Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

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Workaround for 0x8007007e when trying to to locate an instance of Visual Studio

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18
Heath Stewart
We are investigating how a particular rare problem occurs that can prevent clients like VSIXInstaller.exe, vswhere.exe, and others from finding any Visual Studio instance that results in an error similar to the following: (image) This is the CLSID for the Visual Studio Installer query API, and despite being registered the COM server DLL...

Windows Installer PowerShell Module 2.2.0 Released

June 13, 2013 Jun 13, 2013 06/13/13
Heath Stewart
Years 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). Earlier ...