{"id":14,"date":"2005-10-29T12:42:47","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T17:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2005-10-29T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T17:42:47","slug":"visual-studio-beta2-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2005\/10\/29\/visual-studio-beta2-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio Beta2 arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<b>Finally!<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;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&#8217;t expecting much, but since it didn&#8217;t cost me anything I clicked again. And it worked!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI 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&#8217;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&#8217;t locate the package&#8230;)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve had the VB Express beta installed for a while now, and enjoyed playing with it, but haven&#8217;t touched C# or ILDASM or any of the other tools. Lots of fun ahead now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! I&#8217;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&#8217;t expecting much, but since it didn&#8217;t cost me anything I clicked again. And it worked! I wonder if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky_things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}