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Please use the comments area below as an area to discuss and ask questions about Visual Studio and .NET Framework Servicing.  You can find background information at https://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/servicing/.

Questions about topics other than Visual Studio and .NET Framework Servicing will get the best responses at https://forums.microsoft.com/msdn.

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  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2006
    This is a great addition to the VS environment - don't forget the x64 development community in your work.

  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2006
    Dasher, thank you for the comment. You can find more information about the x64 (and IA64) work we've done for Visual Studio so far at http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/search.aspx?q=x64.

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2006
    Having to wait till Q3 for VS 2005 SP1 is a long time to deal with some extremely bad bugs in Visual Studio. I hope some hotfixes come out shortly for the VB background compiler crash problem as well as debugging issues that are prevelant.

  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2006
    When talking to developers using Visual Studio 2005 for more than 6 months I got lots of feedback,...

  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2006
    Good day,

    We have developed in house a software for internal usage using Oracle forms 6.0.8.22.1 and which is connected to a back-end oracle 9i database . We are using Oracle report builder 6.0.8.22.0 for reporting. We want to move to .Net technology and standardize our application and to be implemented in our branches. What front-end .Net tool and reporting one do you recommend and what is the recommended platform to be run on? Appreciate your support

  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2006
    Really appriciate the effort to come out with an open plan. A lot of us have been awaiting offical news on the SP releases and this site keeps aside the rumors and makes MS effort very clear. Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
    Should these fixes not be on the list ? :
    910832 - FIX The IDE stops responding when you modify C# code in Visual Studio 2005

    and

    912019 - FIX You may receive an error message when you rebuild a solution and try to view a Windows Form in Design view in Visual Studio 2005

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
    I have a major problem with VS 2005. I have a Vb application that was originally written in VS 7.1 and migrated to VS 8.0.5. It has WinForm with a TabControl. Each Tab provide a full screen page with other WinForm Controls on it like Command Buttons, Labels, Radio Buttons and the like. Periodically the Tab Pages will appear in Design mode but all of the WinForm Control on the Tab Page are not visible. They are not deleted, just not visible. The Visible property is still set to true, but I can not see the controls. If I use the Properties page to select a control, an empty select rectangle will show up. The only way to get the control back is to exit VS and restart it. It is difficult to work with the forms without the control Visble. What is happening? Why do the controls dissapear? How do I fix this?

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2006
    I think this portal is a GREAT idea and look forward to announcements regarding bug fixes, etc. I think if we would have had this with previous IDE releases it would have made finding fixes and updates much easier than having to Google and dig through waves of KB's, etc...

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2006
    i would love to see an rss feed for:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/servicing/default.aspx

    This is the usual way i use such announcement websites

    regards

  • Anonymous
    February 18, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2006
    to Kristof and Andy Maggs,
    as regards to performance, I am using Visual Studio 2005 with SQL 2005 Developer Edition on a 2 year old desktop. Desktop didn't perform well until I gave it over 2GB ram. Is there a connection?

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2006
    Please, please can you release a hotfix for the vs2005 VB compiler crash. It is really annoying!

    I would also ask for SP1 sooner than Q3.

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2006
    A quicker and more focused release should deal with making Visual Studio 2005 stable. The project template features are a great technology adoption accelerator but has problems.

    By getting project templates working sooner the community could learn/test/harden the rest of .NET that much sooner.

    Also thanks tons for the great 'service status' (servicing) site. It should bond the community and the dev team in a good way.

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2006
    Shawnk, what project template features do you think have problems and what are the problems? I'd like to see if I can help sort them out.

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2006
    I've just been looking for a KB article on the VB 2005 compiler problems and can't find it. Is it that you aren't aware of the problem, or just haven't issued a KB article yet?

    When can we expect a hotfix for this problem?

    [Background: I'm using mixed VB and C# for a large-ish project using WinForms. Relatively often I get a crash dialog informing me that the vb compiler has faulted and I should restart VS. When this happens it often causes a cascade of errors that can take as much as 2 minutes to cancel my way through. Restarting does help in the short term.]

