Walt Ritscher: Thinking about code

Hooray! Microsoft released the service packs for Visual Studio today.  These are a MUST INSTALL for anyone using VS.  There are plenty of bug fixes.  The two that I'm most excited about are the Visual Basic background compiler fix and the performance fix for compiling large projects.  Both of these issues have slowed my daily development consistently during the last year.

If you are an ASP.NET developer you'll be happy that the Web Deployment and Web Application projects are now included.

Microsoft has added some interesting new features in the SP too.

• Multicore support for profiling
• Multicore support for code gen
• Team Server performance improvements
• See the Microsoft website for more details

There are several version of the SP. Pick the one that matches your version of Visual Studio.

• Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 (includes SP1 updates for Standard, Professional, and Team Editions of Visual Studio 2005)
• Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server SP1
• Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions SP1
• Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista Beta

Seriously, if you are using Visual Studio 2005 you should install this SP as soon as possible.