In the past weekend, I set up the Visual Studio 2005 CTP March 2004 edition. It was not a smooth ride. I am still slowly converting code written with PDC bits. Here are some notes.

1. The readme file is extremely valuable. Have a copy ready all the time and it would save lots of time fighting know bugs.

2. VS2005 CTP is not compatible with Yukon beta 1. Yukon would not start. I had to unintall Yukon beta 1 and installed SQL2K with sp3.

3. IIS Manager would not run due to a corrupted registry key. See the readme file for fix.

4. Web Admin would not run. There are no known fixes.

5. master attribute of Pages element in web.config file had been renamed as masterPageFile.

6. app.sitemap has been renamed web.sitemap.

7. Change ConfigurationSettings.ConnectionStrings[connectionStringName] to ConfigurationSettings.ConnectionStrings[connectionStringName].ConnectionString.

8. GridView: columnfields collection now becomes columns collection.

9. DetailView: columnfields collection now becomes fields colleciton.