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Inherits Microsoft.VisualBasic.MVP : Implements IBrainFart
VS2005 Beta 2. I've got it. Do you?

B2 appeared on the MSDN download site around lunchtime Saturday (Aussie time). w00t! Downloaded! The team suite of course, none of this 'standard' stuff for me, thanks. I'll be harassing the clear case administrator at work to install a foundation server for me to play with on monday, too.

So far, I've burnt it off (plus a couple of spares for friends) and installed it on my home machine. I have to say, it runs pretty nice.

It's only crashed on me once (error report sent!) and I've lodged two bugs on the product feedback centre (both pissy little things that are nothing to do with .net - see here and here if you're interested).

The thing that's impressed me most is that I imported some code from work that was written in the 1.1 framework. The entire solution consisted of two web sites (one a web site, one a web service) a web control library, and 6 or 7 class libraries. Nothing huge, but still plenty of code.

And it worked like a charm! Last time I tried (B1) it failed dismally. Now this is really sweet - to upgrade, I only need to open the old solution, and everything is fine. Chuck in a code review to find the bits and peices that can be revised to bring 2.0 specific changes, and we're laughing.

Oh, one little complaint. It'd be nice if the two websites had a 'My Project' section like the class libraries do. It's a pain having two different methods to go through the project settings.

All in all, I'm a happy little code monkey.

Posted: Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:22 AM by Geoff Appleby

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# April 17, 2005 4:14 AM

johnpapa said:

Still downloading on my PC ... lots of traffic so far. In the meantime I will be creating a new Virtual PC disk.
# April 17, 2005 6:38 AM

Blah said:

Where'd you find the April CTP of SQL Server? All the docs mention it as a requirement for Team Foundation Server, but I don't see it listed under the VS2005 or the SQL Server nodes.
# April 17, 2005 11:51 AM

Sahil Malik said:

Can u MSN file txfer an image to me?
# April 17, 2005 12:03 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Never mind, I got it too !!
# April 17, 2005 12:09 PM

johnpapa said:

12 hours later, its downloaded! Woo hoo!
# April 17, 2005 6:51 PM

Geoff Appleby said:

Sorry guys, you all had a conversation here and I never even noticed - I presumed I'd be emailed when people left a comment, but it seems not :)

Glad you all got it sorted. The missing SQL CTP is not missing anymore - it's appeared on MSDN downloads for me. They just took a little while to propogate it out :)
# April 19, 2005 2:46 AM

Darrell said:

No, but the downloading will commence once I get home from 3 days on the road.
# April 21, 2005 6:50 AM
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