Brad Jones
July 10th, 2001, 04:59 PM
If you attended Tech Ed and received the Beta CDs, you'll be interested in the following:
Dear Tech·Ed Attendee:
Today we identified a bug in early builds of the Visual Studio .NET Beta 2 CDs, which you recently received at Tech·Ed. The beta inadvertently contained a 30-day 'time bomb' that will cause the product to expire on July 31, 2001. To correct the issue, we are immediately sending out replacement CDs, which you should have well before the July 31 expiration.
The bug affects only the Visual Studio design time environment. It will not affect any of the code that you have written or the applications that you have deployed with Visual Studio .NET Beta 2. The fix means replacing the Visual Studio .NET program, which unfortunately means a reinstall of Visual Studio .NET will be required. To ensure that your copy of Visual Studio .NET does not time out on July 31, you will need to uninstall your existing version of Beta 2 and reinstall the new CDs when they arrive. Because we know this is an added burden for you, we are 'upgrading' your version of Visual Studio to the Beta version of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect, which is now available. This new version does not contain the bug and offers significantly more features than the version you previously received.
We are very sorry for any inconvenience that this causes you. While the uninstall/reinstall process will take a couple of hours, we are confident that you will still have a great experience with Visual Studio .NET Beta 2, and we look forward to continuing our support for your development needs.
Sincerely,
Yuval Neeman
Vice President - Microsoft Developer Division
Dear Tech·Ed Attendee:
Today we identified a bug in early builds of the Visual Studio .NET Beta 2 CDs, which you recently received at Tech·Ed. The beta inadvertently contained a 30-day 'time bomb' that will cause the product to expire on July 31, 2001. To correct the issue, we are immediately sending out replacement CDs, which you should have well before the July 31 expiration.
The bug affects only the Visual Studio design time environment. It will not affect any of the code that you have written or the applications that you have deployed with Visual Studio .NET Beta 2. The fix means replacing the Visual Studio .NET program, which unfortunately means a reinstall of Visual Studio .NET will be required. To ensure that your copy of Visual Studio .NET does not time out on July 31, you will need to uninstall your existing version of Beta 2 and reinstall the new CDs when they arrive. Because we know this is an added burden for you, we are 'upgrading' your version of Visual Studio to the Beta version of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect, which is now available. This new version does not contain the bug and offers significantly more features than the version you previously received.
We are very sorry for any inconvenience that this causes you. While the uninstall/reinstall process will take a couple of hours, we are confident that you will still have a great experience with Visual Studio .NET Beta 2, and we look forward to continuing our support for your development needs.
Sincerely,
Yuval Neeman
Vice President - Microsoft Developer Division