This isn't technically a setup issue but we're working on the next wave of development tools and are interested in finding out how customers deploy the .Net Framework and their applications. This information will help us plan out our features for Orcas...

I joined the VS Setup team over1.5 years ago. The first project I worked on was to help reduce the number of reboots for the .NET Framework. We concentrated on reboots caused by mscoree.dll being in use which the CLR team agreed that a pending file rename...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog about regtlb errors with a workaround. To summarize, when installing the .NET Framework, we have roughly 10 TLB files we register through oleaut. When registering those files, the registry is locked and the...

The August CTP for Visual Studio Express SKUs are now available at: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/default.aspx#express This is the last Express CTP before we release the final bits in November so try them out and send us any feedback...

A customer emailed me yesterday and was confused with which CTPs for VS matched with which CTPs for SQL. One of our Release PMs (Jason) has kindly created a website to help sort out the madness. This also includes compatible builds with Avalon and...

Today marks 60 days left till we sign off on Visual Studio 2005 (RTM = Release to Manufacturing). From the setup perspective, we're looking pretty good. We have 15 open setup bugs right now and we're on track to shutdown in mid October for a Nov 7th...

Looking at our watson data, we have several customers who encountered a generic "setup failed" message when installing the .Net Framework. When we look at the installation logs, regtlbv12.exe is failing. Regtlbv12.exe simply registers tlb files. It...

We received several bugs and I saw a bunch of newsgroup posts about this one. Due to a performance bug in longhorn in the OS file system, CreateProcess is failing intermittently. Normally, you'll see MSXML6 or one of the optional components fail during...