer for the Windows Presentation Foundation is set to be part of Visual Studio "Orcas," the next major release of Microsoft's Visual Studio tool suite, which is expected to support Windows Vista development. Orcas is slated for release in 2007.

The December CTP (Community Technology Preview) build is the first public release of Cider, company officials acknowledged.

Microsoft posted the Cider CTP code on its Web site for download as part of the Orcas WinFX Development Tools (CTP) release.

The Orcas WinFX development tool CTP build enables developers building WinFX applications to use the final released version of Visual Studio 2005. 

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Source : eWeek