Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
July 17, 2015Jul 17, 201507/17/15When you install Visual Studio and related content like Windows Kits or some add-ons, most packages that comprise those bundles are reference counted to make sure they are not removed prematurely. Uninstalling Visual Studio and related content should eventually remove those packages (i.e.
June 9, 2015Jun 9, 201506/9/15Visual Studio can require a lot of space on the system drive, and previous methods of redirecting the Package Cache can be tricky for some people to set up or even maintain as junctions across volumes may be removed on boot.
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,
May 23, 2014May 23, 201405/23/14We have investigated reports of some installs of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 reporting that no applicable updates are available even when VS2013 is installed. We have been unable to reproduce the cause in our labs and besides offering a workaround,
May 1, 2014May 1, 201405/1/14Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC introduces some cool new features and adds an option to slipstream the install of VS2013 RTM with Update 2 RC, but some attempts to download it have had the following problem.
Problem
When installing VS2013 Update 2 you see the error or warning message,
April 17, 2014Apr 17, 201404/17/14Given many of the exciting announcements and features demonstrated recently at Build 2014, customers are downloading Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC. This update is quite a bit bigger than VS2013 Update 1Â since it contains many new features. A small number of customers,
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,
January 21, 2014Jan 21, 201401/21/14Our first public release of Visual Studio Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is available. There are, however, a couple of known issues in hopefully uncommon scenarios.
Fixed
We have fixed this in future versions of Visual Studio Update. This post is kept for historical reasons should any users have problems upgrading from pre-release versions of Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 to the final release bits of VSUpdate 1.
January 21, 2014Jan 21, 201401/21/14Our first public release of Visual Studio Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 is available. There are, however, a couple of known issues in hopefully uncommon scenarios.
Symptom
If you attempt to uninstall Visual Studio 2013 after VSUpdate has been installed,
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,
