Free Visual Studio 2005 (Beta 2)

Basq

Originally put this in the freebie list in Bargain Alerts but thought it would be of more benefit here!

Free Visual Studio 2005 (Beta 2)

Delivered to your door courtesy of Microsoft!

For anyone that can't find how to order it:
1. Select your country (... Ireland, duh! ...)
2. Click Order in the side menu
3. Tick the Terms and Conditions box
4. Sign in with your Hotmail address (You get spam / newsletters from them so register a new address if you use your Hotmail address regularly)
5. Click Finish to complete the order.

GoneShootin

Good find ! But you dont really need a hotmail account, just an existing email to register it with the Passport Network. I used my yahoo one.

Basq

GoneShootin wrote:

Good find ! But you dont really need a hotmail account, just an existing email to register it with the Passport Network. I used my yahoo one.

Ah right.. thought Passport only accepted either Hotmail or MSN e-mail accounts.

Cheers for the info!

Draupnir

Think this was advertised here about a month or two ago, got mine a few weeks ago, havent installed yet.

Webmonkey

Sweet..does it come in that lovely green packaging? or just a lonely CD inside an envelope?

Basq

Webmonkey wrote:

Sweet..does it come in that lovely green packaging? or just a lonely CD inside an envelope?

Lovely Green Packaging!

Webmonkey

Can't Wait

bonkey

I got a copy in the office a week or so ago. SQL Server 2005, VS2005, and VS2005 Team Foundation Server Betas, IIRC.

I did the only sensible thing I could....new VM, install the lot. Course, since then, I haven't had time to do so much as turn on the VM again

jc

stevenmu

Has anybody else running this noticed it seems to be really slow, I've been playing with it on a pentium m 1.6ghz laptop with 768 Mb ram and even simple things take it ages. It does seems slightly better than beta 1 though.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp

I've also noticed that it seems to be very slow.
Running a 2.8Ghz with 1Gb RAM. Thought that would be plenty.

Definitely seems more stable than beta 1 though.

ambrose :cool:

stevenmu

It's probably just down to it being a beta so, I'd a feeling this was the case but it's nice to hear others expriencing the same.

Kai

Hi,
i got this a few days ago but i cant seem to find the front end for the DB, such as Enterprise Manager. ? Im getting an error when i try to install it asking me to insert a cd. It doesnt specify the CD to put in. Anyone haveing this problem ?