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I’m happy to announce that as of 10:00 AM PST the final version of the Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is available for download! MSDN subscribers can download the bits immediately with general availability on Thursday, March 10.
As described with the SP1 Beta post, in this release we have addressed some of the most requested features from customers of Visual Studio 2010 like better help support, IntelliTrace support for 64bit and SharePoint, and included Silverlight 4 Tools in the box. We also added unit testing support on .NET 3.5 and a new performance wizard for Silverlight, among other changes.
We concentrated heavily on fixing issues you reported, including the top voted issues from Connect. The full list of changes can be found in the Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server knowledge base articles. You can also find information about SP1 compatibility, SP1 Readme, and general information about SP1 in the Visual Studio Dev Center.
Today we also announced the immediate availability of two new feature packs for MSDN Subscribers:
Since the launch of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, we have continued our momentum of focusing on improving the developer experience. Thanks to all of you who have provided feedback along the way.
I hope you enjoy these releases!
Jason
tsk tsk, You missed to MONDAY, anyway great, now we can get back to coding and you can get back to http://www.fixwpf.org/
i think you need to look into the wider adoption senario of the tech you churn out for dev to use, wpf xaml great work , but suddenly some in ms had a great idea and came out with silverlight , well how many actual real lob value added implementation ? any stats? look at flash now ? you guy need to have some internal strategy that aligns with your OS release for the .net framework and people should not need to download much runtimes to run applications.also what about the wpf / xbap thing ? is it dead ? is that lost in some light?
Does SP1 update the .NET Framework? In other words, is there a correlating update to the .NET Framework at the same time as VS SP1 that we'll need to deploy to servers and clients?
@confonam1 - Monday was never a target, turns out Tuesday's are easier with everyone in office on a Monday to get all of the downloads prepared :) The following post talks through quite a bit of WPF / Silverlight material: 10rem.net/.../the-present-and-future-of-wpf. In addition VS2010 SP1 contains some nice designer peformance wins that benefit both WPF and Silverlight.
@Sambo - There is an update to .NET which VS2010 relies on. It is not a full service pack, but rather a set of bug fixes. I will post a pointer to details.
I read on Twitter that this one includes RIA Services SP1 as well. Any (breaking) changes here?
Jason,
Does SP1 enable true 64bit debugging for web apps or just WOW64 which is limited to 2GB of RAM?
I asked over on Somasegar's WebLog but didn't hear back so I'm thinking this may be the place to ask. This learn.iis.net/.../iis-75-express-readme MS page implies that IIS Express won't be capable of true 64bit operation.
Currently, our options are to manually configure full IIS on local host or to use a 64bit build of CassiniDev ( cassinidev.codeplex.com ). At our company, we like the drop in replacement Cassini because it "just works" and projects don't require any special settings to get true 64bit debugging with Visual Studio. We always found it odd that we had to go create this build rather than it being built into VS 2010 and were hoping to see something like this become part of the SP1 release.
IIS Express seems to be a step in the right direction because it is more like production IIS than Cassini. However, lack of 64bit support is a deal breaker for our debugging profile, and we are concerned that upgrading to VS 2010 - SP1 will break our 64 bit Cassini projects and require a manual fix for each project.
You may also reach me directly via our contact info at http://maplarge.com for more details.
Thanks for your hard work!
Lynwood
I see the following download available amongst the SP1 downloads - what is it and where can I get more details? There is absolutely nothing on the web for the KB (at the time of writing), except for a Russian site (and it doesn't look kosher :-)
- KB2468871 (mu_.net_framework_4_kb2468871_x86_x64_ia64_651713.exe)
Does SP1 include WP7 Tools or can be compatible ?
I saw that blog post long back.But you should read the comments like..
Even, MS employee admitted it himself (see comment in here: connect.microsoft.com/.../vs2010-ide-becomes-gradually-slower-while-opening-a-large-number-of-files:)
"Thanks for taking the time to report the issue. What you're seeing is unfortunately a side effect of Visual Studio moving to WPF. In order to display the new features each window takes a bit more memory so when you're opening a large number of files it will slow down the system."
Does SP1 include Async, if not will SP1 break the Async CTP?
Thanks
Great new :)
But like when VS2010 was released, Windows SDK users must slow down... It should have a big Warning before downloading it.
blogs.msdn.com/.../windows-sdk-v7-1-with-visual-studio-2010-service-pack-1-potential-issue-with-x64-ia64-visual-c-compilers.aspx
I will follow your both blogs, waiting for a fix.
Ooohh Aaahhh. A shiny new service pack.
I reloaded my computer last week, so it's clean. I use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (yeah, the one that costs around $12,000.00). I attempted to install SP1, and it failed! It even took about 15 minutes to roll back SQL Server R2 Management Objects (x64) and needed my original VS2010 installation DVD to finish. I know I can only speak for myself, but I'm beginning to wonder if Microsoft is still capable of writing software that works!
I see no instructions for those who have installed SP1 Beta. Please add to the Readme.
@Scott - the current async ctp is known to be incompatible as per this list:
blogs.msdn.com/.../compatibility-and-visual-studio-2010-service-pack-1.aspx
There's an 'Async CTP Refresh' being prepared as per the 'Async CTP issues with VS2010 SP1' announcement here:
social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../threads
@JasonZ - my apologies if I've just missed it, but for a machine that has both TFS and VS2010 on it (I'd imagine this is fairly common, as many of us do this for getting certain types of projects to build on our TFS Build machines), what's the recommended (required?) order of the 2 SP1's to install?
@James Manning: regarding the installation procedures TFS, please refer to Brian's blog on the topic: blogs.msdn.com/.../installing-all-the-new-stuff.aspx. The short answer is that the order does not matter but it's critical that you install both the VS and TFS patches if both are present on the same machine.