Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is here
After a ton of delays we finally have beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005! I think every .net developer is trying to download from MSDN today. I started this morning and I am still only 25% of the way there and I have been at it for over 6 hours now. I know its 3.7 gigs but I’ve been able to download 2 gigs with my connection in under 90 minutes.
All I can say its about time that its available. I’ve been building a new application under the beta 1 bits for the last couple of months and lately Visual Studio has been crashing every 15 mins or just hangs completely on me.
Hopefully by PDC 2005 we will have the production version out.
UPDATE: We finally did get everything working in Visual Studio 2005 beta 2, but the third party controls we are using are failing to initialize! So now we have been forced to remove them until we get a new update from them. That’s at least 3 weeks away!