Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

Verify ISO before burning or mounting Visual Studio 2010 RC

February 10, 2010 Feb 10, 2010 02/10/10
Heath Stewart
If you have downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) from MSDN or the Download Center as an ISO and are having problems installing it, it could be that either the ISO wasn’t downloaded correctly or that it wasn’t burnt to DVD correctly.On the installation error dialog, you will find a link to the installation log. ...

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 RC and Visual Studio 2010 RC Available Now

February 10, 2010 Feb 10, 2010 02/10/10
Heath Stewart
Announced yesterday for MSDN subscribers, the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidates are available today for everyone to download.Feedback on VS2010 RC has been great, and we hope you agree. Feel free to provide feedback about your installation and development experience. Performance was a major focus for the RC...

About Shared Components

December 21, 2009 Dec 21, 2009 12/21/09
Heath Stewart
Components are the basic unit of installation in a Windows Installer product. They are installed by one or more features, and can contain any number of resources including files, assemblies, registry values, and are recommended for custom resources as well. Examples of custom resources are web sites, virtual directories, SQL tables, and stored...

WoW64 is optional in Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core

November 6, 2009 Nov 6, 2009 11/6/09
Heath Stewart
Installation bootstrap applications are increasingly common as products chain dependencies like the Microsoft .NET Framework. Because 64-bit Windows supports both 32- and 64-bit execution, but 64-bit executables on 32-bit Windows give what some users might consider cryptic error messages, installation developers often ship a 32-bit bootstrap ...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Released

October 19, 2009 Oct 19, 2009 10/19/09
Heath Stewart
As announced on Soma’s blog this morning, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 have been released to MSDN Subscribers and will be available for everyone on Wednesday.Visual Studio 2010 boasts a great new user interface with better contrast and lots of UI elements that tend to add confusion to the ...

Booting Windows to a Differencing Virtual Hard Disk

October 13, 2009 Oct 13, 2009 10/13/09
Heath Stewart
Testing software can be fun and rewarding. You get to see new, upcoming features and provide valuable feedback to the developer. But as with most pre-release software, we recommend that you don’t install it on production machines. You could dedicate extra machines for testing, or even test in a virtual machine. Virtual machines are great for...

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 should be removed before upgrading to Windows 7

August 9, 2009 Aug 9, 2009 08/9/09
Heath Stewart
If you have been beta testing Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1, we recommend you install a fresh copy of Windows 7 on your machine. Alternatively, you may also choose to uninstall Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 prior to upgrading to Win7.Microsoft Windows 7 is available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.ProblemIf you have ...

ATL Security Update KB971092 still offered on Microsoft Update

August 9, 2009 Aug 9, 2009 08/9/09
Heath Stewart
A security update for ATL, KB971092, is currently offered for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 customers who have Visual C++ installed. If Microsoft Update is continuously offering this patch to you, you may need to clear up some disk space. The patch is 365MB and contains headers, libraries, and executables for most of Visual C++ including ...

Trouble installing other products after Visual Studio

July 31, 2009 Jul 31, 2009 07/31/09
Heath Stewart
Customers have commented that whenever they try to install other products or patches they continually see the following message, Another installation is in progress. You must complete that installation before continuing this one. Customers may also see instances of msiexec.exe or msiexec.exe*32 appear continuously in Task Manager or other ...