Visual Studio 2005 represents one of the most significant developer tools releases since the introduction of Visual Studio nearly a decade ago. It offers all types of developers a wider spectrum of development possibilities and a greatly advanced design experience. By expanding the Visual Studio product line to include the Visual Studio Team System and the Visual Studio Express Editions, Visual Studio 2005 delivers a compelling toolset for everyone, from hobbyists to enterprise developer teams.
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 continues Microsoft’s investment in market leading development tools. Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customers and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. The issues addressed range in severity from places where the syntax coloring was incorrect to customer reported crashes in various scenarios. In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed were reported by customers through the MSDN Product Feedback Center and Microsoft Connect. Overall, Service Pack 1 offers customers improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance for Visual Studio 2005.
Through further advancement and feedback, Service Pack 1 also provides over 70 improvements for common development scenarios including:
Download: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) | 431 MB
View: Overview @ Microsoft Visual Studio Developer Center
Link to: Neowin Discussion
Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 continues Microsoft’s investment in market leading development tools. Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customers and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. The issues addressed range in severity from places where the syntax coloring was incorrect to customer reported crashes in various scenarios. In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed were reported by customers through the MSDN Product Feedback Center and Microsoft Connect. Overall, Service Pack 1 offers customers improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance for Visual Studio 2005.
Through further advancement and feedback, Service Pack 1 also provides over 70 improvements for common development scenarios including:
- New processor support (e.g., Core Duo) for code generation and profiling
- Performance and scale improvements in Team Foundation Server
- Team Foundation Server integration with Excel 2007 and Project 2007
- Tool support for occasionally connected devices and SQL Server Compact Edition
- Additional support for project file based Web applications
- Windows Embedded 6.0 platform and tools support
Download: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) | 431 MB View: Overview @ Microsoft Visual Studio Developer Center Link to: Neowin Discussion
YAY!!!!
the beta had some issues. hopefully those are resolved.
I notice that there seems to be a separate SP1 bit for Vista, but that appears to be a dead link.
Anyone used this on Vista yet? (Not at home to check myself)
"A copy of one of the supported Visual Studio® 2005 products must be installed on the target computer."
But seriously if your professional development box is Vista which hasn't 'officially' even been released then you have some issues. I suppose for the 1% of developers making .NET 3 apps this may be an issue but anyone else just wait.
But that's besides the point, I am a professional developer, but I was talking about my home machine on which I muck around a bit, try out things, and generally do stuff that I can't justify on company time.
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