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Dec 4, 2007
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Help Shape the Future of Visual Studio Deployment

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Do you want to help shape the future of deployment for Visual Studio code name "Dev10"? Aaron Ruckman in our Deployment Technologies Group is asking for feedback about what experiences you'd like for the future of Visual Studio.

InstallationVisual Studio
Nov 26, 2007
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Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1, and How to Detect It

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

No doubt you've heard the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 was released. Aaron Stebner has posted a list of links to 3.5, as well as 2.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and 3.0 SP1. It's important to note that if you install 3.5 you're actually getting 2.0 SP1 and 3.0 SP1 both.The .NET Framework 3.5 consists of the following: While 2.0 SP1 and 3.0 SP1 are actua...

InstallationVisual StudioWiX
Nov 20, 2007
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How to Install TFC without PPE

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, now available for MSDN subscribers and Express editions freely available to everyone, is a huge application. It takes a while to install and, in the case of Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, a long time to patch. Installing or patching multiple copies of shared components can be time-consuming. So if you've installed ...

InstallationVisual StudioNews
Oct 18, 2007
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Progress for New Patches

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

You asked. We answered. One source of problems for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 was that VS 2005 SP1 targeted multiple products, and if you had multiple target products installed - most commonly Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 that uses our IDE - multiple instances of dialogs would spawn. Some people thought SP1 was installing again and...

InstallationVisual StudioVS2005SP1
Sep 14, 2007
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Detection Logic fixed for KB937061 (MS07-052)

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Customers have been offered KB937061 for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 from Microsoft Update when they have already installed it. The Microsoft Security Response Center blog has more information about the problem and what they have done to fix it.I wanted to add that because patches are cached according to their package code, you do not have mu...

Visual StudioDevelopmentNews
Jun 28, 2007
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Unchanged Files Break Patch Uninstall

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

I've discussed a couple different reasons that Windows Installer 3.0-style patches - those with the MsiPatchMetadata table in the patch package itself - might not be uninstallable. I explained another reason in a discussion about the new patch build support in Windows Installer XML (WiX) v3 recently, describing why unchanged files should not be upd...

InstallationVisual StudioVS2005SP1
Feb 1, 2007
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How to Safely Delete Orphaned Patches

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

If Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 fails to install, you might find additional .msp files under %WINDIR%\Installer for each failed attempt. You should not simply delete these patches, however, because if one of the patches was applied successfully to one target product, deleting that patch will cause future maintenance installs – including repair...

InstallationVisual StudioVS2005SP1
Jan 17, 2007
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The Patch Cache and Freeing Space

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

When you install a patch using Windows Installer, the .msp file is cached in the %WINDIR%\Installer directory. This accounts for some of the space required by Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. A single patch is cached only once regardless to how many products the patch applies. Starting with Windows Installer 3.0, any patches that contain the Msi...

InstallationVisual StudioVS2005SP1
Dec 17, 2006
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Detecting Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Now that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is released, it can be detected programmatically in various ways. Registry detection is recommended for ease and is less impacted by future changes to the product installation. Because there are many different Visual Studio 2005 editions and service pack 1 patch packages, you may need to perform several pa...

InstallationVisual StudioVS2005SP1
Dec 16, 2006
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Slipstreaming Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Now that Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 is released, some are wondering how to slipstream the patch so they can install Visual Studio 2005 with SP1 already applied. Much of this process is standard practice for Windows Installer packages. Please note this will require a lot of disk space, as you’re unpacking around 3 GB – and more, i...

InstallationVisual StudioVS2005SP1