{"id":4983,"date":"2008-05-12T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2008\/05\/12\/visual-studio-2008-service-pack-beta-now-available\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:54:06","slug":"visual-studio-2008-service-pack-beta-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/visual-studio-2008-service-pack-beta-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Beta now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">We are very excited to announce that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 <b>Beta<\/b> is now <\/font><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/products\/cc533447.aspx\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"3\">available<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"> for download. We encourage you to go ahead and try out this release. Please remember that this is a beta so some caution is advised. The goal of this beta is to gather feedback from the community. Please use the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"3\">connect<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"> site to report any issues or improvements. <\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">The <\/font><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vcblog\/archive\/2008\/04\/07\/visual-c-2008-feature-pack-released.aspx\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">&nbsp; has been rolled into this Service Pack Beta release. In addition, there are also a number of bug fixes from Visual Studio 2008 RTM that are included in this update. Some of the improvements are:<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>o<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"ltr\"><\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\/feedback\/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=312421\"><span><font color=\"#0000ff\">Connect bug<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">: Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM or vc\/bin\/ml.exe) has been included in Visual C++ Express<span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>o<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"ltr\"><\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\/feedback\/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=282486\"><span><font color=\"#0000ff\">Connect bug<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">: Silent bad codegen in _mm_load_ss() and _mm_load_sd() intrinsics is fixed<span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>o<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"ltr\"><\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\/feedback\/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=317765\"><span><font color=\"#0000ff\">Connect bug<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">: Fixed the bug where the linker would report the message &#8220;Fatal Error &#8211; LNK 1000: Internal error during Image::BuildImage&#8221;<span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><span>o<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span dir=\"ltr\"><\/span><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Calibri\">For the feature pack, broken strings in class and file views are fixed<span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">Please see the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=110456\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"3\">Visual Studio readme<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">&nbsp; and the <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=111607\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"3\">Express readme<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"> for more details.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">We look forward to your feedback!<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">Thanks,<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">Vikas Bhatia<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\">Visual C++ Development Team<\/font><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very excited to announce that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is now available for download. 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