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Dec 8, 2010
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Providing feedback on Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta installation

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

By installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta now (or tomorrow for general availability), you have a great opportunity to provide early feedback before we ship VS2010 SP1 RTM. Not only do we welcome feedback on the updates to the product such as the new Help Viewer, performance regressions, and more; but we also want to hear your feedback on the ...

InstallationVisual StudioVS2010SP1
Dec 7, 2010
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Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

If you haven’t seen from Soma’s or Jason’s blog, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta is available today for MSDN Subscribers and will be available on Thursday for the general public. This service pack contains a lot of performance improvements and a new Help Viewer based on strong customer feedback. You can find out about more changes to ...

InstallationVisual StudioNews
Dec 7, 2010
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Delete shadow copies to compact VHDs and AVHDs

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

For a few years my primary development machine has actually been a VM with source located on a physical hard drive attached to the VM. This helps reduce latency compared to a differencing disk (AVHD) which may need to expand to accommodate additional data (common when building). It’s also easier to maintain than multiple boot entries when ...

TipVirtualization
Sep 16, 2010
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Restart Manager functionality in WiX 3.5

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

WiX 3.5 provides features to integrate with Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010. But like many add-ins, since new files are being added they certainly can’t be in use by devenv.exe. So when we call devenv.exe /setup as part of our install, the changes may not show up in running instances of Visual Studio. To provide a better experience – and ...

InstallationVisual StudioWiX
Sep 8, 2010
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Downgrading Shared Components

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Shared components define shared resources. It might seem obvious, but it’s important to understand that whatever you do to a shared resource during the installation of one product affects those same resources for any other product. For example, when upgrading one product to update files shared with another product, that other product will use...

UninstallMailbagMSI4.5
Aug 24, 2010
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Comparison of PatchWiz and WiX v3 Patch Build

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

The Windows Installer SDK ships a library named patchwiz.dll. This contains the logic to build a patch from pairs of database packages (.msi files, or simply MSIs) along with other configuration properties. Another tool that the SDK ships is msimsp.exe which uses patchwiz.dll and parses command line options. These tools consume an input file with ...

InstallationWiXMailbag
Aug 23, 2010
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Visual Studio 2010 Uninstall Utility

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

While we hope you’ll love Visual Studio 2010 for all the application development it enables with powerful features and a robust extension model that enables great extensions like the Productivity Power Tools, if you ever need to uninstall Visual Studio it can be difficult. If you’ve ever tried to remove Visual Studio you already know ...

Visual StudioUninstallVS2010
Aug 21, 2010
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Customizing Shortcuts for Visual Studio

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

After installing the last several releases of Visual Studio, you’ll find shortcuts to command prompts that automatically set up the PATH, INCLUDE, LIB, and other environment variables. At least with Visual Studio 2010 these command prompts have larger buffers and enable quick edit mode, but some people like to customize these shortcuts to ...

Visual StudioUACMailbag
May 4, 2010
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Detection keys for .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Now that Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 have been released, developers may wonder how to detect them on the system. As with previous releases, we support registry detection of either product family and Windows Installer component detection for Visual Studio. Detecting either product uses a separate set of supported keys. .NET ...

InstallationVisual Studio.NET
Apr 9, 2010
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Major Upgrades with Shared Components

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Major upgrades are Windows Installer products that can be installed like any other product with the added benefit of removing one ore more related products. For example, version 2 of a product can be installed on a clean machine, or on a machine with version 1 already installed and will remove version 1.When another version of a product is removed ...

InstallationUninstallServiceability