This is a cool idea. They have posted a VPC image to the MSDN Subscribers downloads. The VPC image has everything you need to start playing with Whidbey and Yukon. The contents:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (expires September 16, 2006) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Beta 2 (expires May 1, 2006) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Redistributable Package Beta 2 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition Microsoft Live Communication Server 2003 The download looks to be 2.
Do you use the ResourceManager to pull strings from embedded resource files (.resx)? This technique is a good way to store string values for localization or centralization of common strings. Here is a code snippet:
ResourceManager rm = new ResourceManager(“ResourceTest.strings”, Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly());
Console.WriteLine(rm.GetString(“accountNotFoundMsg”));
The two lines above assume that there is a strings.resx file in the project that has a named string of “accountNotFoundMsg”. When the second line runs the resource manager extracts the value of the accountNotFoundMsg from the embedded resource and writes it to the console.
I heard about this last night at Nino’s presentation: Channel 9 has a page dedicated to showing what CTPs and Betas work with each other: CTPMadness. Given my previous Indigo woes, this type of information is great!
It’s all based on an XML file that they update with new versions of CTPs and betas and then links which ones work with what. Pretty slick.