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# The Visual Studio 11 Beta is out
- URL: https://blogs.remobjects.com/2012/03/01/3986/
- Published: 2012-03-01T00:02:07.000Z
- Updated: 2018-08-22T06:17:43.000Z
- Author: marc hoffman
- Tags: #Import 2026-08-17 20:17

As most of you have probably already heard, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and the corresponding Visual Studio 11 Beta are out, available for download [here](http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download?ref=blogs.remobjects.com) and [here](http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28975&ref=blogs.remobjects.com), respectively.

I’ve spent the past few hours installing everything in fresh VMs, and the good news is that — just like we expected, of course — our current “Spring 2012” releases integrate with the new beta fine and, from initial testing, all the core functionality seems to me working:

!\[Installing Oxygene on Windows 8\](http://blogs.remobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/InstallingOxygeneonWin8VS11.png) Oxygene projects for .NET and Java open and work fine; the RemObjects SDK and Data Abstract IDE integration is is also working fine:\[!\[Everything working in VS11\](http://blogs.remobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/AllWorkingInVS11.png)\](http://blogs.remobjects.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/AllWorkingInVS11.png) The main thing that sticks out is that our side of things stil looks “too colorful” (if that’s a thing) compared to the new bland ^H^H^H^H^H gray look that the rest of Visual Studio now employs. A lot of graphics work ahead for me, there (and TBH i’m not so sure that it’ll be a change for the better, but what can we do).

Oh, and as a teaser, you can already see the Oxygene Metro templates in the New Project dialog. Those aren’t available in the public build yet (and if they were, they probably *would* need some work to be adjusted to the new beta, as the entire Metro build toolchain was a bit of a messy hack in the DP. But more on that, in a later post).

Enjoy!  
marc

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