Installing Updates

To ensure that the application developer tools included with Platform Builder are working properly, it is necessary to install Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. This update can be downloaded directly from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb265237.aspx, or you can search the list of available updates from the Microsoft Web site. Before you start the installation process, make sure you have 3 GB of available free space on your hard drive. Be prepared to wait. The setup process can take a considerably long time.

Double-click the downloaded file VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU.exe to launch the update process. After a while, a screen appears indicating that extraction is in progress, as shown in Figure 2–25.

Figure 2–25. Extraction ...

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