I just spent some time debugging a customer's machine. When trying to install the .NET Framework, the install hangs because the IIS service can't stop when the asp.net files are being installed. IIS is failing to stop because it can't stop it's dependent...

Looks like we have a bug in setup that causes setup to fail if you have a USB key on the machine. VS setup is trying to read it as a hard drive and fails during disk size checking. To workaround this, please unplug your USB key from your machine...

Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server has been released! After a few years of putting together a vision for a complete development environment to include bug tracking databases, source control, and a gambit of server tools and applications, it...

It's been a while since I posted. Hopefully most folks have been able to install VS 2005 painlessly :) In the last few weeks, I've encountered a few weird issues where the windows installer would return odd errors. Turns out most of these errors are...