Visual Studio .NET Beta Has Time-Bomb Bug

For Microsoft, a second test, in its upcoming Visual Studio. NET development environment and integrate into the hands of end-users is one of its biggest priorities, in last months TechEd conference in Atlanta.

Microsoft now requires "time bomb" Bugs in Visual Studio. NET, however, development, installation of the software may eventually use it to only slightly more than one month.

Software giant sent a memo Thursday to remind the recent TechEd conference participants to the question of its Visual Studio. NET version of the test may lead to some features in the software to "terminate", July 31.

Microsoft stressed that this issue would only affect the design time environment Visual Studio. NET in the Beta 2, which means that a new generation of customers already using the toolkit to write or deployment of applications should not be affected. Users in the complex and changeable based on a sustainable development project Visual Studio. NETs likely to be affected, however.

Experts suggest that the majority of the participants received copies of the Visual Studio. NET Beta 2 of the possibility to do is to play it.

"Under normal circumstances, you do not use a product testing and the development of any mission-critical, and, if a problem occurs, and rest, you really can not hold Microsoft accountable," Note fined, a senior analysis information and consultancy division Gigabit group.

In the memo, attributed to a technical future of the Associated Press, vice president of the development sector with Microsoft, the software giant promised, developers will be issued new, corrected Visual Studio. NET compact discs, July 31. The software giant also said that the bug free Visual Studio. NET CD-ROM version of the test, upgrade users to enterprise architects version of the software, it said, is not subject to the so-called "time bomb".

But some users said that the issue will become more complex, from Microsofts request that the Visual Studio. NET Beta 2 of the unloading prior to installing the fixed version. "Test version of the package, with little clean uninstall routines, there is the opportunity to remove [Visual Studio. NET-based Beta 2] you can really hose system, "a users concerns.

While Microsoft hopes that users will want to install Visual Studio. NET, and began to familiarize themselves with it, Gigabit stem Enderle) that most users to install test kit is probably not going to use it as a basis for the development of mission-critical projects. In addition, Enderle) that the potential damage a mistake, it is a mitigation of the fact that it can only occur in Visual Studio. NET development environment, and it does not affect the application procedures have been written or deployment.

"Of course, this is possible folks will be affected by this, but it is only part of our design time environment, and did not affect the applications themselves," Enderle).

Another user that the "time bomb" of mistakes, not everyone is a big problem. "If you are worried about unloading it, in the just-concluded date and time to return to your system," he suggested. "This is only a test environment for the sound of loud." In TechEd, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates promised, the company will complete code for Visual Studio. NET in this calendar year. Stephen swoyer