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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 ...

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 ...

How to work around the issue when opening Office applications repairs Visual Studio

May 29, 2009 May 29, 2009 05/29/09
Heath Stewart
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 customers have been reporting that when they start Outlook or any of the Office applications, VS2010 is repaired. This issue can also happen for VS2005 and VS2008, and for any products using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Besides being an annoyance and potentially taking a while to complete, the repair...

Detecting Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

May 29, 2009 May 29, 2009 05/29/09
Heath Stewart
The Visual Studio 2008 RTM and SP1 detection keys are largely the same as the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 detection keys, and are documented below. But there is a caveat for released and upcoming versions: the shared detection value can be overwritten by an older installation of the same release.For example, if you installed VS2008 Professional, ...

Updated log collection utility available for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1

May 22, 2009 May 22, 2009 05/22/09
Heath Stewart
Last Monday we shipped Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 to MSDN customers, and made them publicly available Wednesday. More information about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 are available on MSDN, and Aaron Stebner has a good collection of direct links.While we have worked hard to reduce install times and ...

Patch Applicability

April 13, 2009 Apr 13, 2009 04/13/09
Heath Stewart
When installing a patch package, Windows Installer first determines if the patch is applicable. Depending on how the patch is installed, this happens a little differently. Windows Installer can determine the list of applicable products, or it can be told to which products the patch should be applied.Possible productsTo have Windows Installer ...