Mark Bower tells us that MS signed off
on the VS2005 Beta 2 bits last night. The official word is they'll be
on MSDN "soon"... the build fairy tells me you'll see it anytime before next
Wednesday.
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Do you know if the beta 2 build includes new builds of the Express versions or just VS2005 and the .NET Framework?
Beta 2 will be Beta 2 of everything... Express, Team System, Starter Kits, MSDN, the runtime, the SDKs, and the IDE. At least, that's how I understand it.
If I were you, I'd prep a clean VirtualPC image and test it there. It's much better than trying to install and uninstall things to keep your system from getting hosed.
The machine I use for this is strictly a test/development machine. If it gets hosed it's only an hour or so to get it reinstalled and back to current form.