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Visual Studio 2010 uninstall utility back online

August 20, 2014 Aug 20, 2014 08/20/14
Heath Stewart
Four years ago I published a utility to help perform a clean uninstall of Visual Studio 2010. Before we added package reference counting and related bundles to Visual Studio setup, we couldn’t always be sure which products were still required so not everything was removed. This utility will remove everything provided one of a few command...

Error in installation log for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC can be misleading

April 17, 2014 Apr 17, 2014 04/17/14
Heath Stewart
Given many of the exciting announcements and features demonstrated recently at Build 2014, customers are downloading Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC. This update is quite a bit bigger than VS2013 Update 1 since it contains many new features. A small number of customers, however, are experiencing problems installing VS2013.2 RC. Symptoms ...

How to relocate the Package Cache

February 11, 2014 Feb 11, 2014 02/11/14
Heath Stewart
Visual Studio can require a lot of space on the system drive. Based on years of data collected from customers’ installations from the Customer Experience Improvement Program, we took advantage of this feature in Burn – the Windows Installer XML (WiX) chainer – to eliminate most errors during repair, servicing, and even uninstall. This ...

Upgrading Visual Studio 2013 Update to a newer Update may be slow

January 21, 2014 Jan 21, 2014 01/21/14
Heath Stewart
Our first public release of Visual Studio Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is available. There are, however, a couple of known issues in hopefully uncommon scenarios. Fixed We have fixed this in future versions of Visual Studio Update. This post is kept for historical reasons should any users have problems upgrading from pre-release ...

Uninstalling Visual Studio 2013 with VSUpdate error: Element not found

January 21, 2014 Jan 21, 2014 01/21/14
Heath Stewart
Our first public release of Visual Studio Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is available. There are, however, a couple of known issues in hopefully uncommon scenarios. Symptom (image) If you attempt to uninstall Visual Studio 2013 after VSUpdate has been installed, you may see an error after a while that reads “Element not found.” ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 has Released

November 27, 2012 Nov 27, 2012 11/27/12
Heath Stewart
To provide incremental value to our customers, we have released Visual Studio Update 1 and will be notifying all Visual Studio 2012 customers via toast notifications (like you get for VS package updates) soon.Soma’s blog has more information on VSUpdate in general, as well as some of the features you can expect. And check out Brian&rsquo...

Visual Studio 2012 RTM will not install on pre-release versions of Windows 8

August 23, 2012 Aug 23, 2012 08/23/12
Heath Stewart
SymptomCustomers installing Visual Studio 2012 RTM on pre-release versions of Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 may see the following error after launching the setup application: The .Net Framework installed on this machine does not meet the minimum required version: 4.5.50709. This is a blocking error and only allows the install to be canceled...