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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...

Get the Windows Installer PowerShell Module easier with WMF 5.0

December 18, 2015 Dec 18, 2015 12/18/15
Heath Stewart
Many years ago when PowerShell was first in beta, I saw an opportunity to write cmdlets that I could string together in different ways rather than writing and maintaining a bunch of one-off Windows scripts for various day-to-day tasks and customer diagnostics. I created the Windows Installer PowerShell Module to fill that role. These cmdlets ...

Windows Installer PowerShell Module 2.2.1 Released

July 3, 2013 Jul 3, 2013 07/3/13
Heath Stewart
Yesterday I released servicing update 2.2.1, which updates 2.2.0 to fix a few bugs and add a few cool new features: Version-specific documentation has been added, but the most significant change to the documentation is the complete overhaul of the examples. Apart from removing some old examples using deprecated functionality, I ...

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 ...