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Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 shipped!

 

Earlier today, we shipped Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0!

 

This is by far the best Visual Studio and .NET Framework release that we have ever done.  I am very proud to be a part of the team that did a phenomenal job of delivering this fantastic product.  I also want to take this opportunity to thank the community and early adopter customers for their incredible help and invaluable contributions in helping us ship the right product.

 

Later in the day, the final bits will be up on MSDN for our MSDN subscribers around the world to get access to the product.

 

I am looking forward to the product launch on November 7th and all the subsequent launch events around the world.

 

Namaste!

Posted: Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:43 AM by Somasegar

Comments

Marc LaFleur said:

You just made my day. :)
# October 27, 2005 12:50 PM

Shoddy Coder said:

Soma, congrats to you and all the staff on this release. As a developer I've never been more excited in my career than I am about this release and this product. Great job!

Shoddy
# October 27, 2005 12:57 PM

rickg said:

Awesome! The wait is over.
# October 27, 2005 12:58 PM

Serge Baranovsky said:

Great job! Congratulations! Can't wait to see it in MSDN downloads!
# October 27, 2005 1:02 PM

Umberto said:

This is a great news! I hope that UPS will work as good as usually is doing in order we can get Visual Studio 2005 asap.
# October 27, 2005 1:18 PM

Gustavo Trunci said:

Congratulations from Brazil. Great job. It is a great product. Many, many times better than VS 2003.
# October 27, 2005 1:25 PM

Stanleyjello said:

Congratulations to you all guys!!!

I too have been excited about this release!

Thanks!
# October 27, 2005 1:27 PM

Corrado Cavalli said:

Congratulations to all the people involved on this huge project! :-)
# October 27, 2005 1:29 PM

Bernard Oh said:

Congratulation to every member in the product teams. This is such a major release. Finally the wait is over :) Someone pass the cigars around ;)
# October 27, 2005 1:39 PM

John Bristowe said:

<ComicBookstoreGuy>Best. News. Ever.</ComicBookstoreGuy>
# October 27, 2005 1:41 PM

Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson said:

Congratulations to everyone in the Developer Division. This must be a great day for you guys!

I'm off to MSDN to try and download (servers are getting hammered :P)
# October 27, 2005 1:42 PM

Chris Woodruff said:

Congrats to all. I hope the .NET, VS, SQL and BizTalk teams get a nice reward and some time to relax before the launch events.
# October 27, 2005 1:46 PM

Kiran Gudupalli said:

Congratulations!

Thanks for making available to download at MSDN.

Can't wait to see it in MSDN downloads!
# October 27, 2005 1:48 PM

Chris said:

Awesome, downloading now.
# October 27, 2005 1:50 PM

Ashith Raj said:

Great news for the Developer community. I'm eager to see how the whole community going to embrace and start deploying innovative solutions.

Also curious to see how it will be priced and how MSDN will accomodate small ISVs into the subscriptions model
# October 27, 2005 1:59 PM

Daniel said:

Somasegar Prabhuji,

This really saves the day!

See you in Belgium, November 10th!


Namaste!
# October 27, 2005 2:04 PM

Jason N. Gaylord said:

Thanks for the good news Soma!

Jason
# October 27, 2005 2:05 PM

Krishna Baderia said:

Thanks Soma!! that's really a big news and its going to help us a lot. Meanwhile, are you aware of SQL Server 2005 release ??
# October 27, 2005 2:11 PM

Dwain Gleason said:

This is great news! Congratulations on the release, I am really looking forward to downloading it and giving a go...but it looks like the download servers are a little hammered right now. Gee, I wonder why? ;-)
# October 27, 2005 2:18 PM

Stephan van Stekelenburg said:

Thank's for all the great work you guy's have done on this release.. I'm really anxious to get this great stuff in my fingers :P

Also SQL Server 2005 appears to be shipped today! Best day of my life so far (only 20 years old :P)
# October 27, 2005 2:19 PM

Maurice de Beijer said:

Great news!

