What is fixed in Visual Studio /VWD Express 2005 Service Pack 1?
There is a good post in the Visual Web Developer Team blog. There are basically three categories of changes:
1. New functionality added
2. Fixes for issues customers reported at MSDN Product Feedback (aka Microsoft Connect)
3. Crash reports we received when you click 'Submit to Microsoft'
4. Performance improvements.
New functionality
Typically service packs do not include significant new functionality since primary purpose of the service pack is to fix bugs. Implementing new functionality can potentially destabilize code base since the more changes we make, the higher probabilty of regressions. However, sometimes amount of requests outweigh risks. This time around Web Application Projects are included as part of the service pack. There are significant changes in the refactoring code so refactoring in Web pages should now be significantly faster. There is much better support for Ajax/Atlas controls.
Major bugs fixes
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Other customer reported bugs:
| DTS:VSNET05 IDE crashing issue while creating/opening ASP .Net application project. |
| SRX060719605181: PDB/XML file in BIN still pending source control when reopen solution from source control |
| Large amount of files in \bin folder cause IDE performance to be slow |
| Performance: Add option to turn off prop grid tracking in source view |
| Performance not good in html editor in large files |
| Default scripting language in classic ASP pages is jscript |
| Need to HTMLEncode the category value before placed in the generated schema |
| IntelliSense not working in content pages for ASP.NET AJAX asp: tag prefix items |
| Need to HTMLEncode the category value before placed in the generated schema |
| Validation gets turned on automatically upon view switch with errors |
Crashes reported by cusotmers (i.e. - "send error report"):
| Crash Location | # of Reports |
| DW Bucket 239321134: Crash caused by CSSPKG.DLL!CCSSCompletionSet::GetCount | 14 |
| DW Bucket 239182652: Crash caused by VSWEBDESIGN.DLL!CStyleSheet::LoadFromURL | 140 |
| DW Bucket 241786858: Crash caused by MSWEBPRJ.DLL!CVsAdviseListEnumerator<ILangFolderEvents>::GetNext | 14 |
| DW Bucket 242260654: Crash caused by MSWEBPRJ.DLL!CClientBuildManager::WaitForAppDomainResetEvent | 13 |
| DW Bucket 242424159: Crash caused by HTMLED.DLL!CTridentClientSite::IsSupported | 27 |
| DW Bucket 238744467: Crash caused by VSWEBDESIGN.DLL!CLSRenderer::BlastLineToScreen | 20 |
| DW Bucket 240078465: Crash caused by TRIDSN.DLL!CTextTracker::BeginTextHighlight | 19 |
| DW Bucket 239630140: Crash caused by VSWEBDESIGN.DLL!CBase::SubRelease | 16 |
| DW Bucket 242553048: Crash caused by VSWEBDESIGN.DLL!CTreePos::GetBranch | 15 |
| DW Bucket 335629143: Crash caused by VSWEBDESIGN.DLL!CStyleSheet::LoadFromURL | 23 |
Bugs found during internal testing:
| New Site, Ctrl-F5 intermittently raises App_Offline error |
| If project file is exclusively checked out, migration from VS2003 to 2005 does not yield consistent results or fail nicely |
| Performance: Cassini not loading assemblies as domain-neutral. |
| script stmt completion doesn't work against activex controls |
| Copy web crashes if you connect to a site that does not exist |
| Lots of validation errors when opening transient HTML documents for debugging |
| Opening the first XML file on remote web projects is really slow. |
| Unloading Web sites can cause P2P, MSBUILD and cassini settings to be lost |
| Launch file system (Cassini) web with vroot of "/" rather than web name, launch URL is https://localhost:12345/ |
| Error VWD does not support creating web sites on a Sharepoint Extensions Enabled Web Server |
| Editing MDF files does not work correctly in Web Application Project after F5 or CTRL+F5 |
Performance.
There are significant changes in the refactoring code so refactoring in Web pages should now be significantly faster.
Properties window is not getting updated by default in Source view. This improves editor typing responsiveness on lower-end machines. ScottGu has a great blog entry on the sugject with nice screenshots. You can always enable the window update in Tools | Options | Text Editor | HTML | Miscellaneous.
Opening XML files from remote sites should be much faster.
Performance is improved and memory consumption reduced when switching from Source to Design view in some master and content pages.