> I'm pleased to announce that Bill Gates -- in his keynote speech at COMDEX

> tonight a few moments ago -- just announced that Beta1 of the .NET

> Framework SDK, ASP.NET and Visual Studio.NET are now available for public

> download.  This marks a key milestone in our march to establish the new

> .NET Platform.

> 

> You can now download and install the .NET Framework SDK (including

> ASP.NET) from http://msdn.microsoft.com/net.  MSDN Universal Subscribers

> can also download Visual Studio.NET from the Universal Subscriber

> Downloads section as well.

> 

> For those of you with limited bandwidth, you can order CDs of the betas to

> be sent to you (for a minor charge to cover shipping) from the below URLs:

> 

> .NET Framework SDK CD:

> http://developerstore.com/devstore/product.asp?productID=7597

> Visual Studio.NET CD:

> http://developerstore.com/devstore/product.asp?productID=7591

> 

> We have deliberately focused on quality with this release, rather than

> make it a date driven event.  I know a number of people have found the

> time delay from the Preview Release frustrating -- but we think it will be

> worth the wait.  Our goal with Beta1 is to ensure that we "enable the

> development experience with the platform" -- meaning that there should be

> nothing stopping developers from developing great .NET applications.

> 

> Installing Notes:

> 

> Please make sure you completely uninstall the preview release (by running

> the uninstall program that it shipped with) before installing beta1.  As

> with all betas, there are standard caveats with installing on systems with

> existing betas (the standard line with beta software is that you should

> clean the machine before upgrading).  However, we believe that you should

> be able to upgrade simply by uninstalling the preview sdk and installing

> the beta1 sdk.  

> 

> Important Note: those users who have the preview edition of the visual

> studio.net IDE (ie: those who went to the PDC) should definitely consider

> reinstalling their system (I've seen a few firsthand upgrade scenarios

> where the debugger stops working, etc).

> 

> ASP+ to ASP.NET Name Change: 

> 

> One of the first things you'll notice when installing the beta1 bits is

> that ASP+ is no longer called ASP+.  Instead, we've made a slight name

> change with Beta1 -- to ASP.NET instead.  Ultimately we felt that this

> name more tightly linked the product to the overall .NET Framework.  It

> doesn't imply any technical direction change -- just a marketing thing.  

> 

> ASP.NET Web Site:

> 

> When making the name change, we also took the opportunity to acquire the

> http://www.asp.net URL (just type "asp.net" in your address bar in IE to

> get there).  Our goal is to use the site as a central place that we can

> point new users interested in downloading the bits and obtaining pointers

> to more about the product -- specifically containing pointers to all of

> the ASP.NET community sites as well as published books and magazines.  Our

> goal with the site is to drive additional traffic towards the great

> ASP.NET content centers out there today.  Our plan will be to go live with

> the site Monday or Tuesday.  Start pointing your friends to it to get

> started with the product.

> 

> ASP.NET Beta1 Platform Support:

> 

> ASP.NET Beta1 will now work on both NT4 (with IIS4) and Win2k (with IIS5).

> Note that our testing in the Beta1 timeframe has been more rigorous on

> Win2k than NT4 (this will be fixed for beta2 and RTM) -- so the "best" OS

> to run ASP.NET on in Beta1 will still be Win2k.  However, those of you who

> previously couldn't play with ASP.NET because it only ran on Win2k no

> longer have an excuse. ;-)

> 

> Note that the client pieces of the .NET Framework (WinForms, Data, XML,

> etc) will also work on Win98, WinME, NT4 and Win2k (as will Visual

> Studio.NET). 

> 

> Updated QuickStarts and Sample Applications:

> 

> Beta1 contains a much expanded .NET Framework Quickstart (now with

> Javascript samples, VB as the primary sample language, etc).  In all it

> now contains almost 900 samples -- and is a great way to get started with

> the product.  IBuySpy -- available at http://www.ibuyspy.com -- has also

> been updated for Beta1 (you can download it now).  Note that with the

> Beta1 release we've also updated IBuySpy so that it can automatically

> install against either SQL Server or MSDE -- so everyone with the SDK

> should be able to run it fine (since MSDE is available as part of the

> SDK).

