Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

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My One-year Anniversary

August 16, 2005 Aug 16, 2005 08/16/05
Heath Stewart
Today is my one-year anniversary here at Microsoft and I have had the opportunity to work with a lot of great people and on great projects. I've seen two betas of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 and a myriad of Community Technology Previews (CTPs) go out the door, improved some of the patching technology for older ...

The Dangers of ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT

August 5, 2005 Aug 5, 2005 08/5/05
Heath Stewart
Back in March I wrote about the dangers of using the RunOnce and Run registry keys. This is another post to help you avoid some other pitfalls.The ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property in Windows Installer does not actually do anything directly to your installation — Windows Installer doesn't even check for it. What does happen, however, is that ...