{"id":22100,"date":"2006-12-20T12:42:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T19:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/aspnet\/?p=22100"},"modified":"2006-12-20T12:42:38","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T19:42:38","slug":"visual-studio-2005-sp1-released-details-about-changes-for-web-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/visual-studio-2005-sp1-released-details-about-changes-for-web-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2005 SP1 released – details about changes for web tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many of you may heard Visual Studio 2005 SP1<\/a> was officially released several days ago.  There have already been a couple of blog posts announcing the release from ScottGu<\/a> and Soma<\/a>.  One item of feedback I saw on those posts was a request for more information about the actual fixes in SP1.<\/p>\n

I’m writing this blog post to provide more information about the SP1 fixes in the “web tools” area — specifically those pieces of Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Web Developer 2005 Express used to target ASP.NET.  I’ll also include a list of bug fixes we made to “web tools” so people can have more detail into what was fixed.  NOTE: the information here only pertains to “web tools” in Visual Studio 2005, and does not represent everything that was fixed in SP1 (there were many other bug fixes in parts of Visual Studio outside of “web tools”).<\/p>\n

If anyone out there is using Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer 2005 Express to do ASP.NET development, I highly recommend installing SP1.  With SP1 you get the following big benefits for ASP.NET development (I’ll cover each in more detail below):<\/p>\n

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  1. Addition of Web Application Projects feature (note – does not apply to Visual Web Developer 2005 Express)<\/li>\n
  2. Improvements to performance of ASP.NET features in the IDE<\/li>\n
  3. Bug fixes to many customer reported issues<\/li>\n
  4. Changes to enable support for ASP.NET AJAX scenarios<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1. Addition of Web Applicaiton Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Web Application Projects is a new feature that is made available in Visual Studio 2005 SP1.  Web Application Projects uses a project-file just like Visual Studio 2003 web projects, and provides most of the same functionality available in web projects in Visual Studio 2003.  If you are converting a web project from Visual Studio 2003, Web Application Projects makes the conversion pretty much seamless.  If you would like to know more about this new feature, there is much more detailed information about Web Application Projects here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    2. Improvements to performance of ASP.NET features in the IDE<\/strong><\/p>\n

    SP1 has several improvements to increase performance of the Visual Studio IDE when doing ASP.NET development.  <\/p>\n