VS 2005 RC1 - How is it?

[Denaes]

Any good?

I'm running on Team Edition b2 (we were sent team edition and team server, but no normal b2 dvds in our MSDN package??) and it's workable stable. It slows down at some points and does a good job about creating code for a control/component, then changing all instances of the name to match the change... but sometimes wigs and corrupts or changes half the names causing a lot of errors (on the error list, not VS runtime errors).

More than once I've had to delete all my datacomponents to get the form working again, then adding and renaming (because I'm anal about how they're named).

Of course I should add that I'm using the VB.net portion. I havn't used the C# portion yet.

The release date on my version is like 5/1/2005. The release date on RC1 is 9/12/2005. A few months in between. Any neat improvements? Much more stable?

-- Edit

Will RC1 be released with the MSDN this month? We don't have a DVD burner here at work. I'm sure we could decompress the ISO somehow, but if we're going to get the DVD it's not worth the effort.

 

[Nerseus]

Will RC1 be released with the MSDN this month?

I assume you're asking about the physical DVD? I would think it would be released very soon.

I use Alcohol 120% to make the ISO into a mapped drive and it works great. You can also use daemon tools which is free. They both work the same way, creating a virtual drive (you pick the drive letter, shows up as a standard windows drive) from an ISO (and other formats). You can then run setup.exe right from there. Alcohol allows you burn the image to a CD/DVD.

I haven't played with RC1 yet. I wanted to install it last night but caught up doing other things. I loved the renaming feature of Beta 2 (rename a control, get prompted to change ALL of your code related to the control). I never had any corruption but I always made sure to compile my project successfully before a name change. I assumed VS used the compiled info to know where your control was referenced.

-ner