Visual Studio shipped the yesterday. It is available for immediate download in all 10 languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and both traditional and simplified Chinese). You can.This SP release is a pretty major service pack, and incorporates a lot of bug-fixes and feedback from customers. 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).

• How To Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

It also contains a number of design-time performance optimizations and fixes across the product.Some Suggestions on Installing the Service PackThe 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. 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).A few suggestions/comments on the setup process:1) 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.

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. 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 SP1.2) SP1 will run the upgrade patching process on each copy of Visual Studio 2005 it finds on your system. 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). 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.3) SP1 will patch/update all files/features in VS 2005 that you have installed. Sometimes I just click 'install everything' when I setup VS 2005, in which case I get a lot of features that I often don't use (for example: some of the C header/lib sources for ATL, MFC, etc).

What I've seen on my personal system is that when I only have the features I use installed, the SP1 upgrade process takes about 15 minutes end to end. But with everything it can take closer to 45-50 minutes. You might want to consider unchecking certain features of VS if you aren't using them and want to both save some disk space as well as speed up the SP1 install process.One last built performance suggestionSP1 does include a number of build performance improvements (for both VB and C#). For suggestions on how to optimize Web Site and Web Project build performance with VS 2005, I also highly recommend you. This will help you optimize your build times significantly for both RTM and SP1 systems.Hope this helps,ScottP.S. Some people have noticed that my pictures and sample downloads on my site are missing at the moment. Unfortunately the Puget Sound region was hit by a really bad storm last night, and all electrical power was knocked out in the area shortly before 1am (exactly 3 minutes after I finished my - I hit submit just in time ).

Both my house and the Microsoft campus are without power at the moment, which means the server hosting my pictures/downloads is not running. They are hoping to get us power again in the next few days, at which time my server will (fingers crossed) come back up. Until then I'm hanging out in a very crowded Starbucks for heat/light and will also be sporadic on email. Sorry in advance for any delays.

182 Comments.Thanks for the update Scott!-.Does anyone know whether the final VS 2005 SP1 can be installed over the beta, or whether that's even necessary?Rich A-.Is the Web Deployment Project included in SP1 as well?-.Hi Rich,You'll want to uninstall the SP1 Beta before you install the SP1 final release.Hope this helps,ScottScottGu-.Hi Kevin,The Web Deployment Project isn't built-in with SP1 - instead it is still a separate download. It works fine with SP1 though.Hope this helps,ScottScottGu-.Great Scott! Glad it's here. Does the Web Application Project support Profiles now? I never could get that hack tool to fully work.stacy-.Web Deployment Project isn't built-inwith SP1Too bad.

How To Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Will it be built into the IDE in Orcas?-.Wow. Nice size for the SP:) 400+ MBI feel for you powerwise. We had 100kph+ winds blow around here last night too (Vancouver BC). 40 foot fir next to my house pleasantly decided to fall the OTHER way!-.When will be the Vista version available?-.Hm, Scott, I'm only seeing the service pack for Team Edition on the downloads page, this isn't what I should install if I'm using Professional Edition, is it?-.Does Visual Studio Express edition have the concept of 'slipstreaming'?

Ie, is there one download for VS2k5 Express that already has the SP1 stuff integrated with it?how/where?:-)Thanks!JoeJoe-.Is anyone else having trouble installing this? I can't get past the extracting process. Ugh.Don M-.I've downloaded the 400+MB patch, run it, and get:'The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it.' WTF?Dandy-.i'm running Visual Studio Team Edition with the beta of SP1 on Vista. I wanted to uninstall the beta of SP1 but it doesn't show up in Add/Remove programs and when i try to unstill the full release of SP1, it claims i'm not running the correct version of the product.any ideas?-.Wow this is a good news.Hope the server goes up in quick time-.Is it worth installing VS 2005 SP1 if you're only using VS for the Reporting Services report designer?JasonH-.Hi Scott,I couldn't get it the service pack to install on windows vista. Its says it cannot find any instance of visual studio installed.Intresting.Zeeshan-.Hi Scott,When trying to uninstall Webapp projects, I'm getting an error 'Error opening installation log file.

