Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta

"During the development of Windows Vista, several key investments were made to vastly improve overall quality, security, and reliability from previous versions of Windows. While we have made tremendous investments in Windows Vista to ensure backwards compatibility, some of the system enhancements, such as User Account Control, changes to the networking stack, and the new graphics model, make Windows Vista behave differently from previous versions of Windows. These investments impact Visual Studio 2005. The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta addresses areas of Visual Studio impacted by Vista enhancements.
Many of the Windows Vista enhancements are documented at the
Windows Vista Development Center.

This download installs the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta for the following Visual Studio SKUs:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition
Microsoft Visual J# 2005 Express Edition
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Premier Partner Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Architects
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite
Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent
Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Controller
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Code Profiler
Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer"

LOL. Looks like MS listened to all the "VS2005 Team Suite SP1" confusion/fall out and made it very clear as to what VS editions this applies too... Thank you MS.

The question now is do I install it on my home/personal project production Vista machine or not? The machine is pretty clean now, with limited betas on it. And I don't want to fight beta uninstall gremlins with this goes RTM in January...

I think I've answered my own question. I'm already doing VS2005 dev that box and while not perfect, it does work.... sigh... I think I'll wait for this to RTM. (Or maybe RC? ;)

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