VS2005 Beta 2 So far so good :-)

As many have already done with the latest Beta, I also give a try. The challenge was quite easy, to see if my 'big' pet project Scoilnet would convert without screaming.

Well very surprised indeed, not a single issue with the conversion. I installed Visual Studio Team System (3.75Gb Pheww!) and so far so good.

Just one little annoying thing. When something slow down in VS for any reason, all the computer become slow. I tried VS on 3 different computers without Virtual PC.

Maybe for the final release, Microsoft should implement some kind of progress bar or some mechanism to show that the application has not crashed !

Otherwise, I really enjoy the new HTML editor, and even more the new collapsing system. I can now work on some specific part of my code with everything collapsed except one expanded section. Sweet!

I am pleased also that the conversion works also when you have a solution with multiple projects. In this case, VS2005 transform the old project as a C# or VB project. No more Solutions or Projects folders !

All the code behind is also still there, and it will surely be some time before I move to the code beside idea.

In the Solution Explore you can also keep your code behind closed and instead use the new View Code button to see your code. It's just a detail, but it keep things cleaner and show how deep are the changes in this version.

Because I am lucky enough to host all my projects, next step will be to try publishing Scoilnet '2.0' on one of my servers in the next couple of days. I will let you know when it's done.