Huzzah...

[Merrion]

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect and Windows 2003 Server arrived today - a long night of installing awaits

 

[mutant]

Hehe, cool. Share your experiences later . I wish my upgrade would finally arrive... im so impatient

 

[wyrd]

OOOooOOOoOoOoo

.. now wheres my copy?

 

[Merrion]

Man - this is taking a huge age. You have to uninstall trhe 2003 beta, J# 1.1 redistributable, MSDN 2003 library and .Net 1.1 (Beta) framework first...

 

[Divil]

Did that really surprise you?

I love 2003, it even installed quicker than 2002.

 

[Merrion]

I wasnt suprised but I think that the install program should have either (a) listed all the things that needed uninstalling first or (b) had the option to do the uninstall itself.

 

[hog]

think I asked this before.....but have been asleep a lot since...

Im on VS Pro have been since January. Should I be considering a move to 2003 or leave it for now?


no worries.....just read the other posts, @ $29 hell why not!!

 

[mutant]

You gotta wake up into the new year of 2003
Of course you should get it

 

[hog]

yep....order placed, but a 28 day delivery window????

 

[Merrion]

By all means get the upgrade - they install side-by-side anyway.
Main gains are in the compact framework world, but theres a bit of new VB.Net syntax as well.

 

[mutant]

Originally posted by hog
yep....order placed, but a 28 day delivery window????

28 days? I wish mine came in 28 days... I placed my order on May 2!. The closest shipping date in June 14 as i was notified, but this doesnt mean that it wont be shipped later...

 

[Heiko]

A co worker of mine did some experiencing with .NET 2003 and came to the conclusion that not much is gained.

The app wont start up faster.
The IDE wont start up faster.
On the fly coding while debugging is not contained in the new version.

Whats the benefit then ?

 

[Divil]

The framework as a whole has much less bugs, and so does the IDE.

VS.NET 2003 and .NET 1.1 are primarily a bugfix release, hence the low price (covering shipping and media).

 

[hog]

Whoooooohooo VS 2003 is here already!!

Now that was quick.....Time to play