I'm amazed! Running all the betas on one box! Succesfully!

I have invested quite some time lately to get one environment in VirtualPC where I have all the betas running. That is: VS2005, VSTS, SQL2005, Team Foundation, VSTO, WinFX and BTS2006. GAT and DSL is still on the list ;-). So I can play with any one of them when I like to. Tonight I added Atlas, Workflow Services and LINQ to that same box without a problem. I'm amazed.

I find it unbelievably fantastic that Microsoft got LINQ running on a beta of .NET in a beta of Visual Studio integrated as it is. Sure, there are issues, but it works. You can actually play with it. Hats off for Microsoft for committing to developers so early in the development cycle and make it so easy to play with it.

I remember the days not to long ago where you had to read all the guides, looking for lines like 'the beta version of this product does not work with the beta version of that product'. Sure, the CTP builds breaks this, but if you stick to .NET beta 2 it all works.