Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

September 2010 - Visual Studio Setup

Restart Manager functionality in WiX 3.5

September 16, 2010 Sep 16, 2010 09/16/10
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 – ...

Downgrading Shared Components

September 8, 2010 Sep 8, 2010 09/8/10
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 ...