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Easing access to hotfixes

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In our continued efforts to improve the availability of hotfixes for Visual Studio and the .NET framework, we've eliminated the registration requirement on the Connect site which contains our most commonly requested hotfixes.  We're looking into more ways to make product updates such as these even easier to find and apply, this improvement should certainly ease the acquisition process. 

Since we don't do a tremendous amount of testing with each of the fixes, I wouldn't recommend picking them all up blindly.  Instead, only pick up those that address a particular problem that you're experiencing and wait for the Service Packs in order to get a wholesale product update that's been fully regression tested.

Thanks!

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  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2008
    Hello Are you developing hotfixes for localiced version of Visual Studio (for example spanish VS2008)? Where can we download them if they exist? Thanks!

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2008
    Asier - Thanks for your great question. I didn't know the answer or who did so it took some time to find the right person to ask.  Here's what I heard back: Our commitment is to provide patches targeting all applicable language patches all the time, by default, without the customer having to explicitly ask for these. Since the VS2008 localized releases were not available until many weeks after the English product on 11/19, we did not have the ability to build patches targeting those languages (we cannot build patches when there's no product to build patches on top of in those languages). We have since introduced that ability. The regular hotfix builds we have kicked off since early this month have all been "all-language" builds. All patches built are now targeting these additional languages and that's going to be the norm. If there is a particular hotfix that you need that was released before we started doing "all-language" builds, please let me know and I'll see what I can do to help you..at least now I know who to ask! Hope that helps!   jeff

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2008
    As we continue to improve the availability of our Visual Studio and .NET hotfixes, we have recently begun

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2008
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