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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Hotfixes

VS Service Pack 1
The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta Program closed on October 30, 2006. More than 10,000 users participated in this program and they have reviewed over 350 bugs and suggestions. The Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta and Visual Studio 2005 TFS SP1 Beta are still available for download on the Microsoft Download Center. After closing the program I hope they will soon release the gold version.

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 will focus on addressing product issues reported since the release of Visual Studio 2005. Hotfixes included in the Beta Service Packs:

KB Article Fix Description
KB898904 Update to the Web Project Conversion Wizard in Visual Studio 2005
KB909350 FIX: You receive LNK2001 and LNK1120 error messages when you use the Vcbuild.exe command-line tool to build a Visual C++ solution
KB910275 FIX: The customized color code marker that is actually added may differ from the customized color code marker that you try to add in Visual Studio 2005
KB910832 FIX: The IDE stops responding when you work with nested generic types in C# in Visual Studio 2005
KB911281 FIX: A native application takes a long time to start when you try to debug the application by using Visual Studio 2005
KB912019 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
KB913377 FIX: IntelliSense may stop working, and Visual Studio may crash, when you try to open a large Managed C++ project in Visual Studio 2005
KB913432 FIX: The IDE stops responding when you build a project that generates lots of text in the Output window in Visual Studio 2005
KB913940 An attributed ATL-based COM server unexpectedly exits in Visual Studio 2005
KB913951 FIX: The browser may stop responding when you scroll through a Visual J# 2005 Web page that contains a J# Browser Control
KB913996 FIX: Error message when you use the debugger in Visual Studio 2005 to debug an MFC class library application: "Managed Debugging Assistant 'Loader Lock' has detected a problem in ''"
KB915038 FIX: You may receive Visual Basic compiler error messages when you are developing a Visual Basic 2005 project in Visual Studio 2005
KB915110 FIX: Visual Studio 2005 may stop responding when you build a Web application project that is checked out of Visual SourceSafe
KB915364 Update to support Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects
KB915418 FIX: An access violation may occur when you try to run a Visual C++ 2005 application that contains OMG CORBA IDL code
KB915423 FIX: Error message when you use certain code patterns that involve the IDisposable interface in the Visual Studio 2005 C++ compiler: "Fatal error C1001"
KB915781 FIX: You may receive an incorrect error message when you open a Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office document
KB916632 FIX: All the applications that use the C run-time library may not start after you install Visual Studio 2005 and then you uninstall Visual Studio 2005 without restarting the computer
KB916688 FIX: Error message when you try to use the Visual SourceSafe 2005 LAN booster service together with Visual Studio 2005 on a server that is running Windows 2000: "Unable to use SourceSafe LAN service"
KB916769 FIX: The Visual Studio 2005 IDE stops responding when you work with a large Visual C++ .NET solution in Visual Studio 2005
KB916812 FIX: The report does not print the first time that you click Print when you try to print the report from the Report Viewer control in Visual Studio 2005
KB917036 FIX: The Visual Studio 2005 IDE may corrupt the deployment files for a Web Setup Project and for a Setup Project
KB917141 FIX: The position of the Properties window may not be saved after you exit Visual Studio 2005 on a dual-monitor system
KB917147 FIX: The Cole Property Page object of a Visual C++ application may be deleted when the Bound Property Changed function is invoked, and Visual Studio 2005 may unexpectedly close (crash)
KB917291 FIX: Custom build steps may not run when you add the custom build steps to a Visual C++ 2005 Win32 static library project in Visual Studio 2005
KB917327 FIX: Japanese, Chinese, or Korean characters in resource files may be overwritten by question marks after you convert a Visual C 6.0-based project to Visual Studio 2005
KB917452 FIX: You may experience performance issues when you use solutions that contain large Visual Basic projects in Visual Studio 2005
KB918373 FIX: The Atls.pdb file and the Atlsd.pdb file contain incomplete debugging information when you debug an ATL-based C++ application in Visual Studio 2005
KB918553 FIX: A floating-point exception may occur when an inline function in a C++ application returns an uninitialized floating-point variable in Visual Studio 2005
KB918559 FIX: You may experience slow performance and increased memory usage when you start the debugger for a Visual C++ project in Visual Studio 2005
KB919232 FIX: MS Project Work Item Publish Error
KB919280 How to rebuild the C++ STL library for Visual Studio 2005
KB919904 FIX: You may receive an error message when you try to build a Web project that references a .NET Compact Framework 2.0 assembly in Visual Basic 2005
KB920145 FIX: You may receive an error message when you consume an assembly that has an obfuscated generic type in Visual Studio 2005
KB920770 FIX: You may receive a "Fatal error C1902" error message and a solution build may fail when you try to use the AT command or a scheduled task to automate a build of a C or C++ project in Visual Studio 2005
KB920805 FIX: You may experience slow performance when you work with a Visual Basic solution that contains many projects in Visual Studio 2005
KB923147 FIX: Visual Studio 2005 exits unexpectedly when you try to edit an existing Data Table object or add a new Data Table object to the dataset that you are editing

TFS Service Pack 1

  • Version Control - WorkItem Tracking and Datawarehouse performance/scale improvements.
  • "Extranet support" - An ISAPI filter is implemented that will allow the intranet to use NTLM and integrated auth while the extra net uses basic auth.  This enables TFS to be more easily deployed in environments where people on the Internet need to be able to access TFS without having VPN.
  • WIT Custom Control support - This is a mechanism by which people can design work item forms that host custom controls.  The data behind the controls can either be persisted in WIT fields or elsewhere. 
  • Support for Office 2007 support (Project and Excel - no SharePoint 2007 support yet)

    Please don't try to install TFS with SharePoint 2007 at this point - it will not work.  Microsoft is working on SharePoint 2007 support for Orcas - it will not be in SP1.
  • Detailed Merge History - In V1 not all information was exposed from the server necessary to build all of the sophisticated change tracking tools we use internally that track the flow of changes through branches.  The server "summarized" merge history information too much and information was only approximated. SP1 includes a new web service method and object model API that allows access to the detailed information.  The new API is called QueryMergesWithDetails on the SourceControl object.
  • Separating the SQL Analysis Services Server - For more flexible deployment topologies you now can install Sharepoint on separate servers, SQL Named instances, Reporting services on separate servers and more.  SP1 has one small step in that direction by including the change necessary to support TFS using SQL Analysis Server installed on a separate machine. 

Hotfixes
An other thing that caught my attention is is the DevDiv Hotfix Public Availability Pilot Program which is an initiative of the Microsoft team to help make the Visual Studio 2005 hotfixes more generally available. Of course you can download them, but you can also see that a hotfix exist and how to apply it if needed. Most hotfixes on the site aren't required if you are running the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta.

Posted: Nov 09 2006, 07:47 AM by Mike Glaser | with no comments
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