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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 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
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, 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
Tuesday, June 03, 2008 3:58 PM

Windows Installer 4.5 is Now Available

Windows Installer 4.5 is now available on the download center for a variety of platforms, including Windows XP SP2 and newer, Server 2003 SP1 and newer, and both Vista and Server 2008 RTM and newer. The Windows Installer 4.5 SDK is also available as a
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:02 PM

Windows Installer 4.5 Beta 2 Available

The Windows Installer team released Windows Installer 4.5 Beta 2 recently. While not a lot has visibly changed since the first beta for which I provided an overview , it's important to note that a new column was added to the CustomAction table since changes
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 1:50 PM

Fixes in Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and 3.0 SP1

A reader pointed out that the list of fixes for .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 were published. I also see from the .NET Framework 3.5 download page that the list of fixes for .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 were also published. Both are listed below.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:07 AM

How to Install TFC without PPE

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , now available for MSDN subscribers and Express editions freely available to everyone , is a huge application. It takes a while to install and, in the case of Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 , a long time to patch. Installing
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:40 PM

Detection Logic fixed for KB937061 (MS07-052)

Customers have been offered KB937061 for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 from Microsoft Update when they have already installed it. The Microsoft Security Response Center blog has more information about the problem and what they have done to fix it.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 28 Comments
Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:14 AM

Windows Installer 4.5 Beta Available

Windows Installer 4.5 Beta is now available to those signed up through Connect . Along with the whitepapers posted earlier, binaries for x86, x64, and IA64; headers; and libraries are all available. Expect to see more technical details on individual Windows
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:09 PM

Performance Issue to be Addressed in .NET 3.5

Current .NET Framework patches may not NGEN some assemblies as was recently discovered for KB928365 . We have worked out a solution and Surupa Biswas, a PM on the CLR team, wanted me to pass along the following information. As indicated in this post ,
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Friday, July 13, 2007 4:47 PM

KB928365 for MS07-040 Leaves Some Managed Applications Sluggish

After installing Security Update KB928365 for the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to fix MS07-040 , some users are noticing some managed applications - especially those developed using the Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) - are running sluggish. The
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Saturday, June 16, 2007 10:54 AM

Windows Live Writer Plugin for MSDN URLs

I have posted a Windows Live Writer plugin I wrote to aide posting URLs to MSDN, simply named Paste MSDN URL . It removes, if present, the culture in the URL so that when a reader clicks the link he or she sees the content on MSDN in their preferred language
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:53 AM

Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions 1.0 Beta Released

I have released Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions 1.0 beta , complete with an installer package. I have also added a couple of cmdlets, and format and type configurations for a good out-of-the-box experience when using the cmdlets Get-MSIProductInfo
Posted by Heath Stewart | 7 Comments
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