Quan To's Visual Studio Extensibility blog

There's a tool called msiinv.exe which will list out all the products installed on your machine that was installed using the windows installer. Huy (one of our Setup testers) has it available at: http://www.huydao.net/setup/msiinv.zip If you...

Just saw a question on the newsgroups about turning on MSI verbose logging. For those interested, set this registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer] "Debug"=dword:00000007 "Logging"="voicewarmup"

We have another blogger from the VS Setup team :) Our QA lead Pete Giffin just launched his: http://blogs.msdn.com/pgiffin I think its empty right now but Pete promised to put something there by the end of the day :)

I've seen a few failures with MSXML6 on machines with Beta 1 bits on it which weren't fully cleaned up. If you run into this, first, try using the Beta Clean up tool at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=47065 If you're still encountering...

We have a nasty bug which prevents customers from Installing Visual Studio 2005 on a Windows XP 64 bit machine. This has been fixed recently but didn't make it in for our June CTP. If you're trying to install on an XP 64 bit machine, the work around...

David Notario (one of our developers on the CLR team) has a great explanation of this at: http://blogs.msdn.com/davidnotario/archive/2005/04/27/412838.aspx On the setup side, we NGEN several assemblies in the Framework and in VS. NGEN has three...

Two excellent Setup blogs for more info if you don't see it on my blog: Aaron Stebner's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner Hong Gao's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/hgao -Q

Welcome to my blog! A little intro... I'm a Program Manager in the Visual Studio Setup team. I'm curently responsible for making sure our Setup experience in Visual Studio 2005 is as seamless as possible. There are definately a lot of issues...