it used to be the butt of a great joke by Leon Bambrick – with his now famous VB Refactoring menu, but now thanks to the genius of Developer Express, VB Refactoring is real and being offered by Microsoft as a free plug-in for VS2005.
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Sahil lists a bunch of interesting (good and not so good) things that he is finding with beta2.
I have downloaded and not yest installed cause I realized I don’t want no dang STANDARD bits!
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I blindly downloaded the standard version of VS2005 Beta2 because the only other option was Team System (not for me and also a an extra GB which would have added at least 6 hours). Mike Gunderloy pointed out that this is standard and we don’t have access to Professional as yet, so I went and checked the product version comparison chart for a reminder.
Here are the key differences between Standard and Pro
User Experience=”Streamlined” instead of “Full” – I have no idea what this even means!
Deployment Tools – Standard has “Click Once”, Pro says “Yes” (probably MSI Installation as per current versions)
Extensibility: In Standard you can only consume extensions, but not build them
Reporting: Standard has Crystal. Pro also has SQL Reporting Svs
Debugging: Standard does NOT have remoteo debugging
SQL Server: Standard does not have the explorer for SQL Server and there is no SQL Server 2005 integration
Included with intstall: Pro has SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and Windows 2003 Server Developer Edition included. Standard does not.
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Beta2 is already available to non-MSDN Universal Subscribers. You can order a DVD from Microsoft by starting at the VS2005 home page.
Also for a limited time, orders in US & Canada will get free shipping & handling on the discs.
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Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 has been released to MSDN Subscriptions Downloads.
It is available in various flavors with and with out Team System bits.
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I know our DCC fights for us, but it’s tough not being a top tier market. I just checked the city list for the newest MSDN Events spring tour and Burlington is not there, again. At this point, outside of the VTdotNET user group events, Microsoft doesn’t come to Vermont anymore. There is so much going on in the Boston area because they can easily get 500+ people at events. Burlington draws only 50+ people and sometimes that is really hard to achieve. I know I spend a lot of energy trying to get the word out. They always schedule Albany, NY though I have no clue how that does. But the closest events to us are over 3 hours away. I know from experience that, in this market, it is more likely to get people to a mid-day MSDN event than a weekend anything (eg Code Camp), so that route is not really an option.
I know the MSDN Event tour is also tied into other events – management and ITPro – and it is not so much becasue we don’t have enough developers at the MSDN Event, but the day as a whole, is probably not very cost effective.
Pretty much a cryin shame.
Richard Hale Shaw is in town so we thought it would be fun to do a geek dinner.
Date: Thursday April 8th
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: NECI Commons, 25 Church St. Burlington
Note that if there are too many of us to get a table quickly, we will just go elsewhere on Church Street or environs. So try not to be late!!
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Hey Vermont.NETters….
Here is fellow user group member, Dave Burke, talking about our Monday speaker, Robert Hurlbut and pointing to his Dot Net Rocks show. Check it out!
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VTdotNetters –
Last call to register – Mini CodeCamp C# Special Edition with Richard Hale Shaw (@ Watham MA All day Saturday April 30th).
Done in the CodeCamp tradition and will benefit VB/C++ developers who want to get into .NET or C# programmers looking for an all-day refresher course.
(thanks SB for the copy/paste!)
p.s. Come to a geek dinner with Richard in Burlington on Thursday night (April 7). Watch this post for the location
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(yeah, I know it’s been blogged by many people tonight – but this is awesome and I want to push it to my user group website!!)
Microsoft has just launched the VBRun dev center for VB6 developers
Here are the sections highlighted on the start page
Greatest Hits – highlighting some of hte best “black-belt” VB6 content from the MSDN site
VB Fusion – how to interop between VB6 and .NET
Stay the Path – how to leverage your VB6 expertise in VB.NET (I love this just from it’s description!)
Check this stuff out!!
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