Visual Studio SP1 with Vista

At work, we just upgraded our machines to Quad Xeon x64 machines with four gigs of ram. NICE….. 🙂 But for some reason the manufacturer loaded 64 bit XP, even though we requested Vista. We upgraded it to 64 bit Vista quite easily, problem solved.

I did run into an issue while installing Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005. I was attempting to install the SP1 Vista Update and I kept getting this error that told me that the proper “patches” were not in place, therefore the SP1 Vista Update would not install. To resolve this error you have to actually install SP1 (the regular one) and then the update. IMHO the documentation isnt that great in this area, I got confused…  See for yourself:

“For developers using Visual Studio 2005 on Windows Vista, Microsoft provides an update to Service Pack 1 called Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista. This update builds on the improvements made in SP1 and delivers a first class experience for developers wanting to take advantages of the new features in Windows Vista.“

I was taking this as “this is the SP if you’re on Vista”.

So… to upgrade to SP1 on Vista… do the following:

1. Install SP1

2. Instal The SP1 update for Vista

3. Get you’re code on…