Mark Brown : Whidbey

What will break?

markbrown — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 04:46:00 GMT

Information on the 2.0 Framework Beta is everywhere. My RSS reader is going nuts with all the excitement. Take a look at Backwards Breaking Changes from version 1.1 to 2.0 as you start to migrate.

Update: An overview of the changes can be found here.

Unit Testing in all VS 2005 Versions

markbrown — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:54:00 GMT

I agree with Scott.

“Unit Testing support should be included with all versions of Visual Studio 2005 and not just with Team System.“

I've been wondering why this was only available in the Team System.

Here's Peter Provost's origianl post.

Visual Studio 2005 Beta Install

markbrown — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:33:00 GMT

I've been having problems installing the May CTP inside a Virtual PC host. The error log message had this entry:

Errror 1310: Error writing to file: CppCodeProvier.dll. Verify that you have access.

This blog entry gave me some clues but didn't solve my problem. The solution that worked for me was to copy the Visual Studio directory locally and create a share that the VPC host could access.

Visual Studio 2005

markbrown — Sat, 10 Apr 2004 21:32:00 GMT

Has anyone really had to reformat their hard drive?

“IMPORTANT NOTE: Technology Previews are not “alpha” or “beta” quality. They should only be installed on dedicated machines as no guarantees are made that the hard drive will not require reformatting once the customer’s evaluation is complete. Microsoft will still release alphas and betas of Visual Studio 2005 ("Whidbey"). Developers can look to these releases to provide increasing features, quality, and stability.“

Also, I'm assuming that this is a newer version then the PDC version. Is that correct?