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Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 RC and Visual Studio 2010 RC Available Now

February 10, 2010 Feb 10, 2010 02/10/10
Heath Stewart
Announced yesterday for MSDN subscribers, the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidates are available today for everyone to download.Feedback on VS2010 RC has been great, and we hope you agree. Feel free to provide feedback about your installation and development experience. Performance was a major focus for the RC...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Released

October 19, 2009 Oct 19, 2009 10/19/09
Heath Stewart
As announced on Soma’s blog this morning, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 have been released to MSDN Subscribers and will be available for everyone on Wednesday.Visual Studio 2010 boasts a great new user interface with better contrast and lots of UI elements that tend to add confusion to the ...

Booting Windows to a Differencing Virtual Hard Disk

October 13, 2009 Oct 13, 2009 10/13/09
Heath Stewart
Testing 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, or even test in a virtual machine. Virtual machines are great for...

How to work around the issue when opening Office applications repairs Visual Studio

May 29, 2009 May 29, 2009 05/29/09
Heath Stewart
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 customers have been reporting that when they start Outlook or any of the Office applications, VS2010 is repaired. This issue can also happen for VS2005 and VS2008, and for any products using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Besides being an annoyance and potentially taking a while to complete, the repair...

Detecting Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

May 29, 2009 May 29, 2009 05/29/09
Heath Stewart
The Visual Studio 2008 RTM and SP1 detection keys are largely the same as the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 detection keys, and are documented below. But there is a caveat for released and upcoming versions: the shared detection value can be overwritten by an older installation of the same release.For example, if you installed VS2008 Professional, ...

Updated log collection utility available for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1

May 22, 2009 May 22, 2009 05/22/09
Heath Stewart
Last Monday we shipped Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 to MSDN customers, and made them publicly available Wednesday. More information about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 are available on MSDN, and Aaron Stebner has a good collection of direct links.While we have worked hard to reduce install times and ...

Microsoft VS/.NET Log Collection Tool

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09
Heath Stewart
Using the Collect Utility If you encounter any setup issues, we will need all relevant logs. Please follow the instructions below to collect all those logs. Reporting Setup Errors There are several options for reporting setup errors, but you might consider first checking to see if the issue is a known issue. This will save you time and ...

Another Possible Workaround for Error 1330

December 11, 2008 Dec 11, 2008 12/11/08
Heath Stewart
When installing Visual Studio 2008, you might run into an error dialog that reads, Error 1330.A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file D:\cab1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt. The path and name of the cabinet may be different, but might often be D:\cab1....