Last night I finally had a chance to run the Visual Studio installer for Beta 2. It took long enough, but now I will be able to explore all of the differences from Beta 1 which I have been using to develop a lot of code for ASP.NET.
The changes appear to be somewhat minor, like changing directory names like Code to app_code but from what I am reading VS.NET does not automatically upgrade your Beta 1 projects to the new format. So In the interest of learning from others missteps I did a search last night on Blog Digger and found some useful blog entries.
Now based on all this information I am looking to decide if I migrate immediately to Beta 2 prior to a deployment to a Production environment with ASP.NET 2.0 or to stick with Beta 1. Either way, I want the people responsible for these decision to understand the impact and to also review the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Go-Live License which allows you to use Beta 2 in a Production environment but informs you that it is not officially supported beyond the informal community of .NET developers.
All in all I am feeling Beta 1 or Beta 2 is good to go. I have used Open Source software in the past and still do all the time and quite often the Beta releases are really quite stable. In the case of .NET 2.0 it also seems quite stable. MS is not rushing this out the door by any stretch of the imagination. It really seems they are genuinely learning from their past mistakes with instability and insecurity. Only time will tell.
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