Beta 2 released with fixes for many customer reported bugs and we also implemented some new features based on popular customer suggestions.

 

Now, with every day that passes, the bar for changes to the product goes higher and higher. Every change to the code base requires careful risk scrutiny as to how much potential instability it adds, what its impact on user experience is, whether there’s a simple workaround, etc.  We are at the point in the product cycle where we want to fix the worst bugs and increase product stability. This enables us to ship which in turn enables a lot of customers to start releasing their Whidbey-based products. 

 

So what does this mean for customer suggestions? Most new feature requests will be postponed to the next version. When we open the product bug database for Visual Studio v-next, all the postponed bugs and suggestions from Whidbey, will be ported and reopened. So please continue to submit suggestions and vote on existing suggestions and know that postponed suggestions will be revisited.

 

Marie Hagman

Visual Studio

Program Manager