Deployment Technology Group Blog

The InstallShield 2010 Limited Edition is a free version of InstallShield for Visual Studio developers that replaces the functionality provided by the Visual Studio setup and deployment projects. Here are some highlights of the product: • Use...

Where to get Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Where to download the .NET Framework 2.0 redistributable and SDK Where to download the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions Uninstalling previous beta versions of Visual Studio 2005...

You can use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Uninstall Utility to remove/clean up all the products installed with Visual Studio 2010 RTM (English) from your computer. Check out the link http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2010uninstall for instructions on how...

Our team produces the installation program for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. We will be regularly posting here to gather feedback on the experience you have with these products as well as to provide tips/pointers on deploying the .NET Framework...

Hi all, If you are experiencing any issues installing Visual Studio 2010 or .Net Framework 4, please use the Collect tool to gather your setup logs and send us a link to the generated cab file for us to investigate. Thanks!

If launching VS2008 Maintenance Mode is showing the following error dialog “A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Cancelling setup” please check out this article written by Heath (DTG team member) http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths...

.NET Framework 3.5 Beta2 is available for download from MSDN. You can acquire it by going to the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d2f74873-c796-4e60-91c8-f0ef809b09ee&displaylang=en Additionally, Daniel...

If you are installing or repairing Visual Studio from ISO file, the tool you are using to mount the image may not automatically mount it again after a reboot, if this is the case setup won’t be able to find its files and will prompt for them or fail....

We are proud to annouce that Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 have RTMd! Available links: VS Ultimate, Premium or Professional RTM versions: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/download Express editions: http://www.microsoft...

We've seen some people reporting issues on VS2010 RC setup UI disappearing or giving an error after clicking Next on Welcome page or Options page. If you are experiencing this issue, please check out http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/setupprerelease...

Some people have asked me and I've also seen this question in the MSDN installation forums ( Visual Studio 2010 Install and Setup ): Q: What's the setup experience if I have a pre-release version of VS on my machine and I'd like to upgrade to the newest...

Hi everyone! Visual Studio 2010 RC and .Net Framework 4 RC have been released this week!!! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx Here are the direct links you need to get any of the Visual Studio 2010 RC editions: Visual Studio...