RSSMicrosoft Dev Tools Near Completion
By Nate Mook | Published August 22, 2005, 12:13 PM
Microsoft has confirmed it will issue a release candidate of Visual Studio 2005 and a community technology preview of SQL Server 2005 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on September 12. Formerly known by their code-names Whidbey and Yukon, both products will officially launch November 7.
An August CTP of Visual Studio 2005 is slated for release this week, while a third beta of the server component of Visual Studio Team System is due in September. The releases will be a welcome arrival for developers, which have put up with numerous delays that pushed the final products back over a year.
I think that VS is a great development environment. I haven't done that much testing with VS2005, but from what I have seen I have been impressed. There are bugs in all applications, but I agree, why not just fix it with a patch. I'm ready for it to come out, I don't want to wait (like I have had to for Vista).
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|No it is not ready yet.
They need more things to add, such as what is offered by component one, infragistic and others. so we can create software easier but no need to buy expensive components.
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|I couldn't get my application to work, because of one of those "major" bugs. Any time I try to save a binary file from the web browser. Like when it loads an mpeg. It jumps right out of the procedure, rather than processing the code and believe me there is no "exit sub" anywhere.
It doesn't bother me that they're delaysing fixes, but I do get annoyed when they say we'll fix it in the next version, why not in service pack? It seems they've strayed away from their previously exemplory maintenance strategy. Visual Studio had 6 service packs, VS.Net 2002, had none, nor did 2003. Imagine if Office 2000 never had a service pack, ehck! And they wonder why they have to spend so much money on convinving people about their new architecture, maybe they need to move those funds to creating the substance, behind that unsupported argument.
As far as I can tell Visual Basic 6, still does things VB.NET 2005 can't: object arrays.
Cheers,
Christian
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|Lots of features, lots of bugs. No news here.
"Move along people; nothing to see here." -Ofcr Barbrady
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|The difference here is that MS is actually coming out and saying they'd rather leave bugs in than delay a release! If you go look on their bug report system, you'll see numerous responses of "we can reproduce this, however we cannot fix this in time for a release so we will consider it for a future version."
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|As someone who has beta tested VS.NET 2005, I'd just like to let everyone know that it is LOADED with bugs that MS refuses to fix since it would delay a release.
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|We've been using the Visual Studio 2005 beta at work. Brilliant piece of software. From the looks of it, they're really putting a big effort behind the .NET framework.
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