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 –
September 12, 2014Sep 12, 201409/12/14I previously blogged about a problem some customers were running into that prevented Visual Studio Update from installing. You might see a dialog like the one to the right and an error message that read something like,
Update 2 does not apply,
February 11, 2014Feb 11, 201402/11/14Visual 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,
November 27, 2012Nov 27, 201211/27/12To 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,
October 8, 2012Oct 8, 201210/8/12Visual Studio 2012 Update (VSUpdate) is our way of delivering fixes and, in some cases, new features to our VS2012 customers. The latest Community Technical Preview (CTP) is available for download now.
See the ALM and TFS blog post for more information.
August 23, 2012Aug 23, 201208/23/12Symptom
Customers 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.
August 22, 2012Aug 22, 201208/22/12Windows To Go is a cool new enterprise features to enable a mobile workforce to carry around an enterprise-managed installation of Windows on a USB thumb drive. However, only certified thumb drives appear as fixed drives and, therefore, Visual Studio 2012 can only install to certified drives.
August 17, 2012Aug 17, 201208/17/12This was a preview of a Knowledge Base article which has been published as KB2746268.
Symptom
After Visual Studio 2012 has been installed, the finish page displays the following:
Setup Completed However, not all features installed correctly.
Please correct the following problems to ensure full product functionality.
August 17, 2012Aug 17, 201208/17/12Now that Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 have been released, some customers are wondering if they need to uninstall the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate (RC) first before upgraded. In general, the answer is “no”. VS2012 RC will upgrade to RTM,
August 3, 2012Aug 3, 201208/3/12Administrators and developers who need to detect if Visual Studio 2012 is installed on a machine can use similar keys as those used for past releases like Visual Studio 2010. In general, these detection keys are always found in the 32-bit registry hive with a pattern like:
Core product: HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftDevDivFamilyServicingVersionEdition
Installed languages: HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftDevDivFamilyServicingVersionEditionLCID
So if you needed to detect if VS2012 Ultimate is installed,
