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Brian

I just want to said that I'm admired how Microsoft is evolving these days =)

A year ago I blamed MS here about the Fixes Download, the String.IsNullOrEmpty error, etc, but now I see a completely diferent MS, a VS that is stable from the start up and really perfomant =) (I also thanks Rico for that :P)

I cant belive how people can get so angry for the downloads =) In fact we always want that you release soon, like you did now =) so I dont know why they said so many things for slow downloads they only need to wait 4 days and the servers can come back to normal, I donwloaded the Express BUndle (800 mb) in no time the day of release =)

So again thanks for make available the .NET 2.0 SP1 the 3.0 SP1 we really apreciate that too !!!

Go forward MS you are learning for past error and thats important !!

Best of luck, keep in the good work Brian I'm sure that a lot of these changes was forced by you

Marcos Meli

Open Source Developer

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Discoverability could still be a little better but that's mainly the search engine's problem.

We have worked around a problem in VS2005 that is also reported here:

http://www.tc.cornell.edu/SoftwarePages/Migrating+to+Visual+Studio+2005+from+Visual+Studio+.NET+2003.htm  "Build crashes during link phase."

This is a long-standing problem but I can't find a hotfix for it.  That's either a discoverability problem with the hotfix or something badly broken in product support.

Cornell's root cause analysis and workaround are a little weak.  What happens is that if you have two projects waiting to link against the output of a third on a 2P machine (e.g. in an incremental build with only a library function changed) the simultaneous initiation of two link steps causes a crash.  We've sent in the crash dump at least once.  We've seen this primarily on Win2003 x86 machines but we've seen it in other situations too.

The workaround is to introduce an artificial dependecy chain among the link steps to force them to execute serially.  Disabling all parallism is way overkill.

I haven't tried reproducing it in Orcas yet.

Thanks.  You guys running these blogs is changing the world.  Keep it up!