Microsoft nears Visual Studio 2005 SP1 release
CRN.com | at | by Mike
Microsoft by Monday plans to release Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, which bundles an assortment of bug fixes and performance enhancements.
But for Windows Vista early adopters, Visual Studio 2005 SP1 won't fix dozens of bugs that pop up under the new operating system. For those fixes, users will have to wait for the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista, scheduled for release after Vista's consumer launch on Jan. 30.
A full list of Vista compatibility issues is posted on MSDN. Problems range in severity from slow operation and missing buttons on some screens to certain templates vanishing in the upgrade process A beta version of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista will be released simultaneously with Visual Studio 2005 SP1.