Software & Services - Bret Grinslade

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!" ...