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I'm happy to announce that the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! MSDN subscribers may download the beta immediately with general availability on Thursday. Service Pack 1 Beta comes with a “go live” license which means you can start using the product for production related work (see the license agreement with the product for more details).
Since the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 earlier this year and our subsequent Feature Packs, we have been concentrating on your feedback and worked hard on the issues you reported through Connect and our survey. I just recently blogged about the results from our recent survey and called out some of the latest improvements the team has delivered.
Service Pack 1 (SP1) continues that momentum of focusing on improving the developer experience by addressing some of the most requested features like better help support, IntelliTrace support for 64bit and SharePoint, and including Silverlight 4 Tools in the box. Some of the additional highlights are:
As an engineering team, the goal for this Service Pack was to work hard on releasing a high quality beta with a focus on only fixing the top-set of important issues we heard about from our customers. Please download the beta and send us your feedback through our Visual Studio Connect site and/or submit your feedback via our Service Pack 1 Beta Survey.
Enjoy!
UPDATE
If you have “ASP.NET MVC 3 RC” installed, please be aware that installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta will break Razor IntelliSense. There will be a new “ASP.NET MVC 3 RC2” installer released next Monday that you can upgrade to in-place. If you’ve already installed Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta, don’t uninstall the Beta Service Pack, just wait until Monday and upgrade your MVC installation.If you have “Visual Studio Async CTP” installed, please be aware that installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta will break Visual Studio Async CTP. We are looking at options for an updated release that will make the Visual Studio Async CTP compatible with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. In the meanwhile if you need to work with the CTP you should stick with VS2010 RTM.
Is it faster than before? Because VS 2010 is slow as hell!
VS 2010 is smooth and quick - great work! Way to go on the help viewer; the HTML one was meh, this is better.
If I have a complaint I am a Troll! That is good logic! I am a professional .NET developer and I am really upset with VS 2010. It crashes more often than VS 2008. It is slow as hell. It even crashes when debugging. VS 2010 is built with WPF which is causing all these problems.
@John Doe - I'm definitely interested in hearing all feedback. Can you contact me through this blog with your specific issues? We'll take a look. thanks, Jason
I am experiencing the same problems as John Doe. The strange thing is, sometimes it's really quick, but mostly it's very slow (45 secs for a single cpp change!) - when it's compiling it doesn't use much CPU at all, so that's not the problem and there is plenty of RAM available (4 gig in total). If I can figure out what is causing it I'll report to connect, but currently I can't see a pattern or reason behind it.
Hi Jason,
Great to hear SP! is finally being realeased into the wild.
Just wanting to confirm that it does include the fix for the follwing bug I submitted
connect.microsoft.com/.../report-viewer-2010-report-at-zoom-100-is-huge-was-fine-in-2005-2008
Cheers
Duncan
What about IIS Express Integration?
After ages here (hour or so), it's failed, asking for an x64 prerequisites file at a bogus-looking location ("1"). It's now rolling back because I don't actually have that file (it was a .EXE install which did the main download itself, not a DVD download)
Are you set-up to get the automatic feedback from this installation failure?
Is there no source for a detailed list of changes/fixes?
Can you provide a link to the list of bug fixes that are fix in the SP? I don't see the KB article or anything on Connect? I am sure hoping the list is very long. Bug fixes are much better than enhancements.
Is there any word about compatibility with the C# 5 Async CTP? Do we need to uninstall it first? Will there be an updated version that works with the beta or will we need to wait until the SP RTM before the next release.
If I install and build with the new SP1 beta but i DON'T deploy it to my client machines, will the app still run on the client?
I don't want to be installing a beta framework on their machines and then install an RTM one later. I want to fixes as a developer but don't to do more work in deployment.
Is there a KB detailing all changes?
I agree with John Doe vs2010 is slow and buggy (ex undo feature is corrupted)
moving to WPF was one of the worst mistakes ever made.
vs2008 is super fast by comparison.
sigh, C# is slow, WPF is slow, silverlight is slow, can microsoft do anything right ? that is not slow ?
please undo that WPF switch, please !!!
i just knew WPF was a bad move for vs2010 but did the devs listen? nooo! So here it comes "I told you so".
Ok now you have made your mistake and got burned hand, can you listen me now and remove WPF from vs2010.
everything that can be done in wpf can be done in native code, just fine, you just have to use your brains and stop trying to be so lazy all the time!
Does this fix the debugging problems? In general I've found 2010 to be stable, quick and a great overall development experience...with the exception of the debugger which just seems to stubbornly refuse to honor breakpoints and will run off home to mama while stepping through code. A fix to this would certainly enhance my overall development satisfaction and cause me to become outrageously productive and the envy of all non VS2010 users.
Steve