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Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
November 10, 2005Nov 10, 200511/10/05Beginning with Windows Installer 3.0 you can install multiple patches at once, i.e. in a single install transaction. To do this you pass a semicolon-delimited list of fully-qualified paths to patches to the PATCH property. Windows Installer 2.0-style patches are sequenced first in the ordered specified,
October 24, 2005Oct 24, 200510/24/05Beginning with Windows Installer 2.0 installation developers can write installation packages that target 64-bit platforms. At first only IA64 was supported but support for AMD64 — now collectively referred to along with EM64T as x64 — was added in Windows Installer 3.0.
June 7, 2005Jun 7, 200506/7/05If you’ve tried to install the .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 redistributable for either ia64 or x64 from an administrative installation point, you might’ve seen an error like the following:
While investigating patching scenarios for 64-bit SKUs I found that for source extraction and administrative installs the 32- and 64-bit files map to the same paths.
April 25, 2005Apr 25, 200504/25/05Not so long ago, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 for x64 were released to manufacturing (RTM’d). Today, they have finally shipped and are available to consumers, but you won’t find these yet on retail sales shelves.
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is available on x64 machines now,
April 15, 2005Apr 15, 200504/15/05Working on 32- and 64-bit patch support for Developer Division projects like the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, I’ve been involved with many threads and in many meetings about the various scenarios and solutions for producing patches that target our supported platform architectures.
March 31, 2005Mar 31, 200503/31/05Yesterday was a truly remarkable day. Not since Windows NT 3.1 released in 1993 have we seen such a shift in computing on Windows to another architecture. Windows Server 2003 SP1 for x64 and Windows XP Professional for x64 were released to manufacturing (RTM).
February 17, 2005Feb 17, 200502/17/05With the .NET Framework 2.0 now supporting 64-bit platforms, I have begun work on upgrading our patch build system to handle 64-bit patches. It’s been quite an adventure down the yellow-brick road of 64 bitness that I think is worth sharing.
Why does the .NET Framework need to support 64-bit platforms,
