At last, the long awaited Service Pack 1 is out for Visual Studio 2005. BUT: It's BETA !! After trying out several new technologies and "packages" from Microsoft (ClickOnce, Composite Application Blocks and Smart Client Software Factory, Visual Studio 2005 and 2003, themselves, some time ago (which are all not beta)), every final V1 product being released by Microsoft recently rather felt like a Beta product, and the service pack made it then feel like a final version at last.
But the fact that the service pack itself is called BETA version seems like a desperate measure to release the long-awaited piece of code faster than it should be. Of course everyone has been waiting for that service pack and that's why probably most developers including me are installing it. I just hope that the beta version of this service pack rather feels like RTM Version or a release candidate. I would otherwise expect a software company to not at all release BETA Service Packs and rather get their job done right.
I'll see.. The beta SP1 is currently installing, and will either even more "increase my productivity" and remove really annoying and obvious bugs, or will cost me a day of non-productivity. Also, I hope this service pack doesn't break my ClickOnce Deployment configuration for my CAB application i am currently working on.
UPDATE:
The Service Pack is here, a surprisingly short time after the Beta Release. Have quite some disk space ready (particularly on your Windows partition) and get accustomed to watching Visual Studio 2005 being updated for 30-45 minutes, but it's worth it ! You're in for quite a few performance-improvements, bug fixes and usuability improvements (among others "Find throughout the whole Solution !")
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