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I'm pleased to announce the public availability of ASP.NET Beta 2.   It

can be downloaded immediately from http://www.asp.net

<http://www.asp.net/>   Total size is only 18MB - making it ideal for

web download.  It will install and run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP

(both workstation and server additions). 







Beta2 is a major milestone in the ASP.NET project.  It contains all of

the features planned for V1, and meets an extremely high quality bar -

one that we feel confident will support production deployments of .NET

Web applications.  







A host of large scale applications have already gone live on ASP.NET

Beta 2 (we specifically waited to release Beta2 until all the production

bugs they found were fixed) and the list of these applications will

continue to grow over the summer.  Visit the sites below to see ASP.NET

Beta 2 in action today:







-- MSN Music: http://music.msn.com <http://music.msn.com/>



-- Office Update: http://office.microsoft.com

<http://office.microsoft.com/>



-- UDDI: http://uddi.microsoft.com <http://uddi.microsoft.com/>



-- MSN Yellow Pages: http://yellowpages.msn.com

<http://yellowpages.microsoft.com/>







With Beta2 we will be supporting the "ASP.NET Go Live" license - which

will specifically permit customers to use the beta to launch production

applications.  We expect this summer to be a fun period of web

development as more and more ASP.NET sites appear across the web. 







On behalf of the entire ASP.NET Team, I'd like to thank you for your

continued effort and support of ASP.NET.  It is really exciting for us

on the product team to see all of the interest and activity around the

beta today.  We can't wait to see it grow even more as we complete the

push to RTM. 







Happy Coding,







-- Scott







P.S. A few additional Beta 2 Notes:







-- Before installing Beta 2 please make sure to remove Beta 1 from your

machine.  If you have the .NET Framework SDK Beta1 installed you can

accomplish this simply by running the uninstall program (within

Add/Remove Programs).  If you have VS.NET Beta1 installed you will

unfortunately need to re-install your drive partition.







-- The 18MB download available at www.asp.net <http://www.asp.net/>

does not ship with local documentation or samples (it instead creates an

"ASP.NET" start menu that links off to online versions of these).  To

obtain local documentation and samples please install the .NET Framework

SDK (127MB download).







-- Beta 2 contains a large number of breaking changes from Beta 1.  You

will almost certainly need to update existing Beta1 code to work on the

latest bits.  Our plan is for Beta 2 to contain the final APIs for the

product - as such you should not need to make such major changes again

for RTM.







-- The developer solution application site at http://www.IBuySpy.com has

been updated for Beta2.  Tonight only the IBuySpy Store is available for

download - Beta 2 of the IBuySpy Portal will appear later this week.