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Monday, September 17, 2007 5:54 PM

Possible problem launching Visual Studio 2008 setup within a Parallels 3.0 virtual image on a Mac

I heard of an interesting issue from a customer today via the email contact form on my blog, and I wanted to post it here in case anyone else runs into a similar issue. They saw a problem when launching Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 setup on a virtual Windows
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Monday, August 27, 2007 6:39 PM

Report VS 2008 or .NET Framework 3.5 beta installation issues directly to the setup team

I just noticed this post on Bret Grinslade's blog that I wanted to link to here to help raise visibility. In that post, Bret describes how to gather more information about any installation failures that you might encounter while installing a beta version
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Friday, August 24, 2007 2:49 PM

Possible causes of Windows Vista hotfix install failures

The .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 includes updates for the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0. Since the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 are installed as OS components on Windows Vista, the updates are delivered as Windows Vista hotfix packages. We have seen some issues
Posted by astebner | 7 Comments
Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:13 AM

Japanese .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 and VS 2008 beta 2 now available

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released the beta 2 versions of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, and I posted all of the download links here . This week, Japanese versions of beta 2 have also been released for web download. Here are the
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:42 PM

Workarounds for some .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 install issues we have seen so far

Since the release of the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 a couple of weeks ago, we have run into a few installation issues that I wanted to let folks know about. The good news is that all of these issues will be fixed in time for the final release of the .NET
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 12:40 PM

Possible issue using ASP.NET controls in VS 2008 beta 2

Description of this issue Since Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 were released, we have heard of a few issues related to using ASP.NET controls in the VS IDE after installing beta 2. The issues we have seen so far include the
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Friday, August 03, 2007 12:56 PM

Make sure to uninstall VS Orcas beta 1 before installing beta 2

Before installing Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 or the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2, it is necessary to remove previous beta versions of VS 2008. In most cases, when running beta 2 setup on a system that has an earlier beta still installed, setup will block
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:21 PM

What to do if VS 2008 or .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 asks for Windows XP SP2 on Windows Vista

I previously posted a description of a bug in VS 2008 beta 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 beta 1 setup that can cause setup to prompt you to install Windows XP SP2 when running setup on Windows Vista. That post includes a couple of workarounds that can be used
Posted by astebner | 8 Comments
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:28 AM

Tool to automatically collect and cab VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 setup log files

I wrote a post yesterday with a list of the names and locations of all of the log files produced during Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 setup. As you can see in that post, the list of possible log files is very long, and that makes it annoying
Posted by astebner | 17 Comments
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:33 PM

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 setup log files

The installers for the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 chain several different prerequisites and optional components behind the scenes. If one of these setups fails, there are numerous possible causes due to the number of packages being chained
Posted by astebner | 39 Comments
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:36 PM

Possible cause of Windows - No Disk error during VS 2008 beta 2 setup

We have seen a few cases where running Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 setup will cause an error dialog to appear when the setup UI initializes. The dialog has the title Windows - No Disk and has Cancel, Try Again and Continue buttons, and looks something like
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Monday, July 30, 2007 12:01 PM

VS 2008 beta 2 install failure caused by previous beta version of Microsoft Web Designer Tools

Because of the large volume of beta uninstall issues that were seen during the Visual Studio 2005 project, the beta versions of Visual Studio 2008 will automatically chain uninstall of other beta packages that it installs as prerequisites or optional
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:12 PM

CTP of peer-assisted download manager that can be used for Visual Studio 2008 beta 2

I previously posted a set of links to download various editions of Visual Studio 2008 beta 2. Most of those links point to very large DVD images that can be problematic to download due to their large sizes. There is a community technology preview (CTP)
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:56 PM

.NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 and Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 now available

As announced earlier today in this post on Soma's blog, beta 2 of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code named Orcas) were released for download today. You can check out this MSDN page for more information, and also check out this
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:15 PM

Web Designer Tools can fail to install during VS Orcas beta 1 setup on 64-bit Windows

When Visual Studio Codename Orcas beta 1 was initially released back in April, I posted this item about a possible failure during the installation of the Microsoft Web Designer Tools prerequisite component. That failure was caused by a leftover beta version
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
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