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2006

         dear sir,
               This is narasimha i having problem to load tree view and tab control in asp.net .In new version any advanced controles for these controls
    Regards,
    Narasimha

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2006
    Hello,

    Some of the bugs you are interested in seeing fixed may be on the MSDN Product Feedback Center (PFC) (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/).  We will announce which product feedback center bugs are included in Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 through each bug’s PFC description.  You will see comments arrive as we mark bugs for inclusion.  You can receive a notification about the inclusion of a specific bug by adding it to your tracking list.  To add a bug to your tracking list, search for it in the product feedback center and then click ‘Add’ beneath ‘My Tracking List’.  Please continue to give feedback as we are returning to the bugs and suggestions throughout the construction of this service pack and the next versions of Visual Studio and .NET.

    -Keen, PM - Product Feedback Center

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2006
    I am having a great deal of problems installing my new MS Visual Studio 2005.  Every time I try to do it, it comes up with the following: could not start the installer...and...could not start Visual Studios 2005. Then, it throws me to the error (I think its 1603) and asks me if I want to report it.

    I really need Visual Studio. Please help.

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2006
    Whats the deal with VS2005 seeming to just stop everything for a few seconds.  It seems to happen all the time especially when switching between toolboxes.  The larger the project, the worse the problem is.  Any hotfixes on the horizon for this?

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2006
    i'm not sure if it's the right place to post my problem.

    After installing VS 2005 BetaVersion, i'm unable to open the program, it tells me

    "The beta period has expired. Thank you for participanting in our beta program.
    You can now safely remove Microsoft Development Environment from your computer"

    I haven't even use the program nor install it on other machine before. If there's a expiry date, it should have alarmed me during the long installation.

    Any clues? Thanks.




  • Anonymous
    March 13, 2006
    Faith,

    The release version has been out since 11/7, and I believe all beta versions expired as of 1/1/2006.  You can get new trial versions here:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/trial/

  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    March 17, 2006
    Microsoft is committed to making customers successful with Visual Studio and the .NET Framework.  As part of this continuing effort, we are now announcing our target date to release the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta this month, (March, 2006) and we also have an estimated RTM release targeted for June 2006.

    At Microsoft, our Service Packs are broadly defined as a cumulative set of all Hotfixes, security updates, critical and other updates, as well as additional fixes for problems found by Microsoft testers since the release of the product. Service packs may also contain a limited number of customer-requested design changes to features.  

    We encourage all interested parties to sign up to participate in the Beta.  You will have the opportunity to use our pre-release product and notify us of any bugs you may discover.  You may apply for the Beta by going to http://connect.microsoft.com and signing up under “Available Programs”.

    Release Schedule:    (these are estimated dates)
    Beta Release        3/24/2006
    RTM                        6/1/2006

    Lee - Program Manager - Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2006
    Please, I will like to send this to express my appreciation for the nice and the great step by step info about your Visual Studio Software. Your explanation has helped me a lot for the computer Science course I am taking.

    I will like to know how I can download MS Visual Studio .Net Multi-language Compiler 2005, and MS Visual Studio Mult-language Compiler Version 6.

    Thank you for your corperation.

    Joseph  

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2006
    Robert, the first thing that I always do when having software problems is to use the web: Do a search on the exact error message(s) I'm seeing. In this case, I don't come up with anything for the error messages that you posted above, but I do find a KB article describing a similar error message "Windows Installer Service could not be accessed." Is this the message you're getting? If so, try KB319624 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319624).

    That said, I really should emphasize that this blog is not a forum for technical support. MSDN Forums (http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn) and Microsoft CSS are outstanding resources for technical questions. Typically, you're first few incidents for each purchased product are no charge when you call Microsoft CSS. Also, the MSDN Product Feedback Center (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback) is a great place for customers to file product bugs.

    Good luck!
    -Blair.

  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2006
    Thanks for the more precise release date for VS 2003 SP1.

    I am a bit nervous about upgrading to VS 2005 due to all the issues found here and elsewhere on the web. At the same time I appreciate all your hard work and hope that these service packs will address some of the stability issues with Visual Studio.

    There's nothing more frustrating than slow & buggy IDEs.

    Cheers,

    -Daniel.

  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2006
    It just dawned on me.  With the release of Vista towards the end of this year, what is MS timetable for releasing Orcas (VS 2007 presumably)?  I know most of the development technologies are available for VS2005 in the form of CTP's, but I am curious as to potential release timetables for new VS.

    Thanx,

    Robert

  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2006
    Software Updates for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework are always in the works, now we can follow...

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