At the end of June 2007, Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Service Pack 1 went live for download via the Download Center. The refresh is addressed at users of the Visual Studio 2005 Standard, Professional, Team editions. With 431.7 MB, Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 is an installation that you have to plan for. SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 was initially released in mid December 2006, and it provided users with support for Core Duo processors, integration with the Office 2007 System and enhancements in Team Foundation Server.

"Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 continues Microsoft's investment in market leading development tools. Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customers and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. The issues addressed range in severity from places where the syntax coloring was incorrect to customer reported crashes in various scenarios. In some areas, more than 50% of the bugs addressed were reported by customers through the MSDN Product Feedback Center and Microsoft Connect. Overall, Service Pack 1 offers customers improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance for Visual Studio 2005," Microsoft revealed.

Now Microsoft is delivering SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite, concomitantly offering improvements in stability, performance and security. Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite SP1 is supported on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. Microsoft has warned that the deployment process will hug consistent networking resources and will span over a considerable amount of time in direct correlation with the volume of upgraded Visual Studio 2005 solutions.

"When installing on Windows Vista with User Account Control (UAC) active, there can be a substantial delay before the initial setup dialog is displayed. During this time, a UAC function is verifying digital signatures within the installation package. This service pack carries a large number of files causing the process to take up to one hour in some cases," Microsoft added.