Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 available

This is the news that lot of us was waiting for and today it's reality: the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is now available to download (download available for the moment only for MSDN Subscribers).

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 is available with the following tree:

  • Visual Source Safe 2005 Beta 2 (English)
  • Visual Studio 2005 Standard Beta 2 (English)
  • Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition Test Load Agent Beta 2 (English)
  • Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 (English)
  • Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Beta 2 (English)

Obviously, I think that in these days the download will be quite impossible due too much requests, however it's important to see that will have soon the new VS2005 release to play with.

P.S. read carefully these recommendations for this Beta 2 installation:

Before installing Visual Studio Team Suite Beta2, Visual Studio Standard Beta2 or Visual Studio Professional Beta2, if you have Visual Studio 2005 Beta1 or Community Technology Preview (CTP) builds, the following steps must be followed in order to uninstall the pre-Beta 2 components:
Go to Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs, and remove the following:

  1. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
  2. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Express Edition
  3. Microsoft SQL Native Client
  4. Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta
  5. MSDN Product Documentation
  6. Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime Beta
  7. Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Beta
  8. Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Beta
  9. Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 Development Tools
  10. Microsoft Visual J# Redistributable Package 2.0 Beta (If you see an error removing J# Redistributable Package from Add/Remove Programs, please run "msiexec /x {9046F10C-F5E7-4871-BED9-8288F19C70DF}" from a command line window)
  11. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta (If you see an error removing .NET Framework 2.0 from Add/Remove Programs, please run "msiexec /x {71F8EFBF-09AF-418D-91F1-52707CDFA274}" from a command line window)

Print | posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 2:26 PM

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I need the beta version to develop agains the SQLExpress SP3 database I am using. Any help would be much appreciated.
Left by James Graham on Aug 10, 2009 6:15 AM

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