Download Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1

Alex left the following in the submit: “Microsoft is late again, but they have finally made a Service Pack for their development tool Visual Studio .NET 2003 – dating from 2003. Visual Studio 2003 has since been succeeded by Visual Studio 2005, but this update is welcome since a significant number of systems are still developing with the previous version of .NET, including VS.NET 2003.” The first Visual Studio 2003 service pack can be downloaded via this page be tanked inside and takes up a generous 156 megabytes of disk space as a download. As is (hopefully) known, a service pack consists of the updates and patches that have been released since the release of a program. Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2003 also includes many bug fixes, security updates, and patches. Which exactly they are can be read in this Knowledge Base article:

This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. Fixes in this Service Pack concern stability and security enhancements made in many areas of the product.[break]