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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2005 Express Beta

By Eric Steil, BetaNews

June 30, 2004, 1:12 AM

Microsoft has made downloadable versions of the Visual Studio 2005 Express beta available to the public. As previous reported the Express edition is a lightweight version designed for hobbyists and students. The Visual Studio products available in the Express edition are Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual J#, Visual Web Developer and SQL Server. The individual betas can be downloaded from the Microsoft Developer Network web site.

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By scriptee

edited Jul 14, 2004 - 12:35 AM

In case anyone didnt know, you can dopwnload the actual "Installers" instead of downloading the entire package every time. What you do it download the normal installer from the net, then once the download part of the process is finished you can find the full installer in your windows profile temp folder.

I think the 2005 range of .NET products are great. The new designer views are awsome! Although rather buggy, it is a much better implimentation than the Alpha release (it was really bad).

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By slentz

posted Jul 7, 2004 - 1:05 PM

I am having slow download problems. I have a cable modem and I and only downloading 4kb for every 5 min.

I also would like to know if this is going to be free (to compete with Linux).

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By plaz

posted Jul 1, 2004 - 5:13 AM

For anyone having problems with the net installer for these packages, it seems to break horribly if you have a transparent proxy between you and the server.

I have a transparent squid proxy running on my linux box, and I was unable to connect to the download site to get the packages. When I disable the transparent proxy and let my machine connect directly out to the 'net, it works fine.

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By utomo

posted Jun 30, 2004 - 7:52 AM

many people already waiting for this new version for long time ago.
Microsoft need to release it soon, and not to delay it any longer.
or give options for visual studio user who buy it after June 2004 it will get version 2005 free upgrade.
what is not good is Microsoft did not release any update/service pack for visual studio .net 2002 and 2003. I think microsoft really need to consider it.

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By willl

posted Jun 30, 2004 - 6:21 PM

Actually, you'll find that VS.NET 2003 was the "service pack" for VS.NET 2002.

That's why customers who had purchased a licensed copy of VS.NET 2002, could obtain 2003 for a cheaper price $29USD(though, offer ended September 2003... Ref: http://msdn.microsoft.co.../vstudio03/default.aspx).

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By utomo

posted Jul 9, 2004 - 2:03 AM

Your link is not working.
do same things happend with visual studio 2003 to 2005 ?
people did not want to invest big amount of money (pro/entreprise) and then not long time ago we need to buy new version 2005. which cost us a lot.

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