Oh my God! The sky is falling on .NET v2!
Has the entire community lost its mind? I mean, we do all develop software for a living, right? I have a hard enough time after weeks of requirements gathering trying to develop and deliver a product that is exactly what a hundred people want, let alone what hundreds of thousands of people want. It feels a lot like all of the VB6 people that felt kicked in the nuts because they weren't getting their way back in 2001.
I guess this is the down side of having a very public and open beta process. On one hand, you get valuable feedback and improve the product, but on the other you get hundreds of people declaring a worst-case scenario. Then perfectly smart and rational people make it worse by spreading irrational FUD about how Microsoft won't fix whatever, or won't issue a patch or service pack, etc. I wasn't aware that so many developers had access to Crystal Ball .NET!
The way I see it, I've spent years now with a Visual Studio that "mostly works" and put up with it. Maybe fight it is a better word. VS 2005 is like a breath of fresh air, and if there are quirks in it, or the framework or C#, I'll deal with those quirks. There comes a point where you just have to roll with it or the project will never ship. Never shipping is worse than living with quirks.
Am I making excuses for Microsoft? Nope. I don't think they should ship crap either. But that's just it... my perspective is such that I don't see crap in the pipe. It's all relative to your perspective. I think some people have lost perspective. On a scale of "good enough" to "outstanding," I think they're a lot close to the latter than the former.
Must get back to developing software now...