Scott Guthrie and the 5 concerns

No I am not going to review every line of Scott reply to the community about the issues with Visual Studio 2005.

The post is dense, and contains some interesting and promising answers. However my own two cents on that.

First, Scott admit that Beta 2 was frozen way back in February and today the latest releases (CTP internal builds) have a lot of new stuff and bugs fixed.

Then my main question remain valid: who can really validate outside Microsoft that the new releases are good enough for a final release? Why Microsoft didn’t release another Beta between February and today, exception of the CTP which are not generally used?

Scott list 5 main issues and address each of them, but if you look at the feedback center, be sure to find much more problems. The list is worryingly long.

And one thing I would like to see Scott reading is a statement or a roadmap if you prefer about the evolution of Visual Studio 2005. What are the chances to see an SP1, SP2 for the IDE and when?

Scott I agree that we are all happy with .Net 2.0. But not with the new Visual Studio.

You asked me also my feedback on my last migration tests. I will post something about that later, but at the moment it’s not really conclusive.

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  • Yeah, one of my main concerns is that all these fixes have been put in the CTPs since Beta 2 but I highly doubt the CTPs are used as heavily as Beta 2. I know I've come across multiple occasions where something was marked as fixed in Beta 2 but it actually wasn't. Bug fixes can include new bugs too (no one's perfect). VS is an amazing but complicated set of software. I don't mean to be harsh on the VS team. It is a great product. All this community noise is just to make sure it stays great.

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