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Today I had to reinstall. I used to have some hotfixes installed for VS2008 but no longer have them and can't remember why they were necessary. I'm expecting any security-related hotfixes to come through Microsoft Update, but I'm interested in VS bug fixes.

Does anyone have a list of hotfixes that they recommend installing for Visual Studio 2008 SP1?

Alex Angas
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You can find them all here:

http://kbalertz.com/Technology_639.aspx

Look for the ones with a "FIX" prefix.

Update: This is another good source of information about VS2008 updates. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=Visual%20Studio%202008&ProjectSearchText=Hotfix

DmitryK
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  • That's somewhat useful but there are a lot there! Which are important? – Alex Angas Oct 23 '09 at 13:07
  • Hard to tell - I don't know which areas will affect you. I'd say definitely apply this latest ATL patch (MS09-035) plus at least the cumulative ones. E.g. http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB958017 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB957912 http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB967631 – DmitryK Oct 23 '09 at 13:39
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    Page 'kbalertz' not available any more. Can s.o. post a full list here? – Tobias Knauss May 13 '14 at 14:12
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    The code.msdn.com pages are not available any more either. – GSerg Jun 28 '14 at 18:12
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Suggested hotfixes (links updated 4/2015):

If connecting to TFS 2010:

Complete list of VS 2008 hotfixes (including TFS).

tony722
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Alex Angas
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I recently rebuilt my machine. After installing Visual Studio 2008 and SP1 I was wondering about the same thing. In the end I used Windows update to check for updates and it found the following updates:

  • KB2465361
  • KB971092
  • KB72222
  • KB973675

Screen shot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/yFf8H.png

user785286
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All the VS2008 hotfixes are posted in the MSDN Code Gallery. You can search for tags "Visual Studio 2008" and "Hotfixes". You should only install the ones for problems you are actually having. Read through them and decide which ones you need. I would sort them by release date and install from older ones first. Also notice that some are included in other updates, such are the WPF designer hotfix included with the Silverlight tools.

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I'm using Microsoft Connect - Visual Studio and .NET Framework as a source of updates for:

  • .NET 2.0+
  • VS2008
  • VS2010
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I generally go with the ones that are pushed though Microsoft Update.

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    After a clean install of VS 2008 + SP1 there are only security related hotfixes showing (972222 and 973675 related to VS2008). – Alex Angas Oct 23 '09 at 13:14
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I thought that you can get bug fixes though Microsoft Update too.

If they don't come down automatically go to the site and look through the "Software, Optional" ones (or in the "Developer Tools" section).

Select Custom at the first screen and then wait a few minutes while it does it's scan.

However, there aren't any showing for me at the moment so I can't say for sure.

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    After a clean install of VS 2008 + SP1 there are only security related hotfixes showing (972222 and 973675 related to VS2008). – Alex Angas Oct 23 '09 at 13:12