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Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix Rollup

Wisdom cannot and must not be sold for money -- Plato This Hotfix rollup addresses a number of issues and is a good example of how Scott Guthrie and his crew are able to nimbly respond to various issues and push out easy-to-install updates that fix various bugs and issues. This is in keeping with their stated goal of more frequently releasing public patches that roll-up bug-fixes of commonly reported problems. Scott explains more on his blog . The collection of fixes addresses issues with the HTML Editor source view performance, Design View performance, HTML editing, Javascript editing, web site build performance when there are a large number of assemblies in the /bin folder, and more. After successful installation, if you select the Help->About menu item, there is an entry that says Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite – ENU (KB946581). I noticed a definite improvement in Solution load time and more responsiveness in the IDE in general after installin...

Windows Vista "Pre -SP1" Performance and Reliability Update

There's stuff out now that apparently has punched MS's Hotbutton enough times so that they are releasing the fixes now -- before Service Pack 1 comes out. We got some real chemistry here -- I felt it! The info and download page for this is here . This isn't a very long list of "Fixes", but the ones I list here (assuming they work!) will make me feel better: When you copy or move a large file, the "estimated time remaining" takes a long time to be calculated and displayed. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... say what? After you resume the computer from hibernation, it takes a long time to display the logon screen. After you resume the computer from hibernation, the computer loses its default gateway address. Poor memory management performance occurs. You gotta just love that last one "Poor memory management performance occurs" - man if that isn't the biggest catch-all for whatever Vista ailment you've got! Did you know that over 50% of Windows Vista...