#MS VISUAL STUDIO 2005 INSTALL#
#MS VISUAL STUDIO 2005 UPDATE#

#MS VISUAL STUDIO 2005 INSTALL#

If you aren't using all of these versions on your system, you might want to uninstall some of them - both to save yourself some disk space as well as to speed up the SP1 install process.ģ) SP1 will patch/update all files/features in VS 2005 that you have installed. So if you have VS 2005 Professional, Visual Web Developer Express, and Visual Basic Express on your system, it will run the patching process 3 times (since each of these installs have separate copies of some files). Your existing web application project files will continue to work just fine - so you won't need to-do anything to update them to work with SP1.Ģ) SP1 will run the upgrade patching process on each copy of Visual Studio 2005 it finds on your system. You'll no longer need this as support for it is built-in to SP1, and the SP1 installer will block and make you uninstall it if you have it installed. So you should plan ahead and not expect it to be a few second operation (note: it is a good task to kick off before lunch or in the evening).Ī few suggestions/comments on the setup process:ġ) Before starting the SP1 upgrade make sure you first uninstall the standalone VS 2005 Web Application Project download if you've installed that on your system.

#MS VISUAL STUDIO 2005 UPDATE#

The service pack itself is a fairly large download (431Mb), and can take 30-90 minutes to update your Visual Studio 2005 installation depending on which versions of VS you have installed, and what features are enabled.

Some Suggestions on Installing the Service Pack It also contains a number of design-time performance optimizations and fixes across the product. Included built-in with the service pack is support for VS 2005 Web Application Projects (which we also made available as a separate download back in May). This SP release is a pretty major service pack, and incorporates a lot of bug-fixes and feedback from customers. It is available for immediate download in all 10 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and both traditional and simplified Chinese). Visual Studio shipped the final release of VS 2005 SP1 yesterday.

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