Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in .Net, Programming | Posted on 25-02-2006
A new website launched on MSDN recently for Visual Studio called Servicing. The site outlines a service pack for VS2003 and VS2005 that will come out in Q3 of 2006. Here is what the service pack for VS2005 is suppose to include (taken directly from site):
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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 will focus on addressing product issues
reported during the first few months the product is in the market. The types of
fixes you can expect to find in this service pack follow the same general
guidelines we have used previously, with the notable addition of feedback
received from customers via the Product Feedback Center, which was introduced
first in the Visual Studio 2005 product cycle. Thus, the types of fixes you can
expect to find in this service pack are:
- The Hotfixes and General Distribution Release Updates (GDRs) released
between RTM and the end of the Service Pack customer beta period.
- Any fixes addressing security issues categorized as MSRC
“Critical”, “Important” or “Moderate”.
- Fixes for product reliability and stability issues, including those reported
by customers via the Product Feedback Center, and the crashes most frequently
reported via Watson.
- Fixes for common “eligible” functional issues reported by customers via the
Product Feedback Center. “Eligible” functional issues are those that do not
require breaking changes, architectural changes, or Design Change Request (DCR)
level feature work, and that do not create unacceptable product quality risk
and/or cost of implementation.
- Fixes for the top customer and supportability issues as reported by
PSS.
The goal of all of our Service Packs is to increase the overall quality of
the existing product features while maintaining a high level of
compatibility.
This service pack is currently targeted for final release in Q3 of 2006. A
more detailed schedule of external interim milestones (e.g. customer beta
period) will be posted when it has been finalized.
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