[Mono-list] Visual Studio.net 2005 Enterprise Beta 1

[David Waite]

I believe Microsoft ties their versions of Visual Studio to particular
releases of .Net. After a final release is available, you may be
motivated to upgrade so that you are using the final versions of the
.Net 2.0 assemblies (and the correct APIs).


On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:49:08 -0600, SigmaX <scottclansman@cwazy.co.uk> wrote:
> Sijmen Mulder wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> >>obviously that has a limited time license and will expire later on
> >>
> >>* why not download the Personal Edition beta which is (and will remain from
> >>what I understand) for free:
> >>
> >>http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express
> >>
> >>
> >
> >If I recall correctly, doesn't the express edition expire, too?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I've looked everywhere and I can't find that they expire (Not to say
> they don't).  Microsoft's "trial editions" always expire after six
> months, give or take, but do their Betas?  Their so-called "CTP's"
> (Monthly snapshots of dev) are replaced a month later by the next CTP
> and so on, and the Beta is just a more tested and mature version.  Their
> dev model is looking more and more open-source-ish... though I'm certain
> they'll never actually release the code, though they'll be happy for
> heavy developors to file bug reports in the CTP's :-P.
>    Can anybody give me a link where it actually says that the
> Enterprise Beta expires after a period?  Or maybe something that says
> you can't use it in production (Read: for-profit) environments?  I've
> got VS 2002 academic, which is only good for educational and
> open-source-ish stuff by the license.  Mono is great, but I'm holding
> out for Winforms before I'm a complete convert :-P.
>                Anywho, that's me 2c,
>                      SigmaX
> 
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