July 18, 2001

rue to its word, on June 18, Microsoft released Visual Studio.NET Beta 2 to the eagerly awaiting attendees of Tech?Ed 2001 in Atlanta. The availability of this second (and last?) pre-RTM public beta of the new Visual Studio.NET development suite offers a glimpse of the new suite, including the much

s the first new commercial language Microsoft has introduced since Visual Basic 1.0 in 1991 (FoxPro was acquired in June 1992), C# is quickly garnering heavy attention from interested spectators and hardcore developers alike. Beta 2 (released on June 18) incorporates a number of changes as Microsoft polishes the language