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    Visual Studio Setup

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    August 2007 | Visual Studio Setup

    Upload Installation Logs on Vista Today
    Upload Installation Logs on Vista Today
    Avatar Heath Stewart August 28, 2007 Aug 28, 2007 08/28/07
    Bret Grinslade, Group Program Manager for our Deployment Technology Group, describes how you can send feedback directly to our team. You can also check a box during setup to have feedback in the form of installation logs sent directly to our system. As Bret notes, however, on Vista uploading logs can take up to 30 days before you're prompted ...
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    What's New in Windows Installer 4.5: Overview
    What's New in Windows Installer 4.5: Overview
    Avatar Heath Stewart August 27, 2007 Aug 27, 2007 08/27/07
    The What's New section of the Windows Installer 4.5 CHM available in the downloads section of the Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Connect site has technical details of new functionality and changes as usual, but now that we can talk about Windows Installer 4.5 I wanted to provide an overview of the new functionality. I'll be detailing several ...
    Comments are closed.0Custom ActionsInstallation
    Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Available
    Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Available
    Avatar Heath Stewart August 25, 2007 Aug 25, 2007 08/25/07
    Windows Installer 4.5 Beta is now available to those signed up through Connect. Along with the whitepapers posted earlier, binaries for x86, x64, and IA64; headers; and libraries are all available.Expect to see more technical details on individual Windows Installer 4.5 features in the weeks to come...
    Comments are closed.0InstallationMSI4.5
    Performance Issue to be Addressed in .NET 3.5
    Performance Issue to be Addressed in .NET 3.5
    Avatar Heath Stewart August 14, 2007 Aug 14, 2007 08/14/07
    Current .NET Framework patches may not NGEN some assemblies as was recently discovered for KB928365. We have worked out a solution and Surupa Biswas, a PM on the CLR team, wanted me to pass along the following information. As indicated in this post, an update to the CLR or to just the Framework 2.0 assemblies can leave applications based on ...
    Comments are closed.0InstallationNews
    WiX v3 Patching Improvements
    WiX v3 Patching Improvements
    Avatar Heath Stewart August 13, 2007 Aug 13, 2007 08/13/07
    In last week's release some changes to patching with WiX were made with more exciting changes to come. Peter Marcu has implemented some changes he'll talk more about on his blog, but suffice to say has reduced the number of commands and command line arguments required to build a patch.I've added some documentation for the new the patch build ...
    Comments are closed.0InstallationWiX
    No Environment Change Notification when Reboot Required
    No Environment Change Notification when Reboot Required
    Avatar Heath Stewart August 10, 2007 Aug 10, 2007 08/10/07
    The documentation for the WriteEnvironmentStrings action states, Note that environment variables do not change for the installation in progress when either the WriteEnvironmentStrings action or RemoveEnvironmentStrings action are run. On Windows 2000, this information is stored in the registry and a message is sent to notify the system of...
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