> 

> In addition, we will also have a "Intranet Portal" sample available soon.

> We'll send out pointers to it shortly.  We think you will be very

> impressed with it (it is going to be *really* cool).

> 

> Known Bugs:

> 

> Although we fixed just about every bug we knew about with Beta1 -- there

> was one that we were unable to "safely fix" in the Beta1 timeframe.  This

> is the application unloading bug that also existed in the PDC release, and

> results in a memory leak every time a web application is reset (ie: a file

> is changed in the "bin" directory, global.asax is updated, or a config

> file is modified on a running application).  Note that this bug does not

> effect running applications in production (you only run into it when

> actively making changes to an application).  

> 

> We have just checked in the fix to the Beta2 tree -- however, we deemed

> the resolution too big a change to attempt for beta1 (we want a few weeks

> coverage on it before we declared it fully resolved).  As a result, for

> Beta1 you will probably see the memory usage of the xspwp.exe process

> being higher than expected as a result.  Note that the ASP.NET process

> model in Beta1 will automatically detect and recover from this leak once

> the process grows beyond 40% of the total virtual memory size of the

> system -- so hopefully most users will remain somewhat oblivious to the

> issue.  However, I just wanted to give people a heads up in case you were

> wondering why the product seemed a bit memory hungry.

> 

> Summary:

> 

> Thank you for all your support and patience!  We think this release marks

> an important milestone.  We hope you find it does too. :-)

> 

> - Scott

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

Has anyone been able to Install the Visual Studio.NET BETA1?  After

downloading the MSDN images and extracting them, I get an error that files

can't be found.  After inspecting the path, the setup program is not

searching for the file in the correct path.  I also burned the images to CD.

This jumped the first hurdle, but it continually asked for the CD that was

in the drive.  Any ideas?



-----Original Message-----

From: Scott Guthrie [mailto:scottgu@m...]

Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 10:33 PM

To: ASP+

Subject: [aspx] ASP.NET Beta1 is Here and Available for Download





> I'm pleased to announce that Bill Gates -- in his keynote speech at COMDEX

> tonight a few moments ago -- just announced that Beta1 of the .NET

> Framework SDK, ASP.NET and Visual Studio.NET are now available for public

> download.  This marks a key milestone in our march to establish the new

> .NET Platform.

> 

> You can now download and install the .NET Framework SDK (including

> ASP.NET) from http://msdn.microsoft.com/net.  MSDN Universal Subscribers

> can also download Visual Studio.NET from the Universal Subscriber

> Downloads section as well.

> 

> For those of you with limited bandwidth, you can order CDs of the betas to

> be sent to you (for a minor charge to cover shipping) from the below URLs:

> 

> .NET Framework SDK CD:

> http://developerstore.com/devstore/product.asp?productID=7597

> Visual Studio.NET CD:

> http://developerstore.com/devstore/product.asp?productID=7591

> 

> We have deliberately focused on quality with this release, rather than

> make it a date driven event.  I know a number of people have found the

> time delay from the Preview Release frustrating -- but we think it will be

> worth the wait.  Our goal with Beta1 is to ensure that we "enable the

> development experience with the platform" -- meaning that there should be

> nothing stopping developers from developing great .NET applications.

> 

> Installing Notes:

> 

> Please make sure you completely uninstall the preview release (by running

> the uninstall program that it shipped with) before installing beta1.  As

> with all betas, there are standard caveats with installing on systems with

> existing betas (the standard line with beta software is that you should

> clean the machine before upgrading).  However, we believe that you should

> be able to upgrade simply by uninstalling the preview sdk and installing

> the beta1 sdk.  

> 

> Important Note: those users who have the preview edition of the visual

> studio.net IDE (ie: those who went to the PDC) should definitely consider

> reinstalling their system (I've seen a few firsthand upgrade scenarios

> where the debugger stops working, etc).

