Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Visual Studio 2003 SP1 is finally here

Finally, the long overdue, first and possibly the last, and much anticipated Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2003 is released. You can download the 156MB package from the download page. The service pack offers no new features, but it fixes many bugs listed in the bug list.

One of the fix that looks promising is no. 832714: "Visual Studio cannot open a Web site if a duplicate Web site exists". This problem often happens when I opened a fresh new web project from the SourceSafe and I manually creates virtual directory for the web project. However, I haven't tested this fix yet.

The installation of SP1 requires Visual Studio 2003 CD 1, so make sure you keep it handy. If your team has several developers, it's more efficient to copy the CD to a shared network drive and point the installer to look at the shared drive.

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