Why another year?

[John]

Hi

Now that vs2005 beta1 is out. What is left that would take another whole
year?

Thanks

Regards

 

[Mike McIntyre [MVP]]

Hi John,

Testing, and more testing. Not all features are turned on and those that are
don't all work.

Community feeback will lead to some more changes.

Also, documentation is incomplete.

Mike

 

[Peter van der Goes]

Hi

Now that vs2005 beta1 is out. What is left that would take another whole
year?

Thanks

Regards

To get maximum circulation and feedback from Beta 1 and its successors, to
end up with as good a product as possible?
It's now the second half of 2004. I don't believe that Microsoft has
announced an official release date for Visual Studio 2005. The last estimate
I heard was "first half, 2005". Given that, we *could* see production
release in six months.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Now that vs2005 beta1 is out. What is left that would take another whole
year?

Where did you read that it will take one year from now until the final
version is released?

 

[Guest]

Anyone have a link that highlights any new (useful) features in VS 2005?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Anyone have a link that highlights any new (useful) features in VS 2005?

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/>
-> "Visual Basic 2005 Information"

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

Dennis
In addition to Herfried's link:

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/ where you can download the Express
version or you can click on "Beta Docs" to see documentation on the new
features

http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/changeinfo/default.aspx where you see the
changes from 1.1 to 2.0 beta 1.

http://www.windowsforms.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=4&tabid=60 where you can
see info & screen prints on new Windows Forms features.

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Dennis,

In addition to the others

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[Cor Ligthert]

This message was send to the newsgroup last week, I forgot to type that.

Cor

 

[John]

There is mention of 1h2005 not first quarter 2005, giving the impression its
likely closer to a year.

Regards

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

There is mention of 1h2005 not first quarter 2005, giving the impression its
likely closer to a year.

Mhm... Currently information about the release date is rare and there
is a lot of rumor about when it will be released. But I still think
it's much less than a year to wait for VS 2005.

 

[Richard Myers]

I dunno why, just for once, they dont slooooww down.

Why not give us a near perfect experience this time and bump back the
release date to Jan 2006?
Bugger economics they've got 40 billion in cash.

Have another year and do it absolutely right....if nothing else swallow the
whole Win32 API.
Why rush, if Jan 2005 means we're going to have to download patch after
patch update after update.
It's become a little tedious.

I can handle vapourware marketing for another 18 months if it means getting
a truely sensational, near perfect product/platform at the end of it......
except for edit and continue of course.... can we just have that tomorrow?



Richard