I appreciate all the effort you guys put into this and like to thank you verry much.
# October 27, 2005 2:24 PM

Toolz said:

Congratulations! Looking forward to start using it!
# October 27, 2005 2:33 PM

Naseer said:

never could repeat the moment - enjoy!
# October 27, 2005 2:44 PM

Guido Stercken-Sorrenti said:

Congratulation, Soma (and everyone on the team)!

My customers will be glad to hear that we can finally stop using a beta version for doing their product! ;) To me, VS 2005 and .NET 2.0 have been the single most important productivity boost factors of the last years.

Cheers
# October 27, 2005 2:58 PM

Jeff said:

Rick - "Awesome! The wait is over."

...until you attempt to download it....then the wait is back on...
# October 27, 2005 3:00 PM

Klaus Enevoldsen said:

Congrats to you and everyone on the teams, I'm looking forward to trying it out - once it is downloaded from MSDN.

Now I'm looking towards Vista, WPF, WWF and ORCA, this is an exciting time!

Klaus Enevoldsen, Denmark
# October 27, 2005 3:03 PM

Saurabh Nandu said:

Congratulations to the compelete Dev Division on getting such a BIG release out of the door on (Before) time!
# October 27, 2005 3:06 PM

Vivek Ayer said:

Congrats! Looking forward to the launch event in London
# October 27, 2005 3:13 PM

Nick Hemdal said:

Get some sleep, and think about a sabbatical, or a 1 month vacation. The last MSDN drop was pretty tight, what was fixed?
# October 27, 2005 3:29 PM

Sonu Kapoor said:

Congrats!
# October 27, 2005 3:31 PM

David Christiansen said:

Congratulations! - You've made my night!...UK bandwidth is about to be heavily affected by us MSDN subscribers
# October 27, 2005 3:50 PM

cowgaR said:

Congratulation from Slovakia...

I am just waiting for SQL server and Express Editions to download and give it fast try.

Any info/link on these editions?
# October 27, 2005 3:53 PM

Robz said:

It totally made my day when I went out to MSDN and saw that. Then I came here to confirm it was true. ROCKZ!!!
# October 27, 2005 3:58 PM

Francis Shanahan said:

This is a big deal and an exciting time.
Great job guys and congratulations.
-fs
# October 27, 2005 4:15 PM

anonymous said:

defining moment!!
# October 27, 2005 6:26 PM

Jonas Antonsson said:

Congratulations from Iceland :)
# October 27, 2005 6:30 PM

nadim said:

congrats from ghana
# October 27, 2005 7:01 PM

Alex said:

Great job done!
# October 27, 2005 7:38 PM

Obi Oberoi said:

Soma,

What can I say!! You have conquered the hearts of scores of developers like myself who breathe and dream Visual Studio. Net.

I am one of the early adopters of VS.Net and I find it totally irresistible.

Obi Oberoi, Toronto (Canada)
# October 27, 2005 9:20 PM

loc said:

I can't comment until being able to use it.

I hope those things that I expected to be in there are all in there and really work and be useful. Otherwise, I wouldn't be as happy. Let's wait and see if anything sucks.

Thanks.
# October 27, 2005 10:18 PM

Scott Cadillac said:

Whohoo!!
# October 27, 2005 10:48 PM

vincem said:

Excellent
# October 27, 2005 11:37 PM

Christophe Pichaud said:

They have done it again !

Since Visual C++ 1.5, 2.x, 4.x, 5 & 6 et VS NET series, I am still with you !!!!!
All thoses products makes working in a good way. Using them 10 hours a day is comfortable.

<< Chapeau bas >>, messieurs !
# October 28, 2005 2:01 AM

thushan said:

Great work folks, best .NET release thus far! Now there's the wait for Orcas:-)
# October 28, 2005 2:43 AM

DBuckner said:

Just in time for my B-Day on the 28th. Thanks guys!!

