Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

Visual Studio 2005 ACE Award - Thanks Microsoft

Eric Hammersley — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:48:00 GMT

I'm not entirely sure what qualified me for this but I received it today. Here's a cut from the e-mail.

Dear Eric Hammersley,

Thank you for being a great contributor to Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

You have been nominated to receive the Award for Customer Excellence. This award recognizes your extraordinary contribution to the Visual Studio 2005 product and will be shipped to you without charge.

I don't know, perhaps everyone got one of these. All I know is that I never win anything. ;-) Thanks Microsoft, I really appreciate it. I'm not sure I deserved it but obviously someone thought so.

Oh, if you're curious here is what it looks like.

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server doesn't make the deadline

Eric Hammersley — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:13:00 GMT

Yep, it looks official (I’m using that very gently). Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, a key component of the new Visual Studio 2005 development tools suite to be released on November 7th 2005 will not make the RTM cut.

According to this article in eWeek Visual Studio Team Foundation Server will be released as Beta 3 at the November 7th Visual Studio 2005 launch and will not reach RTM status as originally anticipated.

My opinion… if you need Beta 3, take it!! It is far better in my opinion to take the extra beta and deliver a “usable” product that take the far-to-often approach of pushing to delivery to match a marketing layout.

For the up coming news on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server be sure and keep an eye on Rob Caron’s blog. Rob has listed a few links on this topic as well.

Visual Studio Beta 2 - Call out to help test Upgrade Wizard features for ASP.NET v1.x to ASP.NET v2.0 solutions

Eric Hammersley — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:34:00 GMT

Brian Goldfarb posted this article yesterday.

Help us test the updated Upgrade Wizard features in VS 2005

“Are you interested in upgrading your web application from ASP.NET 1.x to 2.0? Well then you have come to the right place, because I have a brand new prototype of our latest and greatest upgrade wizard that we want to test to see how it converts your existing Web projects.”

If you’re an ASP.NET developer then I’d suggest you go check it out. It’s always fun to squeeze new bits.