April 19th What's Happening Around Visual Studio
It's been a while since I've done a look back on what's been happening on the team. I thought this time around I'd surface up the latest posts regarding our March release of the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) .
Installing Visual Studio 2010 RTM and Service Pack 1 Together - Heath Stewart published a comprehensive guide for administrators and developers who may want to install both RTM and SP1 together seamlessly.
Installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 May Prompt for Source - Heath also posted a work around for users running into prompts for source during their install.
Visual Studio Library Updates - Our Visual Studio ALM Developer Content Team published a collection of updated documentation for Service Pack 1.
New Local Help Viewer Available in Visual Studio 2010 SP1- Jeff Braaten has a series of posts related to our new Local Help Viewer.
Test and Lab Management Changes in Visual Studio Service Pack 1 Release- Check out Amit Chatterjee's posts regarding the changes made in SP1 for Test and Lab Management. His SP1 Beta 1 post has the majority of the changes listed that you can reference.
Team Explorer 2010 SP1 Bug Viewing Build Summary - The team made a performance improvement for viewing build information from the build explorer as a late breaking change in SP1. Unfortunately, this resulted in a bug when using Team Explorer 2010 SP1 against a TFS 2008 TFS server. A hotfix was immediately released for the issue that you can download if you run into this issue.
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Setup Switches - A quick tip on taking advantage of some of the setup switches that are available in SP1.
Visual Studio 2010 SP1 / Updated Report Viewer Redistributable - Brian Hartman published a list of fixes made to the Report Viewer that touched on the most common and visible issues reported by our customers.
Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) - The team recently released an updated version of the Async CTP that's compatible with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Windows Phone 7.
Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 - The team recently released LightSwitch Beta 2 that requires Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
If you haven't had the chance to download Service Pack 1, you can find a list of available downloads on our Visual Studio Service Pack web page.
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