{"id":303,"date":"2012-04-06T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T13:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2012\/04\/06\/visual-studio-11-beta-updates\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:29:34","slug":"visual-studio-11-beta-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/visual-studio-11-beta-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 11 Beta Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudio\/archive\/2012\/04\/06\/improving-how-we-update-visual-studio.aspx\">announced<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>When the notification balloon is clicked, Extension Manager will open to a new node: Product Updates. Clicking the <strong>Update<\/strong> button will download the update so you can run it.<\/p>\n<p>The update is also <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=246569\">available<\/a> on the Download Center and you can read more about what&rsquo;s included for the Beta Update in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2677574\">KB2677574<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;d love to hear your feedback on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudio\/archive\/2012\/04\/06\/improving-how-we-update-visual-studio.aspx\">Visual Studio blog post<\/a>, and should you have any problems installing it on Visual Studio 11 Beta (v11.0.50214.1) please download and run our <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/vscollect\">log collection utility<\/a> and visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/vssetup\/threads\">forum<\/a> or file a bug on <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\">Microsoft Connect<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today 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, Extension Manager will open to a new node: Product Updates. Clicking [&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":[20,27,45,48,59],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-installation","tag-news","tag-visual-studio","tag-vs11","tag-vsupdate"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today 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, Extension Manager will open to a new node: Product Updates. Clicking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/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=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}