Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
September 16, 2010Sep 16, 201009/16/10WiX 3.5 provides features to integrate with Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010. But like many add-ins, since new files are being added they certainly can’t be in use by devenv.exe. So when we call devenv.exe /setup as part of our install,
August 21, 2010Aug 21, 201008/21/10After installing the last several releases of Visual Studio, you’ll find shortcuts to command prompts that automatically set up the PATH, INCLUDE, LIB, and other environment variables. At least with Visual Studio 2010 these command prompts have larger buffers and enable quick edit mode,
October 13, 2009Oct 13, 200910/13/09Testing software can be fun and rewarding. You get to see new, upcoming features and provide valuable feedback to the developer. But as with most pre-release software, we recommend that you don’t install it on production machines. You could dedicate extra machines for testing,
November 6, 2007Nov 6, 200711/6/07The Application Compatibility (AppCompat) platform in Windows is a powerful feature that allows for fixes on practically any program or package to be loaded on Windows. Windows Installer takes advantage of a protected database full of fixes in the form of transforms and custom action shims.
August 28, 2007Aug 28, 200708/28/07Bret Grinslade, Group Program Manager for our Deployment Technology Group, describes how you can send feedback directly to our team. You can also check a box during setup to have feedback in the form of installation logs sent directly to our system.
July 12, 2007Jul 12, 200707/12/07Windows Installer is a client/server application. When you install a package using msiexec.exe – which is executed by default in response to shell verbs such as Install – or APIs like MsiInstallProduct the package is initially processed under the user’s credentials.
May 31, 2007May 31, 200705/31/07Windows Script custom actions should be avoided. They are difficult to debug, get blocked by virus scanners, and are far more susceptible to machine state than native custom actions. That is indicated by Windows Installer error messages 2738 and 2739, which read:
2738,
March 22, 2007Mar 22, 200703/22/07If you’re attempting to install the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista without having installed Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 first on all applicable products, you will receive Windows error 1642, which reads,
The installer cannot install the upgrade patch because the program being upgraded may be missing or the upgrade patch updates a different version of the program.
March 7, 2007Mar 7, 200703/7/07As Aaron notes, the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista is available on the download center. This patch is available for all supported languages of Visual Studio 2005, unlike the beta which was available in English and Japanese.
