I normally wouldn't post about bugs in beta products (it's a beta after all) but this one is so annoying I thought people might like to know what I did to work around it.

Pre-beta 2 I noticed a rather annoying problem in Visual Studio 05 - some keys stop working.  Usually this is backspace, delete, undo, escape etc.  Everything but alpha keys.  It was very annoying!

So, I was a good chap and logged this on the product feedback site.  MS have recently responded and said that it will be fixed in a forthcoming CTP.  In the meantime,  I've been getting this a LOT recently and I was having to either restart VS.Net or reset the window layout - often 5 - 10 times a day.

The bug is caused by the tool windows (solution explorer etc).  You can usually get it to fault by pinning and un-pinning the solution explorer or properties window.

I found a better workaround.  Simply undock all the tool windows that live on the sides of VS and move these to your 2nd monitor.  Everyone has a second monitor right?  Well, if not, then you may not have room.  Since doing this a couple of days ago I have not had the problem.