shadower, yes this is the March '04 CTP.

kesipyc, I have been using it a lot for the past week or so. There are some obvious bugs, but most are very small. All the major bugs (there are only a few that potentially impact me) that I have seen were listed in the Known Issues section of the release notes on the DVD.

The new features are awesome, but I would not necessarily recommend using this. VS2005 only compiles apps for the .Net Framework 2.0 (except for VC++ which can still compile for native x86, obviously); the binaries are not backwards compatible with .Net 1.x.

So if you plan to run any programs you compile in a VS .Net language (C#, VB.Net, J#, MC++, etc) on a computer with only .Net Framework 1.x (2.0 is not publicly available), then VS2003 will be a much better choice.

Regards,
Satyric0n