Hello,



Does anyone @ Wrox or Microsoft care to comment about how many changes are 

going to occur from Beta 2 to the RTM version of ASP.NET.  I am wondering 

due to the fact that we have had a similar discussion in the c_sharp forum 

about the changes to expect and a spokes person from wrox mentioned that the 

team handling C# and the .NET Framework @ Microsoft were not expecting any 

changes for the RTM release.  Is this the same for ASP.NET?  Are the class 

library's going to change much?



Thanx,

-- Al

Albert,

         Speaking as someone who works for Wrox, I can say we're not

expecting any changes between beta2 and RTM. Having said that when the

Quickstart tutorials install, they install to an aspplus folder, and I

expect things like this to be ironed out to become the aspnet folder. 

As for

major class and library changes though, we're not expecting any.



Talking to the ASP.NET guys at Microsoft we get the impression they'd

release the product right now if they could. They consider it as good 

as

finished. I think what's holding them back is the intention to release

Visual Studio.NET and .NET Framework at the same time. Certainly I'd 

expect

more changes in Visual Studio.NET between beta 2 and RTM than I would 

in

ASP.NET, but yet again the word is, not much will change there either. 

Also

they're encouraging people to go live with ASP.NET beta 2 apps right 

now -

as indeed several MSDN sites have, which must be a good indicator.



However, one last word of warning, being a beta if they find a big bug 

or

hole, they might be compelled to fix it and make whatever changes are

necessary. They're shouldn't be any though, it looks pretty solid to 

me.



Chris

       



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

From: Albert Davis [mailto:albertdavis@h...]

Sent: 11 July 2001 13:54

To: ASP+

Subject: [aspx] Changes for Beta 2 to RTM





Hello,



Does anyone @ Wrox or Microsoft care to comment about how many changes 

are

going to occur from Beta 2 to the RTM version of ASP.NET.  I am 

wondering

due to the fact that we have had a similar discussion in the c_sharp 

forum

about the changes to expect and a spokes person from wrox mentioned 

that the



team handling C# and the .NET Framework @ Microsoft were not expecting 

any

changes for the RTM release.  Is this the same for ASP.NET?  Are the 

class

library's going to change much?



Thanx,

-- Al









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