While Microsoft paraded happy customers at the launch, officials acknowledged some dissatisfaction. "The issues that have been raised are ones that we'll look at super closely" said David Treadwell, corporate vice president for the U.S. .Net developer platform at Microsoft.

"There's no such thing as a large software project that's perfect," Treadwell said.

A service pack to amend Visual Studio 2005 will be released at some point, but that is part of the normal product release process, according to Microsoft.

One person has raised concerns about a hanging IDE. Microsoft is evaluating the situation, Treadwell said. But John Montgomery, director of product management for Microsoft's developer division, said the hanging IDE resulted from an improper de-installation of a beta version of Visual Studio 2005.

Rather than griping that Visual Studio 2005 was going out prematurely, some developers have instead chastised Microsoft for excessively withholding the new release, according to Montgomery.