Quan To's Visual Studio Extensibility blog

Windows Vista Beta 1 will be out this week. Note, the framework version in Windows Vista is the Beta 2 framework. That means only the Beta 2 Visual Studio will install correctly on it. If you try installing a later CTP, the framework version mismatch...

This was by bad design on our part. The VS 2005 Beta 2 media was shipped on DVDs. SQL was also on DVDs but Team Foundation was on a CD. Since we didn't label the media correctly, we saw a lot of bugs that the media doesn't work on our customer's...

I was just going through the setup newsgroups and noticed some questions about 1618 failures. A 1618 failure occurs when another setup package using the windows installer is running. Since the Windows Installer supports only one set up running at any...

When installations fail, the first thing to do is to check the setup logs. The logs provide an insight as to what happened. Most of the logs are in your %temp% folder. The logs will look like: dd_netfx* dd_vsinstall80* The SQL logs are...

Every once in a while, we see failures from customers trying to deploy VS 2005 due to incorrect operating systems. The .NET Framework is supported from Windows 98 and up. Visual Studio itself requires Windows 2000 SP4 and up. Here's the list of...

Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 July CTP and Visual Studio Team Foundation 2005 July CTP were released yesterday on MSDN. For those with an MSDN subscription, please try it out and let us know if you have any comments, suggestions, or find any bugs. ...

The Visual Studio 2005 July CTP is now available on MSDN ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/ ). This currently contains Pro, VSS, and VSTO. The VSTS ,VSTF, and VS SDK images will be availabe on July 20th. If you have an MSDN subscription...

We've seen a couple of issues in the last few weeks where customers are seeing a 1601 failure during the Visual Studio install. The windows installer error code list shows this problem as: The Windows Installer service could not be accessed. Contact...

During the installation of VS 2005, we chain in the Device Emulator which is used for developing Windows CE applications. The Device Emulator installs a network driver which may disconnect your machine from the network. Amit Chopra, my counter part...

I grew up in the great white north and miss the red and white celebrations :) Today also marks the 130th day before we release Visual Studio 2005 to the world.

For many folks, VS Beta 1 just expired. If you still have Beta 1 on your machine, uninstall it and take Beta 2 for a spin. To make clean up easy, use the Beta 1 clean up tool at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=47065

The VS 2005 June CTP does not have a corresponding SQL Server 2005 CTP. The SQL Server 2005 June CTP is based on the VS 2005 Beta 2 bits so if you want to use VS and SQL Server, please use this combination. I've seen a few questions about this on...

When installing the Framework SDK separately outside of installing Visual Studio, we found a bug with our feature tree logic. Repro: 1) Launch the Framework SDK installer 2) In the options page, select the middle option and uncheck the other...

This was a pretty interesting bug we found in IExpress (the technology we use to package up some of our setups). IExpress is used to package up the .NET Framework, the SDK, Remote Debugger, J# Redist, and the Document Explorer. During the installation...