Somasegar announced on his blog the availability of the Beta of the first (?) Service Pack for Visual Studio 2005 which can be download from the Microsoft Connect web site if you get in the Beta program. The Beta program runs until the last day of October 2006 so let's hope that the SP1 RTM will be available by the end of 2006.
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/09/26/772250.aspx
Cross-posted from
The .NET Aficionado