Well, there has been some movement from Microsoft's side as to this whole issue of support for Visual Studio in Vista . Not much, but some. Thanks to ahmed for the link to where bharry discusses a whole range of issues. HotFixes They've agreed to now offer Visual Studio hot fixes for download. bharry was very proud that he had managed to get turn-around on this issue in only 3 hours, thinking it pointed to an agile response from Microsoft. Unfortunately the mystery of the unavailable hotfixes...
I just cannot stress how upset I am with the Visual Studio team. Since VS2005 was released, developers have been begging Microsoft for a service pack, or even to make the hot fixes freely available. No such luck. Anyway, about 11 months ago, a guy called Scott Wiltamuth announced that the Service Pack would be released in the first half of 2006. Well, since then it's been a bit of a black hole for this alleged service pack. As the bug reports have piled up and up and up, the VS team has been...