Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1 is Here | Tech Off

It's here it's here.

Microsoft has finally shipped Visual Studio .NET 2003 SP1.

You can get it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=69d2219f-ce82-46a5-8aec-072bd4bb955e&displaylang=en

Enjoy.

Ilya

Minh

Anyone has details about what's in this SP?

ilya

Minh wrote:

Anyone has details about what's in this SP?

Try this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918007/

Ilya

dotnetjunkie

Too late...

Most people don't care about VS2003 anymore... they should have put all their resources on VS2005 SP1.

cheong

dotnetjunkie wrote:

Too late...

Most people don't care about VS2003 anymore... they should have put all their resources on VS2005 SP1.

Not really.

You can't really upgrade an existing project to run on .NET v2.0 without the client's consent (not even if you're doing it for 'free'). So it's reasonable to predict that businesses would still need to deal with VS2003 for one or two more years.

brownsoft

Donetjunkie said

"Too late...

Most people don't care about VS2003 anymore... they should have put all their resources on VS2005 SP1."

Oh okay.
How about the people who still develop code for .NET 1.1 platform?? Not everyone has the money to upgrade to 2.0 just yet(Yes, I know you can get the express) but I am talking to the full version.
Also, shows you that .NET 1.1 is still viable to use if Microsoft will actually release SP1 this late in the developement game. I applaud Microsoft for this instead of saying "Sorry, we no longer care about that so please upgrade to the new platform, thanks."

qwert231

Agreed, we upgraded our main site to 2.0, but many of the support classes are still 1.1. If we do need to make a tweak, it's been easier to just do it in 1.1, since there is no major push to upgrade.

Also, we have a winforms app, and to get users to 2.0, boy, that would be scary. Our new installs ship with .Net 2.0, but all the code is 1.1. (That way those users will be ready for the upgrade.)

dotnetjunkie

Hey, I didn't say that .NET 1.1 apps aren't still important! We still run a lot of 1.1 applications, and so do our clients. I was only talking about the service pack. After all, the applications developed in VS2003 *do* run well (otherwise you wouldn't have them deployed...)
And of course you can still do tweaks in existing apps with VS2003, SP or no SP.

Apart from that, it's really no problem to make users install the .NET framework 2.0. I've never met a client that had any questions or reservations about installing / updating .NET, people just see it as a windows component.

brownsoft

dotnetjunkie,
Its okay. I was not trying to start anything just making a point about hwo many people still use .NET 1.1 over .NET 2.0. Yes, 2.0 makes the job easier but for some apps it requires recoding which is a pain.

dotnetjunkie

brownsoft wrote:

for some apps it requires recoding which is a pain.

I agree, it takes a lot of time.
However, if the application is still in active development and a lot of new features have to be added, I think it's worth going through that pain.

brownsoft

dotnetjunkie wrote:

brownsoft wrote:for some apps it requires recoding which is a pain.

I agree, it takes a lot of time.
However, if the application is still in active development and a lot of new features have to be added, I think it's worth going through that pain.

Very true. It helps alot if you or the company that you work for can afford the upgrade to the new Visual Studio.