> 

> ASP+ to ASP.NET Name Change: 

> 

> One of the first things you'll notice when installing the beta1 bits is

> that ASP+ is no longer called ASP+.  Instead, we've made a slight name

> change with Beta1 -- to ASP.NET instead.  Ultimately we felt that this

> name more tightly linked the product to the overall .NET Framework.  It

> doesn't imply any technical direction change -- just a marketing thing.  

> 

> ASP.NET Web Site:

> 

> When making the name change, we also took the opportunity to acquire the

> http://www.asp.net URL (just type "asp.net" in your address bar in IE to

> get there).  Our goal is to use the site as a central place that we can

> point new users interested in downloading the bits and obtaining pointers

> to more about the product -- specifically containing pointers to all of

> the ASP.NET community sites as well as published books and magazines.  Our

> goal with the site is to drive additional traffic towards the great

> ASP.NET content centers out there today.  Our plan will be to go live with

> the site Monday or Tuesday.  Start pointing your friends to it to get

> started with the product.

> 

> ASP.NET Beta1 Platform Support:

> 

> ASP.NET Beta1 will now work on both NT4 (with IIS4) and Win2k (with IIS5).

> Note that our testing in the Beta1 timeframe has been more rigorous on

> Win2k than NT4 (this will be fixed for beta2 and RTM) -- so the "best" OS

> to run ASP.NET on in Beta1 will still be Win2k.  However, those of you who

> previously couldn't play with ASP.NET because it only ran on Win2k no

> longer have an excuse. ;-)

> 

> Note that the client pieces of the .NET Framework (WinForms, Data, XML,

> etc) will also work on Win98, WinME, NT4 and Win2k (as will Visual

> Studio.NET). 

> 

> Updated QuickStarts and Sample Applications:

> 

> Beta1 contains a much expanded .NET Framework Quickstart (now with

> Javascript samples, VB as the primary sample language, etc).  In all it

> now contains almost 900 samples -- and is a great way to get started with

> the product.  IBuySpy -- available at http://www.ibuyspy.com -- has also

> been updated for Beta1 (you can download it now).  Note that with the

> Beta1 release we've also updated IBuySpy so that it can automatically

> install against either SQL Server or MSDE -- so everyone with the SDK

> should be able to run it fine (since MSDE is available as part of the

> SDK).

> 

> In addition, we will also have a "Intranet Portal" sample available soon.

> We'll send out pointers to it shortly.  We think you will be very

> impressed with it (it is going to be *really* cool).

> 

> Known Bugs:

> 

> Although we fixed just about every bug we knew about with Beta1 -- there

> was one that we were unable to "safely fix" in the Beta1 timeframe.  This

> is the application unloading bug that also existed in the PDC release, and

> results in a memory leak every time a web application is reset (ie: a file

> is changed in the "bin" directory, global.asax is updated, or a config

> file is modified on a running application).  Note that this bug does not

> effect running applications in production (you only run into it when

> actively making changes to an application).  

> 

> We have just checked in the fix to the Beta2 tree -- however, we deemed

> the resolution too big a change to attempt for beta1 (we want a few weeks

> coverage on it before we declared it fully resolved).  As a result, for

> Beta1 you will probably see the memory usage of the xspwp.exe process

> being higher than expected as a result.  Note that the ASP.NET process

> model in Beta1 will automatically detect and recover from this leak once

> the process grows beyond 40% of the total virtual memory size of the

> system -- so hopefully most users will remain somewhat oblivious to the

> issue.  However, I just wanted to give people a heads up in case you were

> wondering why the product seemed a bit memory hungry.

> 

> Summary:

> 

> Thank you for all your support and patience!  We think this release marks

> an important milestone.  We hope you find it does too. :-)

> 

> - Scott

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

Chris,



I had some of the same problems.  What I did was copy all the install files

from both CDs to a directory on my PC and ran the install from there.  It

seems to have worked.



I also specified not to install the FoxPro options, so there may have been

some installation files missing in that area.