# October 28, 2005 3:05 AM

Sami said:

Now it gets really exciting!!! Thanks!
# October 28, 2005 3:10 AM

Tom said:

Congratulations from the Czech republic!
# October 28, 2005 4:16 AM

kumba said:

Started working with the DOS versions of the MSC series. Still remember the german launch event for the first Windows version (VC1.0) very well, where every attendee a 5kg package with printed documentation!

Trust that I will be very pleased with VS05.
# October 28, 2005 4:55 AM

Geert said:

Did send it by ship? Put it on an airplaine!
# October 28, 2005 5:31 AM

Luca Maritan said:

Huge congratulations, guys! You've done a great job!
# October 28, 2005 8:33 AM

Justin said:

Will VS2005 be available for download through MSDN Adademic Alliance soon?

Thanks
# October 28, 2005 8:35 AM

Rajiv said:

Congrats Man
# October 28, 2005 8:40 AM

Luis Esteban Valencia said:

Did You released Visual Source Safe 2005 too?
# October 28, 2005 9:41 AM

anders ling said:

Great!I have waiting for it long long ago!!!!
The VS Team is Great!!!Thank you!
# October 28, 2005 10:24 AM

fnmp said:

Hiya,
Will it work with the WinFX September CTP release?
# October 28, 2005 10:45 AM

Dan Ciruli said:

Congratulations! Are you going to the San Francisco launch? If so--see you there!
# October 28, 2005 2:51 PM

vipul said:

Congratulations on the release of the of the biggest and (I hope) the best VS IDE from the Microsoft stable.
# October 28, 2005 3:26 PM

stephane said:

Many thanks from France :)
# October 28, 2005 3:29 PM

Gabisoft said:

Big news for us!!! We've been working with all the betas, since 2004, and we just love this new version 2.0. And VStudio 2005 is also great
# October 28, 2005 4:19 PM

Leo Rozing said:

Can't wait working with it!!!
Fantastic guys!

Keep up the good job.
Many congrats from Holland
# October 28, 2005 4:55 PM

David Hayden said:

Best set of development tools ever built by Microsoft.

Thanks for all your effort!
# October 28, 2005 9:37 PM

Somasegar said:

Yes, we did release Visual Source Safe 2005 as well yesterday.

- somasegar
# October 29, 2005 2:47 AM

George said:

We are excited about the new release after trying the Beta2 release. Excellent job and really happy to have a company like Microsoft who makes dreams come true from Developers.
Congrats again from Australia and God bless all of you.
# October 29, 2005 3:29 AM

Adnan Farooq Hashmi said:

Hats off to you. I have never seen any Microsoft release generate as much interest in Pakistan (and the world) as this one. Truly phenomenal!
# October 29, 2005 11:08 AM

Will said:

Congratulations! I downloaded from MSDN on Thursday and am quite impressed.
# October 29, 2005 2:56 PM

Abdallah said:

Very big and good work
Congratulations
# October 29, 2005 7:59 PM

Anand N said:

Namaste from India.

This is great news. I'm looking forward to install the product now itself. I can't wait more time.
# October 30, 2005 10:25 AM

RJL said:

Don't try to install it on Vista, it doesn't work, the worthless thing thinks you need SP2!

# October 30, 2005 6:23 PM

Giuliano Sauro said:

Congratulazioni from Italy!

This release is really a breakthrough in productivity.

All you msdn blogger guys have create a really great and exciting community!
# October 31, 2005 4:51 AM

Luis F. said:

Any clues where it is?
Because I can't find it for download anywhere on the site, and yes I am an MSDN subscriber. What a frustrating experience.
Shouldn't be that easy to find anyway, since Microsoft support couldn't do it either...
# October 31, 2005 5:02 AM

tim said:

I notice that if we attend a launch event in the US we get free versions of VS and SQL but in the UK we don't, just some sandwiches ... do you know why this is not a universal offer ? The tab on the MSDN web site says you will get complimentary software but when you follow through to UK ... its not on offer any more
# October 31, 2005 9:50 AM

release_team said:

To RJL: We’ve reconfirmed that VS2005 RTM works on the latest Vista October CTP (bld# 5231) and is also working on the latest internal builds as well. Previous Vista releases (Beta1 and PDC) still require VS2005 Beta2. We cannot find any issues regarding the “SP2” error you noted; if you could supply more information on this error I will make sure the right folks investigate it.

