I downloaded and installed Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 today. It installed fine. But when I started it I got 5 messageboxes saying
"Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load properly (GUID={6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-387943875B7C)}. Please contact package vendor for assistance. Aplication restart is recommened, due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future? You may use VWDExpress / resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading."
I created a new web application and tried to open a web form in design view. I got an warning message saying
Warning 1 Could not load type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.SVsSmartOpenScope' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.8.0, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. 0 0
I couldn't use the designer, I couldn't drag any controls on the form.
I googled and found this link that helped me solve the problem
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2098