The RC of VS.NET 2005 and Sql Server 2005...................

..........will be released sometime around the PDC according to eWeek.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1850411,00.asp

As both its PDC and the launch of its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 products loom in the next few months, Microsoft is working on delivering technology to eager users, prepping to RTM VS 2005, deliver a release candidate of the technology and provide a third beta version of a key component.

Microsoft will officially launch both Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 on Nov. 7 in San Francisco.

"We are going to issue an RTM [release to manufacturing] of the product in time for the Nov. 7 launch," said Prashant Sridharan, senior product manager for Visual Studio 2005.

"That RTM of the product will also include the planned Beta 3 of Team Foundation Server, which is the server component of Visual Studio Team System. And then we intend to ship the Team Foundation Server in the first quarter of 2006. That's all according to plan; we haven't deviated."

In addition, when Microsoft issues the RTM of those client pieces of Visual Studio, "when we ship that Team Foundation Server Beta 3, we will also include product support for that Beta 3 as well as a Go Live license," Sridharan said.