VS.NET 2005 SP1 (team suite) available for download!
Get it while it's hot: VS.NET 2005 Team suite SP1 RTM download (via Dennis)
Update:Scott Guthrie writes
that you should uninstall the Web Application Project add-in
first if you have that one installed, as the SP1 installer
chokes on that.
At the moment, the SP1 installer is already busy for more
than 20 (!) minutes to get started: first preparing, now
it's gathering required information, and it's sooooooooo
slooooooowww it's unbelievable. It takes 100% CPU usage on
my Xeon 3Ghz box and it takes such a tremendous amount of
time to even get to the copying of the files, it's hard to
come up with any rational reasons why this installer is so
awfully slow. The 'gathering required information' stage is
now already trying to get information for over 15 minutes
and the progress bar is half way!
A 3Ghz CPU is very very fast, this definitely doesn't have
to be so incredibly slow. What's also odd is that there's no
disk activity. So apparently it's simply doing in-memory
calculations and registry searches... wouldn't it be great
if data was stored in some kind of database so you
could query it and you got response instantly? If only a
company would create such a 'database'..... oh wait...
What's odd is that when you do a repair install, it's much faster. So apparently repair knows which elements are installed, but this SP1 has a bit of a problem with finding information. So be prepared to spend a loooooooong time on installing this service pack. With over 2200 fixes, it's well worth it, but be patient.
Update 2: oh no.... I had 2GB free on my C:
partition. During installation, it starts whining it has not
enough disk space available to install a file, I saw I still
had the vista iso downloaded from MSDN on the drive so I
removed that. I click the 'Retry' button... But that causes
an internal unexpected error
(yeah, ever seen an expected error?) and everything
rolls back. Now I have to start all over.
. So be sure you have LOADS of diskspace otherwise you'll
be repeating this Bad Excuse for Efficient Software
Engineering over and over again...
Update 3: Ok cleaned up some disk space, and I'm running the SP1 installer again. I now see it eats up 450MB (!) of memory. Erm... what? Ok, I'll stop wondering what this installer is doing behind the scenes, it only makes me sadder and sadder, just get the files on the disk, reg the darn dlls and be done with it...
Update 4: After more than an hour, it's finally
installed. Hurray... It eats away 1.5GB of diskspace at
least, more than 450MB of ram, for over 35 minutes 100% of
the CPU time because it had to 'gather information' (I have
no clue what piece of code can do that long to gather
information. I mean, reading all file information of the
complete harddisk takes 1minute 15 on my system...) Also, if
it rolls back because of an error (and it's pretty silly so
assume the worst: it can't skip actions like skipping the
Web Application Project add-in, you have to uninstall that
manually), be sure to remove the redundant .msp file from
c:\windows\installer, because it eats away 445MB at least
and for no reason at all.
So, let's hope the guys who wrote the installer didn't work
on the fixes. FWIW, VS.NET 2005 runs fine after installation
of this SP1, haven't seen any glitches yet. I do feel sorry
for these poor sods who have to re-install VS.NET 2005 some
time in the future and have to wade through this remarkable
silly installer again...
Perhaps they should add a sudoku puzzle to the installer so
you've something to do...