release-candidate

Is there any specification for promoting a release candidate?

I'm wondering this because it's just dawned on me that I've never been involved with a company the provided release candidates before and I see the term being used more and more these days so I would like to be a little more clear on their implications. For anyone who has actually worked for a company who provides RC's before...does the...

MSDN Release Candidate builds (Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2 et al)

Are release candidate builds from MSDN Premium time limited like the public release candidate builds? I cannot find any warnings or notices to that effect within the MSDN Premium subscriber download area, or during installs of the software. Thoughts? ...

Do I need to uninstall RC1 before installing ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RC2?

I have an installation of ASP.NET MVC 2.0 RC1 which I am planning to upgrade to the newly released RC2. This upgrade path isn't mentioned in the release notes. Does anyone know if I can upgrade from RC1 or should I uninstall it first? I'd like to avoid any possible problems with the upgrade so if anyone has already done this and has an...

Windows Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4) Persistence

I've been working with Visual Studio 2010 Beta-2 to get some advanced learning on WF4. Everything was going fine until today, when I un-installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta-2, and installed the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate. My code is complaining that it can’t find the System.Runtime.Persistence namespace that I am using, and also,...