

As a result of such a scenario, users will be prompted with an error message explaining the issue.

The only scenario which won't work if you patch Team Foundation Server without patching Visual Studio 2005 is that any WIT Custom Controls you may have created with the new functionality that exists in TFS SP1 will not render unless you also have SP1 installed on the client," explained Brian Keller, Technical Evangelist for Team System. "While we certainly suggest that you install SP1 on all of your machines running Visual Studio 2005 or Team Foundation Server 2005, the team planned for the situation which exists where you may wish to have staged rollouts. The Redmond Company informed that developers are not required to install SP1 of Team Foundation Server and SP1 of the Visual Studio 2005 "client" at the same time. In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed were reported by customers through the MSDN Product Feedback Center and Microsoft Connect," revealed Microsoft. The issues addressed range in severity from places where the syntax coloring was incorrect to customer reported crashes in various scenarios. "Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customers and partner feedback, as well as internal testing.

The modifications are focused on enhancements in responsiveness, stability and performance. Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 introduces a wide variety of fixes and enhancements that were - in their largest part - issues reported by consumers via the MSDN Product Feedback Center. Not to worry, I will keep you up to date, but if you are running Vista you will simply have to exercise your patience. In accordance with the existent editions of Visual Studio, Microsoft is delivering the following service pack versions: Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1, Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server SP1, Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions SP1 and Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista Beta.Īt the time of this article, all the versions mentioned above have been made available for download with the sole exception of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista Beta, addressing developers that are using Vista. The Visual Studio developer tool was introduced almost 10 years ago and today Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1.
