Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 Beta Announcement

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Microsoft is committed to making customers successful with Visual Studio and the .NET Framework.  As part of this continuing effort, we are now announcing our target date to release the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta this month, (March, 2006) and we also have an estimated RTM release targeted for June 2006.

At Microsoft, our Service Packs are broadly defined as a cumulative set of all Hotfixes, security updates, critical and other updates, as well as additional fixes for problems found by Microsoft testers since the release of the product. Service packs may also contain a limited number of customer-requested design changes to features.  

We encourage all interested parties to sign up to participate in the Beta.  You will have the opportunity to use our pre-release product and notify us of any bugs you may discover.  You may apply for the Beta by going to https://connect.microsoft.com and signing up under “Available Programs”.

Release Schedule:    (these are estimated dates)
Beta Release        3/24/2006
RTM                        6/1/2006

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