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Currently available hotfixes for VC2005

After the launch of VS2005 in November, MS created a bunch of hotfixes for “important” bugs in VC-Compiler / CRT/MFC and IDE.

Here is a list of (hopefully) all Hotfixes, which are currently available from MS (mostly via PSS):

• FIX: The stream operator (>>) does not correctly handle an integer-comma combination in Visual C++ 2005
• FIX: An access violation may occur when you try to run a Visual C++ 2005 application that contains OMG CORBA IDL code
• FIX: You receive LNK2001 and LNK1120 error messages when you use the Vcbuild.exe command-line tool to build a Visual C++ solution
• FIX: You may receive an invalid type exception when floating-point optimization of a Visual C++ application occurs in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: The Visual Studio 2005 IDE stops responding when you work with a large Visual C++ .NET solution in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: IntelliSense may stop working, and Visual Studio may crash, when you try to open a large Managed C++ project in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: Error message when you use certain code patterns that involve the IDisposable interface in the Visual Studio 2005 C++ compiler: Fatal error C1001
• FIX: A native application takes a long time to start when you try to debug the application by using Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: The IDE stops responding when you build a project that generates lots of text in the Output window in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: Error message when you use the debugger in Visual Studio 2005 to debug an MFC class library application: Managed Debugging Assistant LoaderLock has detected a problem in filename.exe
• FIX: The position of the Properties window may not be saved after you exit Visual Studio 2005 on a dual-monitor system
• FIX: You may receive an error message when you use the VCBuild.exe command-line tool or the MSBuild.exe command-line tool to build a solution in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: Visual Studio 2005 may unexpectedly quit when you try to view MSDN documentation or when you try to create a new Visual C++ project on Windows XP Service Pack 2
• An attributed ATL-based COM server unexpectedly exits in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: You may receive an error message when you rebuild a solution and try to view a Windows Form in Design view in Visual Studio 2005

Added 2006-07-06:

• FIX: You may experience slow performance and increased memory usage when you start the debugger for a Visual C++ project in Visual Studio 2005

Added 2006-07-23:

• FIX: A fread function call fails when you use the fread function to read a file that is larger than 4 GB in Visual Studio 2005 on 64-bit systems
• FIX: A floating-point exception may occur when an inline function in a C++ application returns an uninitialized floating-point variable in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: The Atls.pdb file and the Atlsd.pdb file contain incomplete debugging information when you debug an ATL-based C++ application in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: You may receive a ‘Fatal error C1902’ error message and a solution build may fail when you try to use the AT command or a scheduled task to automate a build of a C or C++ project in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: You receive a ‘type mismatch’ error message when you build a C++-based attributed ATL component and you call the ATL component from Visual Basic Scripting Edition in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: Japanese, Chinese, or Korean characters in resource files may be overwritten by question marks after you convert a Visual C 6.0-based project to Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: Custom build steps may not run when you add the custom build steps to a Visual C++ 2005 Win32 static library project in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: The COlePropertyPage object of a Visual C++ application may be deleted when the BoundPropertyChanged function is invoked, and Visual Studio 2005 may unexpectedly close

Added 2006-08-10:

• FIX: You may receive multiple error messages and experience a significant delay when you use the MSBuild.exe tool and the .NET Framework 2.0 to build a Visual C# or Visual C++ solution
• BUG: You may receive compilation errors when you define the _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC constant and include the Stdlib.h file in a C++ application in Visual Studio 2005
• FIX: When you modify a resource file in a Visual C++ 2005-based project and then try to exit the IDE, Visual Studio may crash

If you encounter some of the problem, you now know what to do ;-)

By the way: The Service Pack 1 is expected in Q3 this year