scott guthrie (ms):

Our goal with Beta2 is to have as high-quality release as possible. Specifically, we have decided to not postpone any bugs to be fixed after the Beta2 milestone — and instead try to get all known V1 bugs fixed for the beta2 release. An ambitious goal — but one that we think will really deliver a great quality product.
We are also doing a lot of work to make sure that ASP.NET Beta2 will support production deployment of high-volume projects. Specifically, we are working with 11 MSN Applications (each with a significant customer volume) that will go live before Beta2 ships — to allow us to find any nasty stress issues remaining (ones that just don’t show up in a simulated test lab).

it looks like MS did their homework on this release. a quick look into the help files does not show any TBDs like it did with beta 1. also, many stupid bugs that were in visual studio beta 1 seem to have been eliminated. i think that with the missing docs in place and critical bugs fixed, .net will reveal its secrets more willingly than before.

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