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Monday, October 19, 2009 4:01 PM

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Released

As announced on Soma’s blog this morning, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 have been released to MSDN Subscribers and will be available for everyone on Wednesday. Visual Studio 2010 boasts a great new user interface
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
Sunday, August 09, 2009 5:16 PM

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 should be removed before upgrading to Windows 7

If you have been beta testing Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 , we recommend you install a fresh copy of Windows 7 on your machine. Alternatively, you may also choose to uninstall Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 prior to upgrading to
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Friday, May 29, 2009 3:40 AM

Detecting Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

The Visual Studio 2008 RTM and SP1 detection keys are largely the same as the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 detection keys , and are documented below. But there is a caveat for released and upcoming versions: the shared detection value can be overwritten by
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
Friday, May 22, 2009 4:25 PM

Updated log collection utility available for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1

Last Monday we shipped Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 to MSDN customers, and made them publicly available Wednesday. More information about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 are available on MSDN , and Aaron Stebner has
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:12 PM

Microsoft VS/.NET Log Collection Tool

Use collect.exe to gather Visual Studio and .NET setup logs for help diagnosing installation and update issues.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): http://go.microsoft.com/?LinkId=8967043
Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:54 PM

Microsoft .NET 1.x and Visual Studio 7.x patches may fail to uninstall

When attempting to uninstall a patch from the products listed in the Applies To section below, the following error may occur. Internal Error 2771. M953297 The last part of the error message will vary with each patch, where the last 6 digits are the knowledge
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:29 PM

Windows Installer XML (WiX) v3 Beta Released

Since plans were made to ship WiX v3 in the box for Visual Studio 2010, the WiX working group has been working on fixing all outstanding bugs in the WiX v3 code base. Bob Arnson uploaded packages last week as a test on SourceForge and this week the following
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Monday, September 22, 2008 11:58 AM

Help Improve the .NET Framework Deployment Experience

My colleague Peter Marcu , who is leading the development effort on the new deployment experience for the .NET Framework, is seeking information from our developer customers how you deploy the .NET Framework for your applications. If you’re a developer
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:51 AM

ISA Proxy Client may be required to download VS 2008 SP1

If you're on a network that uses Microsoft ISA Server or another proxy server, you may have problems downloading Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . The error dialog displays the following. The installation failed with the follow message: Fatal error
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2008 10:53 AM

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, and Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1 have been released . This is a big release on the heals of SQL Server 2008 which has a dependency on .and includes NET Framework
Posted by Heath Stewart | 15 Comments
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:08 PM

The Release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will Install over SP1 Beta

One of many improvements made to Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is that VS 2008 SP1 Beta customers will not need to uninstall SP1 Beta before installing the release of SP1. The same is true for Visual Studio 2008 Express products and .NET 3.5 SP1 -
Posted by Heath Stewart | 5 Comments
Monday, May 12, 2008 10:53 AM

Changes for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Beta) has been released to web , along with Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (Beta). Included as part of .NET 3.5 SP1 are Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 (Beta) and Microsoft .NET Framework
Posted by Heath Stewart | 14 Comments
Friday, May 09, 2008 9:41 PM

Visual Studio and .NET Log Collection Utility

How to obtain and use the Visual Studio and .NET Framework log collection utility, and how to provide logs and feedback.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 14 Comments
Attachment(s): http://go.microsoft.com/?LinkId=8967043
Friday, April 18, 2008 3:25 PM

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 Fails to Install

A lot of customers have recently started seeing the following errors, all stating in various ways that Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 failed to install. You may also see this when attempting to install other updates on top of .NET 2.0 SP1.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 12 Comments
Attachment(s): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0BA6038C-061E-4B4A-9BE9-96A323701260
Sunday, April 06, 2008 11:46 PM

Functional Testing of Cmdlets

While developing unit and functional tests for Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions , I needed a way to invoke cmdlets without requiring elevation on Vista. That is, of course, because running elevated has always been a bad idea unless it is required.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
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