OK, before you rush to comment and tell me that there is no such date as March 46th I know that. What I was referring to is a comment made at VS Live! in San Francisco that the next betas for Visual Studio and SQL Server would ship in March even if it was March 32 or March 45. Well by my math today would be March 46 and I just checked the MSDN downloads site. There are entries for Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. Be prepared to download for a while and possibly incur the wrath of your ISP. The ISO image for a DVD of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Beta 2 is 2.85 GB. The estimated download over a T1 is 4 hours and 22 minutes. It looks like there will be a lot of people very busy this weekend downloading and installing the latest bits.
[16 April 2005]
I didn't see the betas for SQL Server 2005 last night but I assumed that they would be posted and up tonight. I checked and not only are they not there, the Visual Studio 2005 betas are not showing up either. I am now wondering what happened to the downloads?