Today I was listening to a Microsoft internal presentation and they kept referring to codenames of our Visual Studio products. This aspect of the presentation was not secret by any means as all of these names are very much public knowledge, but my big issue is they were confusing me.
You see life outside of Microsoft tends to refer to products in their finished state: Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, etc. (This might not be true everywhere, but has been true for me.)Now though that I work for the company of acronyms and codenames I am starting to pay more attention to them in an attempt to stay sane.
To help, here is one collection of codenames everyone should probably know (and im sure has heard of) in the VS.NET family:
| Codename | Description |
| Everett | Visual Studio 2003 |
| Whidbey | Visual Studio 2005 |
| Orcas | Visual Studio 2008 |
| Rosario | Visual Studio Team System 2008+ (source) |
| Hawaii | "Visual Studio family past Orcas" (source) |
If anyone has additional names that belong to this list and I missed please dont hesitate to contact me with them or post a reply to this entry.
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