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Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 - Stick a Fork In It

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.
Posted: Apr 15 2005, 02:44 PM by interscape | with 6 comment(s)

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Tom Sluder said:

Do you know if the beta 2 build includes new builds of the Express versions or just VS2005 and the .NET Framework?
# April 15, 2005 1:17 PM

Robert McLaws said:

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.
# April 15, 2005 1:19 PM

Tom Sluder said:

Thanks for the quick reply Robert, I'll take some time later to uninstall my current versions of the product. I don't want to have any conflicts when they are finally released and I try to download and install. Plus it'll save me drooling time later.

Tom
# April 15, 2005 1:22 PM

Robert McLaws said:

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.
# April 15, 2005 1:25 PM

Tom Sluder said:

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.
# April 15, 2005 1:30 PM

TrackBack said:

I misunderstood my sources; the beta 2 bits were signed off today, but they won&rsquo;t be released for...
# April 15, 2005 7:52 PM