Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta Update

Hello folks, I am a Program Manager with Developer Division and I am driving Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Community Readiness.

At this time, I would like to extend a warm thank-you to everyone who participated in the SP1 Beta Program. More than 10,000 users have registered for this program on Microsoft Connect and we are reviewing 400+ bugs and suggestions that you have submitted. I am glad we have had the opportunity to “close the loop” with you and listen to your feedback. This data is important to us and we will use it to improve the overall customer experience when this Service Pack is released in December.

One of the recurrent themes in your feedback deals with the amount of hard disk space and the amount of time it takes to install SP1. Heath Stewart, a developer with DDCPX, has blogged about these known issues. Heath is an active participant with Microsoft’s online-customer community and we encourage you to take a look at his blog for a better understanding of Windows Installer technology, and for some tips on how to reduce the install time and space requirements.

The Beta Program will end on October 30, 2006 - thank you for making this a success-story on the road to RTM!

Regards,

Alex Chik

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Program Manager

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 24, 2006
  Can you clerify what you mean by "the beta program will end"? We're still running into a ton of issues here. For example, SP1 made the IDE useless, and I had to scrap my VM and start over. There are hundreds of SP1-related bugs still open on Connect, and few have been resolved. Speaking of VMs, the enormous size of the SP is a huge issue. It increases the size of my VHDs by a GB or more. Can't you guys break it down into separate patches for the different editions? For example, why would people not using Team Suite want to download the extra bulk of team suite features? If I have Sql Management Studio, the TFS VS editor, and VSTS, then I have to have the same patch stored in the installer cache 3 different times. That's ridiculous. I hope you guys reconsider closing the beta so soon, and release another beta of the service pack instead. Thanks for your time.

• Anonymous
  October 26, 2006
  Rido on TFS: Change Connected User. Ed Hintz on Installing Team Foundation Powertoys on Vista. ...

• Anonymous
  December 06, 2006

1. Will there be a SP1 for .NET Framework 2.0 when VS2005 SP1 is released?
2. When is MS releasing SP2 for .NET Framework 1.1?

• Anonymous
  December 07, 2006
  I just had a co-worker, actually a used-to-be technical manager, ask me if there is already a Service