Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 focuses on addressing product issues reported during the first few months the product is in the market. The types of fixes you can expect to find in this service pack follow the same general guidelines we have used previously, with the notable addition of feedback received from customers via the Product Feedback Center, which was introduced first in the Visual Studio 2005 product cycle. Thus, the types of fixes you can expect to find in this service pack are:

• The Hotfixes and General Distribution Release Updates (GDRs) released between RTM and the end of the Service Pack customer beta period.
• Any fixes addressing security issues categorized as MSRC "Critical", "Important" or "Moderate".
• Fixes for product reliability and stability issues, including those reported by customers via the Product Feedback Center, and the crashes most frequently reported via Watson.
• Fixes for common "eligible" functional issues reported by customers via the Product Feedback Center. "Eligible" functional issues are those that do not require breaking changes, architectural changes, or Design Change Request (DCR) level feature work, and that do not create unacceptable product quality risk and/or cost of implementation.
• Fixes for the top customer and supportability issues as reported by PSS.

The goal of all of our Service Packs is to increase the overall quality of the existing product features while maintaining a high level of compatibility. You can find the complete list of issues addressed in Visual Studio Service Pack 1 here: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=4324.