My team owns the installation experience for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. One difficulty in the setup and deployment space is that the real world is a lot more complicated and messy than we can re-create in the test lab. That is where...

I have seen quite a few reports of the VS 2008 installation not being able to copy a specific file. This almost always means that there is a corruption on the media or in the ISO. The first trouble shooting step I take is to XCOPY the contents of the...

The setup for VS Orcas and the .NET Framework 3.5 has a list of pre-release installations that must be removed before installing. When you uninstall beta1 or a CTP, it should removed the components that would block; however in some cases you had more...

Most developers have heard that Visual Studio and the .NET Framework released Beta2 of Orcas at the end of July. However, I have seen a few questions on how to get help or report issues. "Help! I can't figure out this bug or VS won't install!" ...