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We've been publishing hotfixes for general download for a year or so now. Although it has been reasonably popular, it never took off (in terms of publishing or downloads) the way I had hoped. Part of the problem, I believe, is that the advertising/download solution we had was not very conducive to finding what you want. We hope that problem has now been fixed.
Developer Division hotfixes are now being published on the new MSDN Code Gallery site. It gives us the ability to tag hot fixes with key words and for you to refine your search for what you want. I'm hoping it will really boost the usefulness of the service. I am also going to work on increasing the volume and frequency of publishing hotfixes.
The home page of the site looks like:
If you then click on the "Hotfix" link in the dark grey area to the middle right, you will see:
Which is a list of all available hotfixes, including links to the Knowledge Base (KB) articles that describe them. Clicking on "Tags" in the filter area just above the results allows you to further refine the list. For example, clicking on "tfs", yields:
Which lists all of the Team Foundation Server hotfixes that are available.
We are working now on getting all of the TFS 2008 hotfixes posted and I hope they will be available within the next 2 or 3 weeks.
Happy hunting,
Brian
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El feed general de los blogs de MSDN me avisa de una nota de Brian Harry , uno de los principales responsables
Any chance that these just show up as optional updates in Windows Update? I am sure that would be the number one thing you could do to make them discoverable by users.
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Nice. Do you know if I could subscribe to this list with RSS?
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That certainly seems like a reasonable thing to ask for. I've sent mail to the team running this site and asked them about it. They should respond on this post.
およそ 1 年前に、一般ダウンロード用修正プログラムの公開を開始しました。これは、ある程度は好評でしたが、(公開やダウンロードに関して) 思ったほどの成果は上がりませんでした。この問題の一部は、私たちのアドバタイズ/ダウンロード
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2281675/how-to-correctly-identify-vs2008-version-level
It's very difficult to identify the version level of vs2008.
What is even more unclear (at least to me)
is that at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=Hotfix
there are currently (2010-2-17) 169 hotfixes.
If version 9.0.30279.1 SP identifies SP1 and
the .n part changes when a hotfix is applied,
other than the fact that one might see something
like version 9.0.30279.1234 after applying one
or more hotfixes, how can a person know whether
she/he has applied one or more of the 169 hotfixes?
Regards,
Gerry (Lowry)
Hi Gerry, most hotfixes appear in the add/remove programs component under the control panel. One thing to note is that while KB Numbers generally imply ordering this is not allways the case. KB Numbers are assigned when a hotfix is requested while ordering is determined when the hotfix is completed.
I hope this helps
--Aaron