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Topic: VS 2005 looks sweet

Posted By: Bluefrog
Subject: VS 2005 looks sweet
Date Posted: 23 July 2005 at 7:42am

At SIC in Denver the MS guys were demoing VS 2005 and showing some of the new improvements. And it looks REALLY sweet.

I got a copy of the beta DVD and will give it a spin in the next little while.

You can get a beta at getthebetas.com.

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 23 July 2005 at 8:58am

I ordered a DVD last week, hasn't come yet, at the minute I'm playing with the express's instead http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/ - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 24 July 2005 at 11:25am

The new stuff in VS 2005 is just wild. You're going to love it. You can move stuff to functions, rename variables throughout a program and just get stuff done FAST. I'm trying to beg MS for a complimentary copy because I won the Best Application Using .Net award... but so far Daniel hasn't replied Ouch

Please everyone, email him at danielfe at microsoft (blah) dot (blah) com and tell him what a good guy I am and how I really deserve a free copy of VS 2005 as a loyal .vangelist Big smile

Shouldn't Microsoft show the little guy some love?

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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 24 July 2005 at 11:49am

I reckon they should make more of there devlopment software free because in a few years they will have a lot more competition with Linux and the Linux development tools (which can also cross-compile easily with cygwin etc)

I got a free cd of either express or vs .net b2 (cant remember which) but I couldnt be bothered to mess around installing .net 2

Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 24 July 2005 at 2:00pm

Looks like VS 2005 is going to have some pretty inexpensive versions compared to what's been available in the past so that's definitely they way they're headed.

.net hasn't been taking off for them at the rate they thought it would so they're getting a lot of market pressure to lower the entry point prices on VS.

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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 24 July 2005 at 5:19pm

Some people were complaining to the MS guys about people needing the .Net framework installed. A lot of people use it on servers now, but not on the desktop.

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 25 July 2005 at 9:49am

argh, I ordered it a week ago aswell:

Thank you for your order, it is being processed and should arrive within 28 days.

Order For: Visual Studio 2005 Beta Experience Kit
Order Number: 01205401012750
Order Date: July 25, 2005

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 25 July 2005 at 11:09am

Yikes, that is a long time. They must deliver it by boat from Redmond. I am still running the beta2 and have not bothered installing the latest CTP's it runs well for the most part but well crashed on occasion. So far auto-file-recovery got it all back though.

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 25 July 2005 at 11:35am

The express's have been great for me so far, but for some reason I can't get the ASP.NET Configuration thing to work right with it... I can only get it to run from a MS Access db when I want SQL Server... And it won't let me create an administrator Cry

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 25 July 2005 at 3:45pm

I had a similar problem, but after I ran

aspnet_regsql.exe -E -S localhost -A all

to create the sql aspnetmembership db and using a web.config like

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration xmlns=" http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0 - http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0 ">
<appSettings/>
<connectionStrings>
  <remove name="LocalSqlServer" />
  <add name="norcsfs02" connectionString="Data Source=norcsfs02;Initial Catalog=applixdata;User ID=csintra;Password=clntsrvcs;Persist Security Info=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  <add name="SqlServices" connectionString="Data Source=norcsfs02;Initial Catalog=aspnetdb;User ID=CSintra;Password=clntsrvcs;Persist Security Info=True" />
</connectionStrings>
<system.web>

</system.web>
</configuration>

It worked like a charm

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