Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta
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Released Monday... http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=3311[^]
Kevin
A beta service pack for what is essentially a beta product. Actually, that sort of makes sense. Marc
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Chris Maunder wrote:
A beta of a service pack.
So if you install a beta SP on a release-version, what do you get? A mixed-breed half-beta half-pure something I suppose. :-D
Regards, Nish
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cheers, Chris Maunder
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Released Monday... http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=3311[^]
Kevin
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Is there a list of fixes for this service pack anywhere, other than the very vague description on the link you provided? Mike
Isn't that the purpose of the Beta release? So that by the time they do a full release, their testers will have determined what's actually fixed?
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Released Monday... http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/content/content.aspx?ContentID=3311[^]
Kevin
There seem to be a lot of different kinds of "issues" at Microsoft, i.e. "Supportability issues", "Eligable functionality issues" etc. Interesting, our issue list is broken down by product then by how quickly it needs to be fixed, i.e. "Next maintenance release", "Optional" and "wish list" for future releases. We rate issues by how they will affect our customers regardless of what it takes to fix them, MS seems to rate them by how they will affect Microsoft. I guess that's the difference between a small nimble company and a big bloated one.
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A beta of a service pack. Isn't that almost some kind of tautology?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Windows service packs have had betas for years, ever since Win NT 4's later ones in fact. VS 2003 SP1 had a beta too.
Kevin
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A beta service pack for what is essentially a beta product. Actually, that sort of makes sense. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithVS 2003 SP1 had a beta too.
Kevin
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Is there a list of fixes for this service pack anywhere, other than the very vague description on the link you provided? Mike
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Windows service packs have had betas for years, ever since Win NT 4's later ones in fact. VS 2003 SP1 had a beta too.
Kevin
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Whatever it is I'd want it chained up so it couldn't scare the neighbours.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Whatever it is I'd want it chained up so it couldn't scare the neighbours.
That was what I was thinking. Some kind of vicious mutt :)
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A beta of a service pack. Isn't that almost some kind of tautology?
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Isn't that the purpose of the Beta release? So that by the time they do a full release, their testers will have determined what's actually fixed?
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Shog9 wrote:
So that by the time they do a full release, their testers will have determined what's actually fixed?
Nah, so that by the time they do a full release, we would have found out what they've actually fixed for them :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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There seem to be a lot of different kinds of "issues" at Microsoft, i.e. "Supportability issues", "Eligable functionality issues" etc. Interesting, our issue list is broken down by product then by how quickly it needs to be fixed, i.e. "Next maintenance release", "Optional" and "wish list" for future releases. We rate issues by how they will affect our customers regardless of what it takes to fix them, MS seems to rate them by how they will affect Microsoft. I guess that's the difference between a small nimble company and a big bloated one.
If anybody bothers to test the service pack, could you tell me if they manage to fix the problem I am having with the menu control, (I am having one of those high productivity moments MS promised me) My menu control seems to want to go vertical even though I have set it to horizontal, and no matter what I do I can't make it go Horizontal. This has indeed boosted my Productivity as I have had to spend an hour to try and get this too work. Who knows what I would've of done with that hour maybe, Ballmer forbid, spend time with my Kids or wife??;) -- modified at 5:18 Sunday 24th September, 2006
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=)) good one!
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VS 2003 SP1 had a beta too.
Kevin
Isn't VS 2003 still in beta?
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Isn't VS 2003 still in beta?
No VS 2003 SP1 has made it a final release! :)
Kevin
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