Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 ( SP1 ) Released

david — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:21:58 GMT

BEFORE RUNNING THE SP 1 install you need to run the Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Cleanup Utility.

The HFCU Utility can be found here:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/RemoveKB944899

The service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en

There are a lot of changes:

Look at all the features added to VS2008:

•SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) support is added to Visual Studio 2008.

•The following Visual Basic PowerPack controls have been added:

•Line

•Shape

•Data Repeater

•In Visual Basic, the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service renaming process is improved.

•Document level features are included for application level add-ins in Visual Studio Tools for Office.

•Design-time support has been added in the ClickOnce application for file name extensions and Start menu customization.

•You can send mail from work items in Team Foundation Server.

•Version control usability improvements and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) converter improvements have been made in Team Foundation Server.

•Improved Team System Web access integration with notifications has been added in Team Foundation Server.

•In Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers, support has improved for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 in the Visual Studio Performance Tools (Profiler).

•In Visual Studio Team Edition for Developers, 64-bit mixed mode (native/managed) instrumentation support has been added in the Profiler.

•In Visual C++, the Libraries support for Technical Report 1 (TR1) is added.

•In Visual C++, the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) is improved to support the appearance and behavior of Microsoft Office.

•In Visual Web Developer, SQL Server 2008 support for Web projects is added.

•In Visual Web Developer, JavaScript formatting support is added.

•In Visual Web Developer, the WCF Service renaming process is improved.

•Debugging changes improve support for inspecting the results of in-memory Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) queries.

•A new Visual C# feature is added to provide a richer set of error information about code.

•Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) partners are enabled to install one copy of files for a package that can be used by multiple isolated applications.

•In Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Designer, snaplines are now implemented for margins. This behavior enables the designer to control a fixed distance from other controls, container edges, or gridlines.

•Visual Studio Tools for Office System (VSTO) is improved to support add-in error logging.

•XSD Schema Explorer is improved.

•The Step Into Specific debugging feature and the Step Filtering debugging feature for managed properties and managed operators are changed.

•The debugger now can cancel symbol and source downloading from Microsoft Public Symbol Servers.

•Streamlined support for Reference Source is added to the debugger.

•The ADO.NET Entity Designer is added to ease data access.

•You can now add “Local Database Cache” to device projects.

•ASP.NET Dynamic Data templates and toolbox controls are added.

•IIS 7.0 Managed Module and Handler templates are added.

•Support for starting the WCF Test client debug of a WCF Service file (.svc) by pressing F5 is added.

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 ( SP1 ) Released