Visual Studio 2005 SP1 released
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2005 SP1. This includes some 70 improvements like Core Duo support, performance improvements in TFS, integration of TFS with Excel 2007 etc.
VS2005 SP1 Release Notes say
Service pack installation takes longer than the original product installation:
Installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1 takes longer than installing the original release version because the SP1 installation is much like a product installation, but with additional installation tasks. Installation time depends on which product is installed and the computer’s configuration.
Installation requires significant disk space:
Disk space equal to that taken by the original product installation may be needed to install a service pack .
If you have more than one Visual Studio product installed, you will need disk space for each service pack installation. You can find an estimate of the required disk space on the download page for the service pack.
Here is what Fabrice says about the SP1 installation..
Update: You should make sure you have some time available for the installation. Here, it took more than one hour and a half with 99% of the CPU occupied all the time!
I was waiting for a Service Pack of VS2005 which would fix some of the common VC++ development issues like Updating intellisense forever, precompiled header problems etc. I wonder whether these are fixed in SP1.
