Holy smokes, it finally happened - VS2005 on MSDN Subscriber Downloads

Thursday, October 27, 2005

That's right, VS2005 has been posted for download. That groaning sound you hear is the MS servers being crushed under the load of too many downloads. So far Pro and Standard versions are up, as well as something called "Team Suite Trial Edition". Huh? Also, they've only posted the CD images - I'm hoping for DVD images soon.

Unfortunately, I'm just getting errors when I try to download it right now.

Update - It seems that which media you see depends on which server you hit. I went back in again, and the CD version was gone and the DVD version was there. I was able to successfully kick off a DVD download, and it's chugging along. Should be done downloading sometime next month. ;)

5 Comments

Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Chris Slatt - Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:08:00 PM

Not the only one, it's happening to me also and it makes me sad!

Justin - Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:17:00 PM

I'm downloading the DVD images not for both SQL 2005 Developer and VS Professional at 450KB/sec each.

Police - Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:28:00 PM

I was seeing the CD images with IE, but I couldn't download them, so I tried logging in with Firefox, and firefox saw the DVD images, and they are downloading now. Must have something to do with which server you connect to.

Chris Szurgot - Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:41:00 PM

I'm pretty sure on this, but don't quote me exactly - I think the team suite is an additional purchase and doesn't get included in the subscriber downloads, even if you're universal.

Matt Hawley - Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:12:00 PM

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