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Microsoft readies Vista tools update
Microsoft readies Vista tools update
Filed under: Application Development
Microsoft this Friday or next Monday morning plans to offer an update to its Visual Studio 2005 development environment to tackle issues with building applications for Windows Vista.
The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack Update for Windows Vista tends to issues such as debugging and profiling and creating ASP.Net applications for Internet
Information Server, said Jay Roxe, Microsoft group product manager for Visual Studio. All told, 25 issues are addressed, including a problem with confusing error messages.
“It’s a very contained update designed just for [Vista],” Roxe said.
Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005 came out in early-January. Rather than postpone the Service Pack and wait for the Vista fixes, Microsoft decided to release it and do the Vista update later, Roxe said. This decision was based on customer feedback, he said.
“The update for Vista is many, many, many times smaller than Service Pack 1,” said Roxe.
Vista became available for developers on November 7, 2006 with business access following on November 30 and the consumer release on January 30, 2007. Vista focuses on building better user experiences using Windows Presentation Framework and also features enhancements for SOA and Web services and security improvements. Integrated search also is a Vista highlight, Roxe said.
Microsoft also plans next week to post an interview with S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division, about development of applications on Vista.
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