How stable is VS2010 beta 2?

Question

Would you use it to build a project? (C++, in particular)

Is it at all legal?

Answer 1

It has "go live" license.

http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2009/10/19/going-live-with-visual-studio-2010-beta-2.aspx

Answer 2

I am not commenting about VS2010 per se but in general the Beta tag would cause me to hesitate to depend on it to build a production application. I am sure that it is quite stable and will hardly change before the final release but...there is a chance. The beta is permission for Microsoft to change things if they discover bugs etc.

Is there a particular feature that you require that you cannot do without until the final release? I am a cautious person so maybe its only me. But I usually tend to wait for final release of software before betting my applications on them.

Answer 3

I spent some time working with both Beta 1 and Beta 2. Neither me nor my developers experienced any "stability" problems. It does not mean that there aren't any of course.

The reason I did it this early is new and absolutely wonderful editor extensibility model - to do all did (code completion, syntax colorization, etc.) in the old model is prohibitively difficult.

Answer 4

We need the features of Entitty Framework v4 with self-tracking features to remove our tedious codes for our DLINQ data access layer. I tried to share entity classes built with vs 2010 to colleageus using Visual Studio 2008, but it didn't work because vs2008 can't load assemblies built by vs2010.

If very few people say it's not table, we may go ahead to upgrade vs2008 to vs2010 very soon.

Generally, I also find vs2010 is quite stable.

Answer 5

I've been building and shipping a C++ application with a 500,000 line codebase for a couple of months with VC2010 Beta 2. No issues so far, no regression. Pretty good, the intellisense for C++ finally works flawlessley. So I would say, very stable.