Beta 2 has shipped on MSDN!

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Stay tuned Sean will post very soon confirming how you can order a copy of the new Beta's on DVD in New Zealand to save a massive download bill :)

The MOTO and PMG teams are very pleased to announce today’s release of the Web sites to support the release of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, which is a major milestone on our way to the next generation of Visual Studio products. This effort included long hours, and incredible co-operation by all the teams involved. The work included the development, update, and launch of the following Developer Centers:

  • Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center
    • Updated to reflect Beta 2 changes
    • Expanded Download section, including adding support for Pharos crawls for Starter Kits and other downloads coming from the product teams and our CodeZone partners
  • Visual Studio 2005 Team System
    • Updated to reflect Beta 2 changes
  • Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition
  • Coding4Fun Developer Center (aka the Hobbyist Developer Center)
    • A new Developer Center designed to target the non-professional and hobbyist developer market
    • All new visually appealing design, while still following MSDN and Microsoft.com guidelines
    • Entirely new projects and articles to get traditional and non-traditional developers excited in the Express products and the rest of our development product line
  • As well as numerous updates to the regular MSDN Developer Centers, including ASP.NET, Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and SQL

Big Thanks To

MOTO

  • John Serna
  • Chris Dahl
  • Brian Johnson
  • Chris Mowrer
  • Christa Carpentiere
  • Brad McCabe
  • Matt Powell
  • John Boylan
  • Sarah Cousins Hoopes
  • Frank Redmond

PMG and Product Teams

  • Dan Fernandez
  • Brian Keller
  • Brian Goldfarb
  • Ajay Sudan
  • Shawn Nandi
  • Jon Byrum
  • Jay Roxe
  • Christopher Flores
  • Kim Meyer
  • Prashant Sridharan