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The focus on mobile, HTML5 support, and cloud deployment all sounds very handy. Does anyone care to predict when the beta will ship?

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Given the roadmap there, I'd say that the wait won't be terribly long. I have been very impressed with the turnaround times on new versions of MVC so far.

The feature that seems most likely to cause issues with a release would be Recipes because of their connection to NuGet. I'd expect to see a pretty feature complete CTP without that first, with the complete implementation being spread across one or two more.

I have no inside line on this, but I've been working with it since v1 so I follow it pretty closely.

My guess is somewhere between sept 13-16. That's PDC 2011.

I thought it had been re-branded as BUILD this year (and was going to have a massive Windows 8 focus). I've seen some reports of "PDC 2011" but then the dates and location are the same as build....unless they're going to run to conferences concurrently, which I doubt.

Correct. There is no separate PDC this year. The focus of Build at least in the promotion is definitely on Windows 8, who knows to what extent that reflects the content.

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