Microsoft has made available a Service Pack for the Visual Studio .Net 2003 developer platform, according to a blog by Microsoft executive S. “Soma” Somasegar.”“Today I’m pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 (VS .NET 2003 SP1),” said Somaseger, who is corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division. “For those of you unaware of the Service Pack process, the goal is to make sure that we capture and address issues with the released product and make these fixes available to you in a single deliverable.”“The first Service Pack incorporates hotfixes released since Visual Studio 2003 first shipped, Security Updates, critical fixes and other additional fixes for problems that our Visual Studio team testers have discovered. We’ve also incorporated bugs reported through the MSDN Product Feedback Center and the top 50 percent of crashes reported by the Windows Error Reporting Service. This amounts to more than 400 issues overall that we have fixed in SP1,” Somasegar said. The service pack is available here.Meanwhile, a planned service pack for the more recent Visual Studio 2005 package is a high priority at Microsoft, Somasegar said. Software Development