Thanks!
Chris Dias
chris.dias@microsoft.com
# October 31, 2005 3:40 PM

Divan said:

Great!!!

Just a pitty there's no product launch in the Southern Parts of the world!?

Thanks for the hard work to all the creators of VS 2005.

looking forward.

From ZA
# November 1, 2005 4:19 AM

Raj Nemani said:

Congratulations!. Looking forward to the launch event in Atlanta.

Thanks
# November 1, 2005 9:35 AM

Dean said:

Hey Soma, Great job on the visual studio. But i would just like to say publicly THANK YOU. For all you have done for me by helping me with my school assignements. You are a really great man and I think most highly of you.

Keep it up all the good work.

Dean :-)
# November 1, 2005 4:53 PM

Andras Ludanyi said:

Congratulations! Visual Studio 2005 is a real quantum leap. I hope "Orcas" will be even more amazing, can't wait LINQ and other cool technologies. Great job!
# November 1, 2005 8:23 PM

Sunil Jagadish said:

Awesome! Cant wait to get my hands dirty with it... :)
# November 2, 2005 1:00 AM

Pooja Katiyar said:

That's great!! Looking forward for the launch on 7th November.
# November 2, 2005 3:26 AM

Maro Shim said:

Congratulations!
I have one question: Could you summarize the difference between RC and final release?
Thanks.
# November 2, 2005 4:51 AM

Sudarshan said:

Great New Soma!!!!
# November 2, 2005 10:01 AM

Vinay said:

Super stuff :) Just downloaded it from MSDN - and gee am I looking forward to getting it up and running on my machine!!

Congratulations to you and your team!
# November 2, 2005 1:30 PM

franckylp said:

Congratulations to all of you !!! You can be proud of you
# November 3, 2005 8:02 AM

Joe said:

Do you guys filter the comments, since every one applauses ???
for us .NET is a pain, we will continue VB6
until you provide migration tools.
Joe
# November 3, 2005 12:33 PM

Somasegar said:

Hi Joe,

There is NO filtering of the comments on my blog. Every comment that gets posted is for all to read.

- somasegar
# November 3, 2005 5:04 PM

JRoxe said:

We've done substantial work in this version to address some of the concerns that were raised by Visual Basic 6.0 developers.

One site that you could check out is VBRun: The Visual Basic 6.0 resource center. This contains some of our best Visual Basic 6.0 content, information on using VB6 and VB .NET together, offers from our partners, and information for developers looking to move to Visual Basic 2005. We have two books from MS Learning that have been posted online as a part of this site.

The Patterns and Practices group has put together some guidance for developers moving their code and skills that you can find at http://www.microsoft.com/practices.

One feature in the product which will be particularly interesting to Visual Basic 6 developers is the addition of RegFree COM. This allows you to deploy a VB6 control without having to register it on the local machine. You can now reuse existing code without any risk of impacting existing applications and could even deploy different version of the same COM component side by side with different applications.

Many of our developers have told us that the soul of VB is back with Visual Basic 2005. The productivity that was the hallmark of Visual Basic is enhanced with features like the My namespace, AutoCorrect, scalable drag-and-drop data binding and the return of Edit and Continue.

If you have additional ideas on things we could be doing, my email address is posted on VBRun and I'd invite you to mail me.

