Whidbey Gotchas

So far, developing in Whidbey has been great, with one gotcha that I've seen so far.  I have a windows form, with 4 textboxes, 4 labels, and a couple of buttons.  Clicking on one of the textboxes, entering “Edit Properties Mode,” and changing the text property gets VS stuck in an exception loop. 

Longhorn seems to have a memory leak in explorer.exe that may only get bad during the default screen saver.  (~900mb after 4 hours of non-use)

So, this does not take anything away from the products in this early stage; this isn't a bash.  It's best to know about the issues as they come up.

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  • Exactly man, exactly. This is exactly why I think Microsoft is making a great choice in showing the software in such early stages. I'm sure they'd catch the memory leak in testing, but instead the MS testers can focus more time on other things.

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