A week ago Mr. Burke ran across an issue with installing SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 (VS2005) where he got a little frustrated with it and stopped the install.  Dave's frustration is understandable; the install of SP1 is almost as long as a fresh install of VS2005 and just before its done it then decides to tell you that you need to uninstall Web Application Projects (WAP).  Thanks to his post I was aware of it when I decided to do the install myself.

So 1 hour and 15 minutes later I've installed SP1.  Yep, an hour and fifteen minutes...  My install might run a few minutes longer since I rebooted after the install just to double check that ReSharper wasn't adversely affected by the update.  FYI - ReSharper ran just fine but I did have to redo my shortcuts.

Here's something else to look for (or try) - I don't think you have to reinstall WAP after installing SP1.  From the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 release notes:

Uninstallation of Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects required:
Follow these steps to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 if you have Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects installed:

1. Uninstall the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects add-in.
2. Install Visual Studio 2005 SP1.

It never says that you need to re-install WAP.  So for me, I uninstalled WAP and installed SP1 and the VS2005 splash screen showed that WAP was still installed.  I went ahead with the WAP install, which requires an update first, and every time I tried to run the WAP install it told me I needed to install the update...which I had already installed.  So, technically, I've not reinstalled WAP but everything is running just like it is installed.  So maybe the release notes are right?

Giddy Up!