Whidbey version

Thursday, November 20, 2003

.NET

Thanks to Julia, Jason for their help on Whidbey.

I am puzzled nw by Scott Guthrie comment:

This was a bug in the original alpha bits from this summer (the PDC alpha refresh had it fixed). Here is a forums thread with more details:

http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?tabindex=1&PostID=396111

Does it means that the version MSDN subscribers received is not the PDC version ?

Strange ! The version I have is 8.0.30703.27 (m2.030828-2105) for the MDE
and for .Net 1.2 1.2.30703.

Scott can you be kind to clarify ;-)

Anyway the trick posted by Jason works very well

And if you can use Virtual PC to install Whidbey. Especially if you do this on a machine already with VS 2003, so that you are sure that no files are mixed-up.

UPDATE: a last thing, Scott, I know we are talking about Alpha, but is the .Net team has alreday a place to report comments and hummm....bugs.

7 Comments

they fixed up a few things from the alpha and gave a new build out at PDC

julie lerman - Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:47:00 PM

Yup, alpha testers got the original one in June/July...the PDC build is just the same thing with a few bugs fixed (according to an announcement in the old Alpha forums)

Scott Galloway - Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:50:00 PM

But Julia MSDN subscribers were not supposed to have the PDC version ? On the DVD it's clearly marked with PDC logo

Paschal - Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:50:00 PM

The PDC version is the alpha refresh...as is the MSDN version (on cursory examination), so the PDC version contains the minor buges over the previous closed alpha version.

Scott Galloway - Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:52:00 PM

Thanks Scott for the explanations ;-)

Paschal - Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:56:00 PM

As far as I know the bugs that were fixed where related strictly for Longhorn compat, no more then that.

Jason Tucker - Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:09:00 PM

Thanks Jason for the info.

Paschal - Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:16:00 PM

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