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 –
August 20, 2014Aug 20, 201408/20/14Four 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.
May 31, 2011May 31, 201105/31/11If 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 issue
For Visual Studio 2010 RTM,
March 15, 2011Mar 15, 201103/15/11Now that Visual Studio 2010 SP1 has been released, administrators and developers may wish to install both RTM and SP1 together for a seamless experience. With the release of VS2010 RTM we already published the Visual Studio Administrator Guide that documents a lot of the instructions I’ll utilize below.
August 23, 2010Aug 23, 201008/23/10While 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.
May 4, 2010May 4, 201005/4/10Now that Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 have been released, developers may wonder how to detect them on the system. As with previous releases, we support registry detection of either product family and Windows Installer component detection for Visual Studio.
February 10, 2010Feb 10, 201002/10/10After the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) is installed, there is a button to install the documentation locally. If you have overlooked this option or chose not to install documentation locally and wish to do so later, you can follow these instructions.
February 10, 2010Feb 10, 201002/10/10If you have downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC) from MSDN or the Download Center as an ISO and are having problems installing it, it could be that either the ISO wasn’t downloaded correctly or that it wasn’t burnt to DVD correctly.
February 10, 2010Feb 10, 201002/10/10Announced 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.
October 19, 2009Oct 19, 200910/19/09As 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 development process.
