The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 update for Windows Vista
has been available for download as of March 6, 2007. If you
are a developer, then you will be interested to know that Microsoft
is applauding the Visual Studio 2005 refresh as a way to take
full advantage of the power delivered by Windows Vista in creating
secure, reliable and connected applications. With this update for
Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft is further advancing the service pack 1
that was made available in December, 2006.
“With this update to Visual Studio, our goal was to ensure developers
have the best possible experience on Windows Vista, and that the
features developers are using in Visual Studio work as expected. We
fixed a number of significant issues around debugging and profiling,
and around creating ASP.NET applications for IIS on the developer
machine. We also wanted to improve the feedback that Visual Studio
gives to developers when an error occurs on Windows Vista,” revealed S.
“Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at
Microsoft.
The functionality of Visual Studio was impacted by the evolution of
Windows Vista. In this regard, several areas that suffered enhancements
in Vista such as User Account Control, the networking stack, and the
new graphics model, also affected Visual Studio. With the update to
Visual Studio SP1, Microsoft has resolved these issues.
And not a moment too early, as Vista has hit the shelves since January
30, 2007, and Microsoft has experienced a consistent amount of interest
from developers over Visual Studio. “We have seen strong adoption of
Visual Studio 2005 across all the product families. For example, the
Express editions of Visual Studio, which were new with Visual Studio
2005, have had over 10 million downloads. We have also had more than
620,000 developers participate in the Windows Vista and Office 2007
experience program, which was designed to ensure we received feedback
from our developer community as we built the next generation of our
Office and Windows platform,” Somasegar added.
Although Visual Studio 2005 has been compatible with Windows Vista
since the first service pack, the update provided a resolve for some
functionality issues associated with the VS and Vista integration.
However, while Microsoft has with this refresh ensured that Visual
Studio 2005 works seamlessly with Vista, a number of third-party
development tools are still locked out of the operating system.
