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Installing across network may slow Visual Studio 2010 and Service Pack 1 setup

May 31, 2011 May 31, 2011 05/31/11
Heath Stewart
If you are installing Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 from across the network and are experiencing slow install times, this could be caused by low network bandwidth and long verification times.How to work around this issueFor Visual Studio 2010 RTM, copy the entire contents of the network directory locally. This ...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 has shipped

March 8, 2011 Mar 8, 2011 03/8/11
Heath Stewart
As announced in Soma’s blog post, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been released to MSDN subscribers today and will release to the general public on Thursday, March 10th.We have made a number of significant changes in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 from past releases we hope will make deployment smoother for both developers and administrators alike...

Providing feedback on Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta installation

December 8, 2010 Dec 8, 2010 12/8/10
Heath Stewart
By installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta now (or tomorrow for general availability), you have a great opportunity to provide early feedback before we ship VS2010 SP1 RTM. Not only do we welcome feedback on the updates to the product such as the new Help Viewer, performance regressions, and more; but we also want to hear your feedback on the ...

Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta

December 7, 2010 Dec 7, 2010 12/7/10
Heath Stewart
If you haven’t seen from Soma’s or Jason’s blog, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta is available today for MSDN Subscribers and will be available on Thursday for the general public. This service pack contains a lot of performance improvements and a new Help Viewer based on strong customer feedback. You can find out about more ...

Restart Manager functionality in WiX 3.5

September 16, 2010 Sep 16, 2010 09/16/10
Heath Stewart
WiX 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, the changes may not show up in running instances of Visual Studio. To provide a better experience – ...

Visual Studio 2010 Uninstall Utility

August 23, 2010 Aug 23, 2010 08/23/10
Heath Stewart
While we hope you’ll love Visual Studio 2010 for all the application development it enables with powerful features and a robust extension model that enables great extensions like the Productivity Power Tools, if you ever need to uninstall Visual Studio it can be difficult. If you’ve ever tried to remove Visual Studio you already ...

Customizing Shortcuts for Visual Studio

August 21, 2010 Aug 21, 2010 08/21/10
Heath Stewart
After 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, but some people like to customize these shortcuts ...