Wednesday, September 12, 2007

VS 2005 really wants that update

September 11th, 2007. Go to Windows Update. Install all updates. All updates install successfully. Go back to Windows Update. You will still see "Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (KB937061)". Install the update. It installs successfully. Go back to Windows Update. You will still see "Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (KB937061)". etc. etc.
You don't need to watch Groundhog Day again.

[Update] See this thread on the Microsoft VS forum. No solution to this yet, except for installing CrystalReports.

[Update 2] September 14th. Microsoft has now fixed the issue.

2 comments:

Terry Kaufman said...

Linux is calling you. Wait, there is Apple too! How about some coffee?

ml said...

Oh, don't get me started on Linux updates... There is a constant stream of those every day, and they also suddenly completely change your UI. Apple updates? Sometimes they break your system (not that Windows does not have similar issues too).
All in all, no system is perfect.
Also note: this little annoyance only appeared for users of Visual Studio 2005, i.e. developers. Regular users would not have had that problem.