Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
March 2, 2011Mar 2, 201103/2/11On average customers are experience ~45 minute installs for Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Based on machine performance, even seeing install times of a little over an hour isn’t unexpected. But if VS2010 SP1 is taking more than a couple hours to install,
February 20, 2011Feb 20, 201102/20/11Often I’m asked why installing a Windows Installer patch (MSP) takes as long or longer to install than the target product (MSI). While this isn’t always the case for every patch, it’s certainly possible for a number of reasons. It may also come as a surprise that the size of the patch can have little to do with the time to install the patch.
July 3, 2009Jul 3, 200907/3/09Windows Installer 4.5 introduced a feature to install multiple packages in a single transaction. Multi-package transactions allow setup developers to install multiple packages as an atomic unit that are installed together, or rolled back completely. You can also apply patches to multiple products or even repair multiple products –
April 13, 2009Apr 13, 200904/13/09When 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.
March 12, 2009Mar 12, 200903/12/09When attempting to uninstall a patch from the products listed in the Applies To section below, the following error may occur.
Internal Error 2771. M953297
The last part of the error message will vary with each patch, where the last 6 digits are the knowledge base article related to the patch.
February 2, 2009Feb 2, 200902/2/09Windows Installer 5.0 is shipping in Windows 7 as part of the operating system. To address the issue where the User Account Control consent dialog is displayed with an “Unidentified Publisher”, the .msi package is cached in its entirety.
Prior to Windows Installer 5.0,
December 11, 2008Dec 11, 200812/11/08When installing Visual Studio 2008, you might run into an error dialog that reads,
Error 1330.A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file D:\cab1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt.
August 16, 2008Aug 16, 200808/16/08Some customers are reporting that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is failing to install with the following error in the HTML log you can view from the error dialog.
Patch (C:UsersheathsAppDataLocalTEMPWebDesignerCore_KB950278.msp) install failed on product (Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007). Msi Log: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1_20080816_141317516-Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007-MSP0.txt
Final Result: Installation failed with error code: (0x80070663),
August 11, 2008Aug 11, 200808/11/08Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, and Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1 have been released. This is a big release on the heals of SQL Server 2008 which has a dependency on .and includes NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
July 7, 2008Jul 7, 200807/7/08Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 uses a new bootstrap application that chains several packages together for a seamless installation experience. Because VS2008 SP1 contains a lot of fixes and new features, it is also quite large – almost 3 times as large as VS2005 SP1.
