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Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1 available

I'm working with VS 2005 these days, but I guess this can be helpful to someone: Microsoft has finally released a service pack for Visual Studio 2003. The list of fixed bugs and the release notes are available online.

This happens more than THREE years after the product was released, and after VS 2005 became available! Something is really wrong here! Now, how long will we have to wait for the service pack for VS 2005? Apparently it's still planned for Q3 2006.

Note: this may be old news, but it happened during my vacations.

7 Comments

  • make that more than 3 years after it's released. (2003 was released april 2006).

    (why is this font in this textbox so incredible small??? (in firefox).

  • LOL
    "New Feature: Browse without building"
    Not really a new feature, it was a feature of 2002 that they took away from 2003.


  • Hey, you're right! Somehow my mind wouldn't accept the fact that a software company could update and fix its product only after such a long time. Two years was already too much...

    (I'll try to see why the font is so small...)

  • I don't think the time between SPs is a problem. I've found VS.NET 2003 far from perfect, but good enough, and I'm not in a huge rush to deploy the SP to our developers.

    IMHO an SP for VS 2005 should be a much higher priority, hopefully with a version of Web Application Projects that works properly.

  • So, when is Q3 ending for Microsoft?, I really couldn't care less about the sp for 2003, all projects are ported for 2005 for long time ago, I'll newer look back. :)

  • I am Not sure how much of help will this SP for vs 2003 will be. Any one installing the sp1 will also have to think about any advese effect that might be possible to the application due to sp1.

  • Asside from the dll locking issue, for which I contacted MS and got the hotfix, I found 2003 to be a usable tool, but still I would have expected KNOWN fixes to common issues would be publicly released witout unreasonable delay.

    I would hope that VS 2005 is more of a priority than 2003 was; if not, we could have annother new generation of tools before the SP.

    Joe : If three years was ok VS2003 SP1, then its stands to reason that VS 2005 won't need a service pack until 2008.

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