Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Available for MSDN Subscribers

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Microsoft have made available the latest bits of Whidbey (beta 1). Beta 1 was compiled and finalised as beta 1 early this week and MSDN subscribers are one of the first groups to receive the bits.

Included on MSDN Subscriber Downloads are the following:

Amberpoint Express for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 (English) - 3.26 MB
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 - CD1 (English) - 635.92 MB
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 - CD2 (English) - 635.33 MB
MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 - CD3 (English) - 520.60 MB
Remote Debugger for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 (English) - 17.99 MB
Visio Tools for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 (English) - 229.78 MB
Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Architect Beta 1 - CD1 (English) - 647.06 MB
Visual Studio 2005 Enterprise Architect Beta 1 - CD2 (English) - 441.10 MB

Visual Basic/C#/C++/J# and web developer Express tools are also available to subscribers. Whidbey beta 1 will be shipped with the next MSDN subscriber shipment next month.

View: MSDN Subscribptions

News source: MSDN Home Page

Areas of concentration in the DirectX 9.0 SDK Update (Summer 2004) RC0 release are:
- HLSL support for Pixel Shader & Vertex Shader 3.0
- Effects Framework performance improvements
- Pre computed Radiance Transfer improvements
- New Sample framework
- New & Updated Samples
- PIX tool for better debugging of Direct3D applications
- Introduction of the Preview Pipeline for easier content creation

(1 reply) #1 gadean on 02 Jul 2004 - 12:01

Is there a guest ID available for Whidbey? I do not subscribe to MSDN so I don't have access to this beta!

#1.1 SIG on 02 Jul 2004 - 19:56

It will be available to public in the future.

#2 shift on 02 Jul 2004 - 12:02

downloading already

#3 weenur on 02 Jul 2004 - 13:08

Trying to convince the boss to download it... grrr...

(3 replies) #4 STV on 02 Jul 2004 - 13:34

if you dont already know, there are express editions avalible at: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

STV

#4.1 dismuter on 02 Jul 2004 - 22:19

I think these need the Platform SDK to be downloaded seperately. I installed VC++ 2005 express and the header files for Windows API weren't included.

#4.2 STV on 03 Jul 2004 - 16:29

the C# one works fine.

STV

#4.3 tonyunreal on 04 Jul 2004 - 08:18

QUOTE (#4.1)

VC++ Express is supposed to support building .NET Application only.

(2 replies) #5 Sn1p3t on 02 Jul 2004 - 17:23

It will be released to the public shortly. Settle down everyone

#5.1 glitch409 on 02 Jul 2004 - 18:12

QUOTE

The full Visual Studio 2005 Beta, available to MSDN Subscribers initially; and by order for non-subscribers for a small fee in the near future.

your going to have to pay for it

#5.2 Sn1p3t on 02 Jul 2004 - 21:06

Wow, I completely skipped over that part.

Well, it really doesn't matter considering almost all the functionality is in the Express products. The fee may be just for bandwidth, but I've never heard of Microsoft crying because of bandwidth costs

#6 dismuter on 02 Jul 2004 - 22:05

I think the fee is for the DVD being mailed...

(oops, wanted to reply to above post)

#7 d.thornton on 02 Jul 2004 - 22:23

I'll gladly pay for a DVD as opposed to huge downloads.

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