Finally!

I’ve made four (4) attempts to order the Visual Studio 2005 Beta DVDs, starting in January I think. Three times I got nothing. This fourth time I had more or less given up hope, and wasn’t expecting much, but since it didn’t cost me anything I clicked again. And it worked!

I wonder if MS just has really appallingly bad shipping systems, or if some Royal Mail employees steal everything that is labelled Microsoft. Both seem quite possible. Royal Mail hasn’t exactly excelled in the past. (Once they left me a note that I had a package to collect, and when I turned up at the post office with the notice slip in hand, they couldn’t locate the package…)

I’ve had the VB Express beta installed for a while now, and enjoyed playing with it, but haven’t touched C# or ILDASM or any of the other tools. Lots of fun ahead now!