Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
March 11, 2017Mar 11, 201703/11/17One of the top requests I kept hearing for vswhere was to also search older versions of Visual Studio. You can now do that starting with the latest release.
1 | vswhere -legacy -latest -property installationPath |
Even if you don’t have Visual Studio 2017 or newer installed –
June 4, 2012Jun 4, 201206/4/12A few customers have reported the following error after upgrading from VS2012 Beta to the Release Candidate (RC):
Invalid License Data
Reinstall is required.
Aaron Marten on the Visual Studio Extensibility team has a post describing how to fix this issue.
May 31, 2012May 31, 201205/31/12Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate (RC) – formerly known as Visual Studio 11 – is now available for download! Jason Zander’s blog has a lot of great information on all the exciting changes we have made, including improvements to setup.
April 6, 2012Apr 6, 201204/6/12Today we announced a new method of delivering updates using a notification system many Visual Studio developers should be familiar with: the Visual Studio Extension Manager. Developers will now be notified in Visual Studio when updates are available.
When the notification balloon is clicked,
March 7, 2012Mar 7, 201203/7/12Users have asked why space is required on the system drive (typically the C: drive) when they choose to install Visual Studio 11 to another drive.
While Visual Studio 11 does allow you to install the majority of features to another drive,
February 29, 2012Feb 29, 201202/29/12Along with the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, we have released Visual Studio 11 Beta and Jason Zander has announced many of the great new and improved features in VS11 Beta.
We have also introduced a new setup experience with VS11.
