Charlie Calvert's Community Blog

Yes, you can uninstall the Visual Studio 2005 service pack one beta. At first, I couldn't see how to do it, but then I saw the little "Show Updates" check box at the top of the Add or Remove Programs dialog. I checked it, and then the option to uninstall the VS 2005 SP showed up in the list and I can choose to uninstall it if I so wish.

As for the fixes question, there are over 2000 fixes in the service pack. Not that we had 2000 bugs in the product, you understand, but just that we have lots of fixes. :)

Here is a partial list:

KB898904

Update to the Web Project Conversion Wizard in Visual Studio 2005

KB909350

FIX: You receive LNK2001 and LNK1120 error messages when you use the Vcbuild.exe command-line tool to build a Visual C++ solution

KB910275

FIX: The customized color code marker that is actually added may differ from the customized color code marker that you try to add in Visual Studio 2005

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

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KB912019

FIX: You may receive an error message when you rebuild a solution and try to view a Windows Form in Design view in Visual Studio 2005

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KB913377

FIX: IntelliSense may stop working, and Visual Studio may crash, when you try to open a large Managed C++ project in Visual Studio 2005

KB913432

FIX: The IDE stops responding when you build a project that generates lots of text in the Output window in Visual Studio 2005

KB913940

An attributed ATL-based COM server unexpectedly exits in Visual Studio 2005

KB913951

FIX: The browser may stop responding when you scroll through a Visual J# 2005 Web page that contains a J# Browser Control

KB913996

FIX: Error message when you use the debugger in Visual Studio 2005 to debug an MFC class library application: "Managed Debugging Assistant 'Loader Lock' has detected a problem in '<filename.exe>'"

KB915038

FIX: You may receive Visual Basic compiler error messages when you are developing a Visual Basic 2005 project in Visual Studio 2005

KB915110

FIX: Visual Studio 2005 may stop responding when you build a Web application project that is checked out of Visual SourceSafe

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KB915364

Update to support Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects

KB915418

FIX: An access violation may occur when you try to run a Visual C++ 2005 application that contains OMG CORBA IDL code

KB915423

FIX: Error message when you use certain code patterns that involve the IDisposable interface in the Visual Studio 2005 C++ compiler: "Fatal error C1001"

KB915781

FIX: You may receive an incorrect error message when you open a Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office document

KB916632

FIX: All the applications that use the C run-time library may not start after you install Visual Studio 2005 and then you uninstall Visual Studio 2005 without restarting the computer

KB916688

FIX: Error message when you try to use the Visual SourceSafe 2005 LAN booster service together with Visual Studio 2005 on a server that is running Windows 2000: "Unable to use SourceSafe LAN service"

KB916769

FIX: The Visual Studio 2005 IDE stops responding when you work with a large Visual C++ .NET solution in Visual Studio 2005

KB916812

FIX: The report does not print the first time that you click Print when you try to print the report from the Report Viewer control 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

KB917141

FIX: The position of the Properties window may not be saved after you exit Visual Studio 2005 on a dual-monitor system

KB917147

FIX: The Cole Property Page object of a Visual C++ application may be deleted when the Bound Property Changed function is invoked, and Visual Studio 2005 may unexpectedly close (crash)

KB917291

FIX: Custom build steps may not run when you add the custom build steps to a Visual C++ 2005 Win32 static library project in Visual Studio 2005

KB917327

FIX: Japanese, Chinese, or Korean characters in resource files may be overwritten by question marks after you convert a Visual C 6.0-based project to Visual Studio 2005

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KB917452

FIX: You may experience performance issues when you use solutions that contain large Visual Basic projects in Visual Studio 2005

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KB918373

FIX: The Atls.pdb file and the Atlsd.pdb file contain incomplete debugging information when you debug an ATL-based C++ application in Visual Studio 2005

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KB918553

FIX: A floating-point exception may occur when an inline function in a C++ application returns an uninitialized floating-point variable 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

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KB919232

FIX: MS Project Work Item Publish Error

KB919280

How to rebuild the C++ STL library for Visual Studio 2005

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KB919904

FIX: You may receive an error message when you try to build a Web project that references a .NET Compact Framework 2.0 assembly in Visual Basic 2005

KB920145

FIX: You may receive an error message when you consume an assembly that has an obfuscated generic type in Visual Studio 2005

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KB920770

FIX: You may receive a "Fatal error C1902" error message and a solution build may fail when you try to use the AT command or a scheduled task to automate a build of a C or C++ project in Visual Studio 2005

KB920805

FIX: You may experience slow performance when you work with a Visual Basic solution that contains many projects in Visual Studio 2005

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KB923147

FIX: Visual Studio 2005 exits unexpectedly when you try to edit an existing Data Table object or add a new Data Table object to the dataset that you are editing

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Thanks Peter and Valkyrie for writing. Peter, based on what you've said here I've added some text to Community Convergence X to again call attention to Scott's post on Web Application fixes. Valkyrie, I'll try to get your comments to the folks on the team who made that fix.