MS08-070: Description of the security update for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 development platform: December 9, 2008

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS08-070. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites:

• Home users:
  http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200812.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/updates/bulletins/200812.mspx)
  Skip the details: Download the updates for your home computer or laptop from the Microsoft Update Web site now:
  http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/ (http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/)
• IT professionals:
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-070.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-070.mspx)

How to obtain help and support for this security update

For home users, no-charge support is available by calling 1-866-PCSAFETY in the United States and Canada or by contacting your local Microsoft subsidiary. For more information about how to contact your local Microsoft subsidiary for support issues with security updates, visit the Microsoft International Support Web site: North American customers can also obtain instant access to unlimited no-charge e-mail support or to unlimited individual chat support by visiting the following Microsoft Web site: For enterprise customers, support for security updates is available through your usual support contacts.

To install this security update, you must have at least Windows Installer 3.1 or a later version installed on the computer. To obtain the latest version of Windows Installer for the computer, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

Update removal information

To uninstall this update, use the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel.

Known issues with this security update

For more information about known issues with updates for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

• 959423  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959423/ ) Error message when you try to add the Chart Control ActiveX control or the Masked Edit Control ActiveX control to a form in Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 or in Visual Studio .NET 2002 Service Pack 1: "Failed to import the ActiveX control"
• 939043  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939043/ ) A shared file is rolled back when you uninstall a previously installed update for one edition or SKU on a computer that has more than one edition or SKU of any version of Visual Studio installed
• 939400  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939400/ ) Any files that are shared by the two editions of Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 or of Visual Studio .NET 2002 Service Pack 1 are deleted when you uninstall the edition of the service pack that you installed first
• 938244  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938244/ ) The file version is rolled back to the version that was installed by the last service pack when you remove an update for the .NET Framework 1.0, the .NET Framework 1.1, Visual Studio .NET 2002 or Visual Studio .NET 2003
• 944298  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944298/ ) Error message when you try to install an update for Visual Studio 2005, for Visual Studio .NET 2003, or for Visual Studio .NET 2002: "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable"
• 942380  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942380/ ) Error message when you try to apply a hotfix or an update: "Error 9002. Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Hotfix (KBxxxxxx) cannot be installed because you have one or more hotfixes installed. Remove them and try again."

Command-line switches for this update

For information about the command-line switches that this update supports, see Microsoft security bulletin MS08-070. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site: There is also a document that describes these switches on the MSDN Web site. To view this document, visit the following Microsoft Web site: The Windows Installer MSDN Web site has more information about Windows Installer. To view this information, visit the following MSDN Web site:

The English (United States) version of this security update has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.