Looks like the RTM bits for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005
(Dev Edition) are up on MSDN now… time to fire up the downloaders.
We’ve got a number of MSDN Universal subscriptions and its now going
to be “decision” time. In some cases, the Developer edition of Team
System is fine… in others, Architect make sense. For still others, Test
could be useful. I’m inclined to go the “Suite” route so we don’t have
to decide at all, but it’s not clear yet to me what that’ll run us and
what the process for making that upgrade looks like. We shall see.
But we’ve got a new ASP.NET project starting up so, in the meantime,
we can run that version in “Trial Mode”… I’m not sure how it’s
limited other than expiring at some point (180 days, I think) and the
MSDN download page doesn’t seem to indicate what other constraints
there may be.
As long as this new version runs painlessly side by side with VS
2003 for our existing stuff, it should be pretty easy to get this
transition started.
