{"id":1993,"date":"2006-10-04T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2006\/10\/04\/introducing-the-patch-applicability-browser\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T19:42:00","slug":"introducing-the-patch-applicability-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/introducing-the-patch-applicability-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Patch Applicability Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m pleased to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/saraford\">Sara<\/a> has helped me post a useful tool I wrote to help eliminate confusion to which products a patch applies and which of those products are installed on your system. <\/p>\n<p>There has been quite a bit of confusion because there are a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vstudio\/products\/\">Visual Studio editions<\/a>, and the Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, is used by other developers as a hosting platform for their add-ins, such as the SQL Server 2005 client. Some users were finding that a patch for Visual Studio reported Windows error 1642, or <code>ERROR_PATCH_TARGET_NOT_FOUND<\/code>. In many cases only the IDE SKU was only installed, which has the appearance &ndash; but far fewer files &ndash; than Visual Studio editions from Developer Division. <\/p>\n<p>In response to such confusion, I created the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/pages\/pab.aspx\">Patch Applicability Browser<\/a>. You can download and install this tool to not only determine to which products a patch applies, but which of those products are actually installed on your machine. You&#8217;ll find that many Visual Studio patches don&#8217;t target the IDE SKU, which is installed with the SQL Server 2005 client. <\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt this tool will be handy for diagnosing any issues found with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/2006\/09\/26\/772513.aspx\">Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m pleased to announce that Sara has helped me post a useful tool I wrote to help eliminate confusion to which products a patch applies and which of those products are installed on your system. There has been quite a bit of confusion because there are a lot of Visual Studio editions, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,50],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-installation","tag-vs2005sp1"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today I&#8217;m pleased to announce that Sara has helped me post a useful tool I wrote to help eliminate confusion to which products a patch applies and which of those products are installed on your system. There has been quite a bit of confusion because there are a lot of Visual Studio editions, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}