It looks like the SharePoint team is slowly catching up to what the community has had for years in various guises on CodePlex, but I’ve a good feeling that sometime in the future, the community will finally be able to relax and get back to real work as official support will surpass even the best of the open source offerings (optimistic? we’ll see). Here’s the feature set for the current CTP:
(These are features added in v1.3 which were not available in v1.2 or v1.1)
· Support for developing and deploying on 64 bit (x64).
1) Command line operation is as follows:devenv.exe <Project.csproj or Solution.sln and other usual flags> /deploy Debugdevenv.exe <Project.csproj or Solution.sln and other usual flags> /deploy Debug /packagedevenv.exe <Project.csproj or Solution.sln and other usual flags> /deploy Debug /retractNote that with the /package and /retract flags the /deploy flag is required.
Grab it from the Microsoft Download Center.