Applying Vista SP1 caused VS 2008 compiles to fail (includes fix) http://blogs.lotterypost.com/speednet/2008/2/applying-vista-sp1-caused-vs-2008-compiles-to.htm Speednet's Blog: Applying Vista SP1 caused VS 2008 compiles to fail (includes fix) en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator Original Blog Entry: Applying Vista SP1 caused VS 2008 compiles to fail (includes fix) http://blogs.lotterypost.com/speednet/2008/2/applying-vista-sp1-caused-vs-2008-compiles-to.htm http://blogs.lotterypost.com/speednet/2008/2/applying-vista-sp1-caused-vs-2008-compiles-to.htm Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:28:42 GMT Speednet Being a Microsoft Developer Network subscriber, yesterday I was able to get my hands on the new Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), which includes hoards of fixes and performance tweaks.

The install went well, but is slow.  It probably took an hour to install, but that was only after an hour to uninstall the SP1 Release Candidate that I had previously installed.

The biggest pain was having to tell my virus protection software that every file that changed on my PC was OK.  I wish there was an easy way to do that globally.

Anyway, the only anomaly I discovered was that Visual Studio 2008 started coming up with compile errors after applying SP1.  It indicated a problem in the web.config file, on these specific lines:

<compiler language="vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript" extension=".vb" type="Microsoft.VisualBasic.VBCodeProvider, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" warningLevel="4">
    <providerOption nam....

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