Configure Visual Studio across your organization with .vsconfig
April 3, 2019Apr 3, 201904/3/19Add a .vsconfig file to your solution root directory to configure Visual Studio consistently across your organization.
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Fast acquisition of vswhere
March 5, 2017Mar 5, 201703/5/17I introduced vswhere last week as an easy means to locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer, along with other products installed with our new installer that provides faster downloads and installs – even for full installs (which has roughly doubled in size with lots of new third-party content).
vswhere Available
February 25, 2017Feb 25, 201702/25/17After feedback on the VSSetup PowerShell module to query Visual Studio 2017 and related products, I’m pleased to say that a native, single-file executable is available on GitHub: vswhere. The VSSetup PowerShell module is also available on GitHub and provides a number of benefits for PowerShell scripts,
Visual Studio Setup PowerShell Module Available
January 25, 2017Jan 25, 201701/25/17To make the new setup configuration APIs more accessible to developers, we have published the “VSSetup” PowerShell module on powershellgallery.com, making it quick and easy to install.
If you have Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 or newer – installed with Windows 10 –
Documentation available for the Setup Configuration API
January 25, 2017Jan 25, 201701/25/17Visual Studio 2017 has brought big changes to extensibility that allow developers to install extensions to different instances and install dependencies. In support of multiple instances, a fast API was required that tools can use to find and launch Visual Studio and related tools,
Changes to Visual Studio “15” Setup
September 15, 2016Sep 15, 201609/15/16We’ve listened to feedback over the years, and while each new release brought changes to the setup experience of Visual Studio and related products, none have been more significant than what we’re doing for Visual Studio “15”.
New setup engine
With Visual Studio supporting so many platforms and toolkits,
Insert GUIDs directly into Visual Studio Code
January 30, 2016Jan 30, 201601/30/16Let me preface this by stating I love Visual Studio Code! While I think its big, older brother Visual Studio is great for large solutions or even small projects where project files are managed automatically by the IDE, Code work great for small,
How to register your program for file extensions shared with other programs
August 21, 2014Aug 21, 201408/21/14One frequently asked question is, “how do we register our program for a file extension when other versions (or programs) that handle it might also be installed?”
The overarching question is really about how to have non-shared resources both write to a shared resource.
Windows Installer PowerShell Module 2.2.1 Released
July 3, 2013Jul 3, 201307/3/13Yesterday I released servicing update 2.2.1, which updates 2.2.0 to fix a few bugs and add a few cool new features:
You can define the [string] $MsiAttributeColumnFormat variable to dictate how attribute columns should appear. The values you can pass are the same as the enumeration format strings,
Windows Installer PowerShell Module 2.2.0 Released
June 13, 2013Jun 13, 201306/13/13Years ago I released PowerShell cmdlets (“command-lets”) that make querying product and patch information easy and robust. Windows PowerShell is a powerful shell that pipes objects – not simply text – and provides full access to the .NET Framework as part of the language (though higher-level constructs are most often better).