How can I tell if SP1 has been installed on VS2008?

Question

How can I tell if SP1 has been installed on VS2008? e.g. If I'm working on a co-worker's machine - how can I tell if he/she has installed SP1 for VS2008?

Answer 1

In Help->About, you can view the installed products. You should see something similar to

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB945140) KB945140

in the list of entries.

Answer 2

Open Visual Studio 2008 and click Help>About. If you do have MS VS SP1 installed, the upper left corner should look like this:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 version 9.0.30729.1 SP

The upper right corner states what version of Microsoft .NET Framework you have and may show that it has SP 1 installed, but this DOES NOT mean you have Visual Studio SP 1 installed.

Here is a link to a picture: http://quick-page.net/46ad2310

Hope this helps! Iconoclast

Answer 3

You may also be able to tell by looking in the registry here

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DevDiv[ProductFamily]\Servicing\9.0\

then finding a property named something like "SP" or "SPIndex". A value of 1 means installed, and 0 means not installed.

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