Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
July 7, 2008Jul 7, 200807/7/08The attached ZIP file contains scripts to both enable and disable logging for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service, or BITS. Both scripts must be run elevated so on Windows Vista or newer open an elevated command prompt and run these scripts.
May 16, 2008May 16, 200805/16/08
Before installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, you should first uninstall KB944899, a hotfix which improves performance when stepping through source downloaded from a source server.
If KB944899 is not removed prior to Visual Studio 2008 SP1, sometime during the middle of installation an error will occur and the error dialog is displayed as shown below.
May 12, 2008May 12, 200805/12/08Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Beta) has been released to web, along with Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (Beta). Included as part of .NET 3.5 SP1 are Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 (Beta) and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2 (Beta).
May 10, 2008May 10, 200805/10/08Setup and deployment is a tricky business. Machines can be in many different and often unforeseen states that cause setup to fail. But rarely will setup actually crash, and that is why setup logs are vital to diagnose install, repair, and uninstall problems.
March 7, 2008Mar 7, 200803/7/08While attempting to install Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008, you may get a prompt for source that looks like the following screenshot.
This problem commonly occurs if you have not installed one or more of the features Visual Basic,
February 19, 2008Feb 19, 200802/19/08Yesterday I described an issue when adding new components to existing, not-installed (absent) features the feature tree is installed. This can lead to prompts for source or failed installations.
One workaround is to add new, top-level hidden features. This works well unless new resources have a dependency on the older resources installed by the would-be feature tree –
February 18, 2008Feb 18, 200802/18/08As Developer Division starts to ship patches for the Visual Studio 2008, some users are being prompted for installation source media. This is a resulting of Windows Installer needing the original source files if, for example, files are missing from disk when you repair your product or backup files are not available during patch install.
February 12, 2008Feb 12, 200802/12/08Debugging custom actions isn’t exactly the easiest action to do; Windows Installer spawns separate processes – remoting servers – to run in-process custom actions. Any opportunity to diagnose issues without debugging can be helpful.
For example, an issue that comes up from time to time is leaked handles.
January 15, 2008Jan 15, 200801/15/08A common question is how to create a Windows Installer package that installs 32-bit binaries on 32-bit platforms, and both 32- and 64-bit binaries on 64-bit platforms. If you’re actually trying to install 64-bit binaries to appropriate directories and write to the 64-bit view of the registry,
December 14, 2007Dec 14, 200712/14/07When 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:msdncab2.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt.
