VS 2005 - Beta testers - were there any?

I'm finding more and more difficult to justify VS 2005 as my development
platform, I continue to run into more an more problems especially on large
scale projects. Some of the obvious issues:

1. VS 2005 IDE is extremely slow (even on powerful workstations)
2. Builds can take upto 30 minutes or more (after a clean solution)
3. Interactive help is initially extremely slow
4. Missing many features in .NET 2.0 that requires either 3rd party or API
usage (still need JavaScript)
5. Applicaiton GUI performance is considereably slower than all prior
platforms (C++, VB6, even VS 2003)
6. Design/source view for web pages produces terrible code layout
7. web page control layout via VS 2005 IDE is very buggy (absolute/relative
coordinates often get out of synch with screen)
8. dual monitor and/or graphics driver incompatibilities
9. debugging is VERY VERY slow and adding more than 5 watches can make
debugging a futile experience
10. hot fixes are causing more problems than they solve -- getting a hot
fixes is phone only process - why?
11. many problems converting VS 2003 projects to VS 2005, especially web
applications
12. Master pages are very slow even when optimized with minimal controls
and postback checking
13. SQL 2005 SP1 update seems to have cause issues with VS 2005 -- need to
discover exactly what
14. edit and continue is not fully featured -- some edits will require me
to stop the debug sesssion and/or crash the debug session
15. assemblies are still not secure (even strong name)

I don't know where MS are going with .NET products, but clearly it is not in
any direction that could be deemed valuable to any business that has
"serious" applicaitons/features that need to be delivered in a timely and
secure environment. 5 years of trying to make this platform work with a list
off too many serious issues.

Perhaps this is not the fault of those that Beta Tested this on an
"official" capacity, maybe Microsoft just ignored all the Beta Tester's
issues in order to get something out. Either case I can't see VS 2005 being
considered a serious development platform for eCommerce or large
corporate/enterprise scale applications -- just too many problems and
missing features.

I really wanted this to work after spending so much time trying to overlook
and work around the daily wall of problems I run into while working with
..NET VS 2005. I think some of the issues might be solved with just a better
IDE as I could wait for .NET 3.0 to bring more features and faster web GUI
controls.

As for now...need to find a dev tool that works.


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