# November 3, 2005 6:15 PM

Nag said:

Soma...congrats to you and all the team members involved in the release of the product. good job done folks....keep it up. hope to see the product in our development environment here and explore the same. One of the requirements that i expect from .NET Framework 2.0 is offering the FTP class for uploading and downloading the files from/to the remote systems. i read on internet somewhere that the FTP class is available in Framework 2.0 version. hope to see the FTP class available with this product.
# November 3, 2005 8:43 PM

lalitr said:

Congratulations !!!

Namaste ! :)
# November 4, 2005 1:34 AM

jtl12345678 said:

Congratulations !!! where to download?
# November 4, 2005 4:00 AM

Russ said:

Sorry to rain on your parade guys but...

Having been amazed at how fabulous VS 2002 and 2003 were, I expressed major concerns about this product while using the CTPs and the RC.

My concerns were well founded. It is the most painful Microsoft product since Vizact. We've installed it 3 machines and every around hour the VB compiler fails with a send error report (on different projects!) We then have to sit through 6 or 7 submit reports before it finally drops out of memory with a feeble apology.

Even the CTP didn't do this!

You have implemented some amazing things guys, but when the basics no longer work it kinda makes the whole excersize pretty pointless.

# November 4, 2005 7:21 AM

Somasegar said:

Hi Nag,

Here's a sample app that ships with V2.0 that demonstrates how to use the FTP class:

ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_fxsamples/html/7b16941d-2a77-4fb6-9ba7-40cd6d9897b7.htm

You use FtpWebRequest and FtpWebResponse to do the work.

- somasegar
# November 4, 2005 5:56 PM

Maheshkumar.R said:

Congratulations from India,BLR..
Even I too excited about this Mega Product release! Congratulations to everyone in this team, Who are all designed and introduced lot many things to finalize the product.
Really really ...it must be a great day for you all guru's.

Congrats once again !
Looking for the launch event in India especially in BLR.
gudos to VS Team and Somasegar
# November 5, 2005 1:39 AM

.NETUser said:

Hi guys,

Now that we have the final version of VS.NET 2005, my question is can we have VS.NET 2005 installed and safely working along-side VS.NET 2003 that I already have (which is my current production environment)? Has anybody had a rough experience in doing this?

I want to develop some projects in VS.NET 2005 and keep developing some projects in VS.NET 2003. To do this i will need to install both the environments (and the relevant Framework version as well) together in the same production environment.

Is it safe to do this - or should i use the Virutal PC to install VS.NET 2005?

Note: I have the final VS.NET 2005 version (production reelase, not the Betas or RCs), since I am an Universal MSDN subscriber.

Thanks.
# November 6, 2005 8:43 AM

dr_nitr0s said:

thx friend
# November 6, 2005 12:36 PM

humam said:

what can i say!!!
now you are bilding my dream !

thanks
# November 6, 2005 3:32 PM

nigh said:

I cannot find Visual Express RTM to download. All I get is beta 2 version. How to get the new Express Edition?
# November 7, 2005 12:50 PM

LukeH said:

nigh: The Express Editions can be downloaded from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/.

Thanks,
Luke Hoban
# November 7, 2005 3:45 PM

Pawan Singh said:

There does not seem to be any place to get CLRProfiler. CLRProfiler Beta 2 does not run any of the new applications created by the released version.
# November 7, 2005 4:03 PM

Vibhuti said:

Great job ! I am looking forward to the launch of Visual Studio 2005 in India. As a technical writer I want to know the major differences in VS .Net 2003 and VS .Net 2005.
Congrats once again
# November 9, 2005 12:51 AM

Somasegar said:

Hi Vibhuti,

We have a whole bunch of information including a feature guide out on MSDN. Here is the link to that - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/newfeatures/

- somasegar
# November 9, 2005 1:13 AM

Subodh Lal said:

Thanks a lot and wait for a great product is over.
# November 9, 2005 7:44 AM

Sammy said:

Well that's good, because 2003 sux. No need to give up 6.0 until I've put 2005 through the wringer though.
# November 9, 2005 10:58 AM

Vasudha Reddy said:

Hi Somasegar,

I can't wait to work on vs.net 2005 with sql 2005. Just wondering, do you have any free msdn events related to 2005 version as a cd or slides, where we can download..
Core information related to vs.net 2005.
I read so many articles related to vs.net 2005..
But it would be much helpful, if i can get as a download link.

