Jelle Druyts

Psssst, don't tell anyone but Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 is out on MSDN! I can't wait to kick the alpha I'm running now out of the door (sure it's cool and all but it's really messing with my head lately) and install this baby. And if you think that's all, think again...

There's also a range of Express Products (lightweight development tools for non-professionals) which looks interesting if you can't just cough up the dough for the Visual Studio .NET flagship product and related tools. There's even a SQL Server 2005 Express! And there's a Summer Of Express Coding Contest over on Channel9 to promote these little gems...

Some other big news: the new MSDN Product Feedback Center is a place where you can get direct access to the Microsoft bug databases. You can search bugs, report bugs, make suggestions, get notifications if bugs you're monitoring change status, ... Wicked!

Anyway, sorry for bothering you with this - you probably read it all over the blog space today anyway. I just couldn't not post this