posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:18 PM
by
roydictus
Whidbey Beta 2 not before 2005, it seems...
Scott Guthrie, program manager for ASP.NET, reports on his blog that ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2 and Visual Web Developer Beta 2 have hit the zero bug-bounce milestone, meaning they are almost ready for release. But the team is now performing a 4-to-6-week security push to review every line of code in their system for security violations (as specified in Michael Howard's and David C. LeBlanc's book Writing Secure Code). This means that, very probably, Whidbey Beta 2 won't ship before January...
But I'm sure it will be worth the wait. Beta 2 is expected to be much more stable than Beta 1 Refresh (read: less bugs), and they are also overhauling the System.Xml namespace. It does seem, however, that refactoring support for VB.NET won't have much more functionality than "rename method". Hey guys, what's with that? Refactoring support is important, much more important than the My namespace (at least, that's how I feel about it).
Incidentally, if you want excellent refactoring support for C# in Visual Studio.Net today, check out JetBrains' super ReSharper tool. It supports renaming, extracting methods, turning fields into properties, encapsulating code with if or while constructs, templates and much more!