Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

April 2015 - Visual Studio Setup

Visual Studio 2013 continuously repairs producing many small log files

April 20, 2015 Apr 20, 2015 04/20/15
Heath Stewart
If you have Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate editions installed and are finding many small MSI*.log files in your %TEMP% directory, you may find you are running low on disk space because of how many of these files are created. While they may only be about 3MB, what causes these files to be produced can do so ...

Detection keys for Visual Studio 2015

April 13, 2015 Apr 13, 2015 04/13/15
Heath Stewart
Administrators and developers who need to detect whether Visual Studio 2015 is installed can use similar registry keys as with past releases. This time around, though, we’ve made some changes to the lineup of products but the registry scheme remains the same. Most of the detection keys are found in the 32-bit registry hive – the ones you...