Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

March 2011 - Visual Studio Setup

Verify the ISO checksum for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 before installing

March 25, 2011 Mar 25, 2011 03/25/11
Heath Stewart
While we recommend installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 using the web download – which only downloads and install those packages needed on your machine – you can also download an ISO for offline use. If you downloaded the ISO for VS2010 SP1 from the Microsoft Download Center or from MSDN Subscriber Downloads, please verify the ...

Installing Visual Studio 2010 RTM and Service Pack 1 together

March 15, 2011 Mar 15, 2011 03/15/11
Heath Stewart
Now that Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been released, administrators and developers may wish to install both RTM and SP1 together for a seamless experience. With the release of VS2010 RTM we already published the Visual Studio Administrator Guide that documents a lot of the instructions I’ll utilize below. I encourage you to review that ...

Installing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 may prompt for source

March 14, 2011 Mar 14, 2011 03/14/11
Heath Stewart
Some users are reporting that when installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 they are prompted for MSI files as shown in the following example screenshot. These prompts for source are most common during rollback on failed install attempts and uninstall since original RTM files need to be put back on the machine and may not have been cached by Windows ...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 has shipped

March 8, 2011 Mar 8, 2011 03/8/11
Heath Stewart
As announced in Soma’s blog post, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been released to MSDN subscribers today and will release to the general public on Thursday, March 10th.We have made a number of significant changes in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 from past releases we hope will make deployment smoother for both developers and administrators alike...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 installing for over 2 hours could be a sign of a problem

March 2, 2011 Mar 2, 2011 03/2/11
Heath Stewart
On average customers are experience ~45 minute installs for Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Based on machine performance, even seeing install times of a little over an hour isn’t unexpected. But if VS2010 SP1 is taking more than a couple hours to install, there could be a problem and in the case described below requires user action.Description ...