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What's changed from Beta 2 to RTM?

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 9:46 AM by Quan
Here's a complete doc on what changed between Beta 2 and the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005: http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/3/8/e38818ae-31e5-462b-b9ad-e6d3cd6ad7c1/Breaking Changes Beta2 to RTM.doc Read More...
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Adding SQL database to a project fails

Posted Friday, October 28, 2005 1:59 PM by Quan
After installing Visual Studio 2005, you may see the following error when trying to add a SQL database to your project: Local database file User does not have permission to perform this action. The problem occurs because the user is part of the Administrator's Read More...
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What's with .42?

Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:58 PM by Quan
In one of my previous blogs, I mentioned the final build number for Visual Studio 2005 was 8.0.50727.42. The way it worked in the past was our build numbers were 8.0.YMMDD.00. When we came close to shipping, we froze the first three digits and then only Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 Shipped!

Posted Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:54 PM by Quan
It's official! For those with MSDN subscriptions, you can now download Visual Studio 2005! For those without MSDN subscriptions, the Express Products will be available on November 7th for download and the box products will be available in the stores. Read More...
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Final RTM Build numbers

Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:13 PM by Quan
November 7th is still the street date for Visual Studio 2005. Our final build number is 8.0.50727.42 for Visual Studio and 2.0.50727.42 for the .Net Framework. If you have an older version on your machine (the RC bits), please make sure you run the uninstall Read More...
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Error 1904 when installing the 1.0 Framework

Posted Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:05 PM by Quan
A customer ran into the following error dialog when installing the 1.0 Framework: Error 1904 Module C:\Windows\System32\mscoree.dll failed to register. HRESULT -2146232576. Contact your support personal. The customer had the 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 Framework Read More...
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Can't move cursor in VS 2005 text editor

Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:52 AM by Quan
A customer ran into this issue where they can't move the cursor in the text editor and other things didn't work such as control-Z and import/export settings. The workaround is: Shutdown Visual Studio Click Start -> Run Type in "devenv.exe /resetuserdata" Read More...
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msvsmon fails during VS install

Posted Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:35 PM by Quan
I just spent a few days with a customer who had issues uninstalling Beta 2 and then installing the RC candidate. Here's a snippet from his MSI log: MSI (s) (44:28) [20:59:55:916]: Executing op: ServiceInstall(Name=msvsmon80,DisplayName=Visual Studio 2005 Read More...
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Package load failures with class designers when upgrading from VS 2005 Beta 2 to RC/RTM

Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:50 PM by Quan
Aaron wrote a great blog about this issue: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/08/27/457248.aspx If you're running into package load failures after uninstalling Beta 2 and then installing the RC, please follow the steps in Aaron's blog. Read More...
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EM64T Machines

Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:52 PM by Quan
If you have an EM64T machine and have installed Visual Studio 2005 on it, please let me know. We currrently have a third party vendor helping us with some test cases and the Express SKUs are failing to uninstall on the EM64T machine. We can't seem to Read More...
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