Thanks,
Vasudha
# November 11, 2005 10:13 AM

Somasegar said:

Hi Vasudha,

You can download the Express editions of VS 2005 from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/.

You can also get trial editions of VS 2005 from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/trial/.

Also, depending on where you reside, you may want to attend the local launch of VS 2005/SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006.

- somasegar
# November 11, 2005 1:43 PM

Qamar Shahzad said:

Thanx to Visual Studio Team..
I am Qamar. I am MCP and want to learn new feature of Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 / SQL Server 2005 Quickly can you tell me the right way [qamar.gilani@gmail.com]
# November 12, 2005 3:16 AM

Vasudha said:

Hi Somasegar,

I'm looking forward to attend NOV 22nd session on Vs.net 2005 in NY. Also I have the trial versions installed.
Do you recommend any good books on Vs.net2005 and SqlServer2005 ?

Thanks,
Vasudha
# November 15, 2005 3:42 PM

Ranjit said:

Sir,

Congratulationsssssssss for the whole team.
I already worked on Visual Studio.net 2003.
I would like to work on Visual Studio2005 and SQL-Server 2005. Presently, I would like to know the difference between Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio.net 2003.
# November 16, 2005 9:41 AM

Somasegar said:

Since several people have asked for this again, I will repeat this. You can go upto http://msdn.microsoft.com and get a whole bunch of information about Visual Studio 2005.

Specifically, we have a feature guide for VS 2005 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/products/newfeatures/ that will tell you what's new in this version of the product.

- somasegar
# November 17, 2005 2:07 PM

.NETUser said:

Hi Somasegar,

I have VS.NET 2003 installed for my production use. I have VS.NET 2005 but have not installed it yet in my production machine, but would like to start developing future projects in 2005 VS.NET.

Can you confirm that having VS.NET 2003 and VS.NET 2005 (final release version) together in one production machine is safe.

Thanks.
# November 19, 2005 9:14 AM

Somasegar said:

Hi .NETUser,

Having VS.NET 2003 and VS 2005 in the same machine is absolutely supported. Having these two reside side-by-side is one of the key configurations that we support.

- somasegar
# November 19, 2005 3:32 PM

Pooran said:

Congratulations :) Hope to be there at India Launch on 9th December
# November 25, 2005 12:22 AM

Geek.Speak() said:

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# March 10, 2006 7:48 AM

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# July 19, 2006 4:51 PM

Rory Primrose said:

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# August 2, 2006 11:40 PM

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# September 17, 2007 6:09 PM

Padmakar said:

We are having a problem with the date picker control. It is hiding behind a drop down list while rendering. Can you please provide us a solution for this or a workaround for resolving this problem.

# November 25, 2007 7:23 AM

Padmakar said:

We are having a problem with the date picker control. It is hiding behind a drop down list while rendering. Can you please provide us a solution for this or a workaround for resolving this problem.

# November 25, 2007 7:23 AM

BradA said:

Padmakar - I am sorry you are having an issue... Is it with an ASP.NET web project or a Windows Forms project?  Can you tell me a little more about what is happening?

You can drop me an email at:  http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/contact.aspx

# November 25, 2007 4:14 PM

Abhishek said:

Hi, i m using crystal report .net 2005 in my windows application,in which there is a main report in which there are 4 subreport.at run time when i click on main report , subreport open in new tab, how can i restrict so that subreport will not open in new tab. can anybody help me?

# January 10, 2008 3:57 AM

Corey's .NET Tip of the Day said:

They released it today on MSDN earlier than the original 11/7 launch date. Here is some more information

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durga said:

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