Visual Studio 2005

[llbbl]

Officials from the Redmond, Wash., software power announced the second beta of Visual Studio 2005, .NET Framework 2.0 beta 2, and the April Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2005.

Users will increasingly see future VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 tied together, highlighting Microsoft's commitment to tying application development to back-end infrastructure.

Microsoft SQL Server Director Tom Rizzo said VS 2005 beta 2 and the new SQL Server 2005 CTP mean both products have entered the final stages of their development cycles.

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3498371

Anyone care to explain WTF is the difference between visual studio 2005 and .NET? They are releasing Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 beta 2. Are they going back to the visual studio name and dropping the .NET idea or what are they going to release a 2nd IDE called .NET version 2 that is exactly the same as visual studio 2005.

[dang]

i bet they are dropping the .net. The naming scheme .net confuses a lot of people.

[llbbl]

that is what I was thinking too. they just released .NET like a year ago or something. I wonder if anything is going to be improved or if they are just going to change all the graphics to say visual studio.

[senoryoshio]

People seem to be getting it free, MSDN or not.

Get Beta 2 from here (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/Default.aspx)

Slickdeals thread w/ the pertinant info on this deal (http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?threadid=93404&postid=0#post0)

I didn't try to get it or anything, I haven't had a real need since school, but maybe you guys'll wanna try it out.

[dang]

cool. ordered a copy