You either need an MSDN subscription, or you just pay for media and they
will mail it to you.
And your other question about playing well with 2K3 - I've had absolutely no
problems whatsoever. I've actually spent quite a bit of time working with
2K5 and dare I say, Beta 1 is not bad at all.. I actually haven't had one
thing go wrong.
Microsoft has CERTAINLY raised thier standards about what is ok to release.
I remember in the old days when a "beta" was barely usable and the release
was buggy. Now, the betas are pretty solid and the releases are rock-solid.
"_R" <_R@nomail.org> wrote in message
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PS: Is the full VS 2005 beta available for download, or does this
need to be shipped from MS. I know the individual C#/C++/etc
compilers can be DL'd, but I'm not sure if those are commandline-
only. I'm looking for the full Visual Studio dev environment.
Thanks