Microsoft today posted the ATLAS bits that work properly with the September CTP or what has become the Release Canidate (RC) of VS.NET 2005.

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/eula.aspx?id=63C6B54B-AF8F-453B-869B-0438DBBB781B

I’m so glad – I’ve been screwing around with my Beta 2 VPC that’s seen better days and it’s not been an optimal experience. I’ve been working with Beta 2 for a while and it’s been a frustrating experience at times, but the RC is a huge step up.

Say what you will VPC development sucks. Even with an external HD hooked it’s damn slow compared to the main machine and if you end up switching back and forth between the VPC and host it’s really bad. Add to that the perf difference between Beta 2 and the RC and you end up really not wanting to run the VPC session <g>.  I was desperate enough to copy my beta 2 ATLAS project to the RC bits to see if it would run a few days ago, but that didn’t work. None of the ATLAS callbacks were working with some odd low level framework errors.

Anyway, now with bits running on my main machine the going is much easier. Onwards…