“It’s better to have known bugs rather than unknown fixes”. It’s a motto that’s served me well over the years, and it applies particularly to software ‘fix packs’ or ‘service packs’. Well, I broke the rule yesterday and installed Visual Studio SP1. And I’m now re-installing Visual Studio from scratch as I write this. It’s nobody’s fault but mine, and, yes, Microsoft’s.
The problem I’ve got is that the (...)
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Happened with me too. Looks like whatever productivity gains offered by SP1 gets lost with the time it takes to install it. Looks like MS fired all their QA guys and is using ’cheap’ QA services of community. It took me overnight to install it and in the morning i get a shock when I saw a crazy dialog asking me if I’m sure if I want to install this crap. Obviously I said no and threw the SP1 disk into the trash. I’ll wait for sp2 instead...
