Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

February 2012 - Visual Studio Setup

Announcing Visual Studio 11 Beta

February 29, 2012 Feb 29, 2012 02/29/12
Heath Stewart
Along with the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we have released Visual Studio 11 Beta and Jason Zander has announced many of the great new and improved features in VS11 Beta. We have also introduced a new setup experience with VS11. (image) Setup is built atop Burn, the Windows Installer XML engine, as well as the managed ...

Introducing Sticky Patching and Add-ons

February 21, 2012 Feb 21, 2012 02/21/12
Heath Stewart
Late last week I checked in a feature for Windows Installer XML’s (WiX) chainer, Burn, that I’m really excited about (ask my colleagues): sticky patching.This is a feature at the bundle (what we call our composition of packages for Burn) level that supports related bundles of type “Patch” and “Addon”. ...

Introducing Package Reference Counting

February 21, 2012 Feb 21, 2012 02/21/12
Heath Stewart
These days it’s more common to install products composed of more than one installer package. Modern applications are often a loose fitting of localized components and being authored into a single package just isn’t practical.For example, a localized application will undoubtedly have neutral or single-language binaries while using ...