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. Setup is built atop Burn, the Windows Installer XML engine, as well as the managed bootstrapper ...

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”. ...
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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 ...