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.