Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta Now Available

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 installation tips...

Rexiology... — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:30:16 GMT

crosspost from http://rextang.net/blogs/work/ So during the new year holidays, it's a good time to take

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 installation tips...

Rexiology::Work — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:27:39 GMT

So during the new year holidays, it's a good time to take some care of current software installations,...

Mitigating Custom Action Problems for Patches on Vista

Heath Stewart's Blog — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:38:45 GMT

Because some of the custom actions in Visual Studio 2005 are authored to impersonate the non-privileged

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta Now Available

Heath Stewart — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:28:06 GMT

Bill, we are considering a fix that requires that the patch executable require elevation on Vista. The product requires elevation, but since Sustained Engineering policies in Microsoft require a name for a product or patch like VS80sp1-KB918525-X86-Beta-ENU.exe, Vista doesn't automatically elevate like it would for setup.exe or install.exe. See http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/06/23/644545.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/09/26/Custom-Actions-under-UAC-in-Vista.aspx for more information.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta Now Available

Bill Burrows — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:48:44 GMT

Hi Heath, What are the chances of getting the installer to somehow notify the user if the setup program was NOT started as Admin? Now the installer just stops with not indication of why if it is run as a normal user. bill

Custom Actions under UAC in Vista

Heath Stewart's Blog — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:08:16 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 works for the most part on Windows Vista, but there are some known issues being addressed

Introducing the Patch Applicability Browser

Heath Stewart's Blog — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:42:32 GMT

Today I'm pleased to announce that Sara has helped me post a useful tool I wrote to help eliminate confusion

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta Now Available

Norman Diamond — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:38:04 GMT

> if you're going to install Visual Studio 2005
> SP1 on Vista you should do so as the actual
> Administrator

Does that mean booting to safe mode?

> may not get fixed if we don't know about them

They may not get fixed if you do know about them too. Your colleagues have pretty much proven that time spent submitting bug reports about either Visual Studio or Vista is time wasted. Though I still let the crash dump sender send its dumps.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Beta Now Available

Heath Stewart — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:40:21 GMT

Matt, please be sure to file bugs against broken functionality like that or they may not get fixed if we don't know about them.

Custom Actions under UAC in Vista

Heath Stewart's Blog — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:33:31 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 works for the most part on Windows Vista, but there are some known issues being addressed...