Visual Studio 2005 preview is out

Originally Posted by Mr.S

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So there is a VS 2004.

When will that be released?

Originally Posted by Rhodium

So there is a VS 2004.

When will that be released?

Err.. It won't be released, at least not under that name. VS2004 was simply renamed to VS2005 (which is still pre-beta, and so may yet be renamed to VS2006 before RTM ).

Regards,
Satyric0n

Mr.S:

According to this page: hxxp://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/productinfo/roadmap.aspx "Orcas" is the codename of VS 9.0 (basically the release after VS2005), which will be released in the Longhorn timeframe, with Lornhorn specific development features. VS2005 was always and is still codename "Whidbey".

Also, the WinBeta guys say the release that came out on irc.betasirc.net had problems, though they didn't say what specifically. I am uploading the WinBeta release, which they claim is fixed.

Regards

Anyone notice how intuitive Visual Basic .net 2003 is? In many instances it tells you what to type before you even type it.

By 2005 it will be child's play.

[Mr.S]

Once again, thank you for the upload. Re: ��WinBeta�� fix: I may be able to comment only when I download and compare both *.iso files. Re: "Whidbey" or "Orcas": I truly don��t care how it is named, what matters is the quality of the product - Microsoft Developer��s team continues to do an enormous job. Even knowing that this is a beta stage of development, I can only say ��thank you��.

Maybe this is a stupid question but:

Is VS .net (1 or 2) able to compile "normal" - not .net - exes?
Because I think Opcode is always faster - or ...?

Originally Posted by Hades32

Maybe this is a stupid question but:

Is VS .net (1 or 2) able to compile "normal" - not .net - exes?
Because I think Opcode is always faster - or ...?

Only Visual C++. Other products compile only to ".net precode".

My brother's company got the evaluation version and he also installed on his home PC. I must say its pretty impressive. Not only the looks, but the usablity rocks... many cool features. Not much resource hungry either (about the same as the previous version).

Is this the Visual Studio 2005 Community Technology Preview version?

Has anyone tried this new beta version? How stable it is?

I want to get VS .NET and wonder should I get 2003 stable version or try new one. It depends on how stable this beta is...

shadower, yes this is the March '04 CTP.

kesipyc, I have been using it a lot for the past week or so. There are some obvious bugs, but most are very small. All the major bugs (there are only a few that potentially impact me) that I have seen were listed in the Known Issues section of the release notes on the DVD.

The new features are awesome, but I would not necessarily recommend using this. VS2005 only compiles apps for the .Net Framework 2.0 (except for VC++ which can still compile for native x86, obviously); the binaries are not backwards compatible with .Net 1.x.

So if you plan to run any programs you compile in a VS .Net language (C#, VB.Net, J#, MC++, etc) on a computer with only .Net Framework 1.x (2.0 is not publicly available), then VS2003 will be a much better choice.

Regards,
Satyric0n