Microsoft recently announced the availability of Visual Studio Service Pack 1 beta. SP1 fixes a number of issues that were reported through the MSDN product feedback center and our own internal testing. This includes any fixes, such as general distribution releases (GDRs) that have been put out for the product. The service pack also fixes the top 50% of bugs that had been reported to cause crashes. Sample things that we fixed include:
KB Article
Fix Description
KB898904
"An update to the Web Project Conversion Wizard in Visual Studio 2005 is available"
KB910832
"FIX: The IDE stops responding when you work with nested generic types in C# in Visual Studio 2005"
KB911281
"FIX: A native application takes a long time to start when you try to debug the application by using Visual Studio 2005"
KB915038
"FIX: You may receive Visual Basic compiler error messages when you are developing a Visual Basic 2005 project in Visual Studio 2005"
KB916769
"FIX: The Visual Studio 2005 IDE stops responding when you work with a large Visual C++ .NET solution in Visual Studio 2005"
KB917036
"FIX: The Visual Studio 2005 IDE may corrupt the deployment files for a Web Setup Project and for a Setup Project"
KB917452
"FIX: You may experience performance issues when you use solutions that contain large Visual Basic projects in Visual Studio 2005"
KB918559
"FIX: You may experience slow performance and increased memory usage when you start the debugger for a Visual C++ project in Visual Studio 2005"