Verify that the specified log file location exists and is writable'. I'm running Vista RTM with UAC disabled and I am the admin. I reinstalled the Web Application Projects but then it fails again when I try to uninstall. Is there a way to manually uninstall Web Application Projects?Eric-.Hi ScottI am Vista and did not install the Beta of VS05 SP1 but get this message'The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct upgrade patch'Any advice?ThanksMike Lockyer-.Don't know if this happened for anyone else, but after I install 'VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU.exe', it then asks if I want to install it again.

I did it again to see what it would do, and it seemed to reinstall it. It asked me again after it was done, but I clicked 'Cancel' and it ended. It seems to have installed it though.Michael Stuart-.Hi Jeffrey,There is one patch for Team Edition, Standard, and Professional - you can use that with the Professional edition.Hope this helps,ScottScottGu-.Hi Joe,Slipstreaming builds will be available next year - which will integrate the patches into new setups for clean installs. The plan will be to update the Express downloads for new users to get SP1 enabled builds without having to install the patch separately.Hope this helps,ScottScottGu-.Hi Cyril,There is a Vista VS 2005 Beta Patch that you will be able to install from here: It addresses the known issues VS 2005 has with Vista.We are going to give people a month or so to report any new issues, and then release this as an RTM patch as well.Hope this helps,ScottScottGu-.Hi Dandy,Can you double check that you have a lot of available disk space?

I'm wondering if the problem was caused by you running out of disk space? If this isn't the cause, then please send me an email with the details and I'll be happy to connect you up with someone on the VS team who can help investigate further.Thanks,ScottScottGu-.Hi Mike/Zeeshan,Can you check whether you've installed the SP1 Beta version of the patch? If so, can you make sure you've uninstalled that first?Thanks,ScottScottGu-.Hi Eric,That is weird - I'm not sure why it didn't uninstall. Can you send me email (scottgu@microsoft.com) and I cna loop you in with someone who can provide a script to remove it automatically.Hope this helps,ScottScottGu-.Hello Scott,could you explain why the installer takes such a long time and uses 100% CPU?I am just curious, because I have never seen any installer behave this way (it's been 'gathering requirements' at 100% CPU for 15 minutes now).Also, even though you warned it might take a long time, you didn't mention it would take 100% CPU. You can imagine people are worried when they see this.Thanks in advance for your explanation!-MikeMike-.Hi Michael (and Mike/Zeeshan),I just blogged about how to uninstall the SP1 Beta when running on Windows Vista.

KB Articles:. License TermsPLEASE NOTE: Microsoft Corporation (or based on where you live, one of its affiliates) licenses this supplement to you. You may use it with each validly licensed copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 software (the “software”). You may not use the supplement if you do not have a license for the software. The license terms for the software apply to your use of this supplement. Microsoft provides support services for the supplement as described at www.support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx.This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Suite.

Fixes in this Service Pack include stability, performance and security enhancements made in many areas of the product. A comprehensive list of fixes requested by customers since the release of Visual Studio® 2005 and included in this Service Pack can be found by following the appropriate link under Additional Information on this page. Installation Time:. Due to the setup requirements of large service packs such as Visual Studio® 2005 SP1, installation will take a significant amount of time.

How much time depends upon your computer’s capabilities and the number of Visual Studio® 2005 products being updated. When installing on Windows Vista™ with User Account Control (UAC) active, there can be a substantial delay before the initial setup dialog is displayed. During this time, a UAC function is verifying digital signatures within the installation package. This service pack carries a large number of files causing the process to take up to one hour in some cases. Installation Requirements:. A copy of one of the supported Visual Studio® 2005 products must be installed on the target computer. Microsoft® Windows® Installer 3.1 or later installed on the target computer.

192MB of RAM required.