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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
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): collect.exe
Monday, February 02, 2009 1:02 PM

Feature Changes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 may prompt for SQLSysClrTypes.msi

After installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 , adding or removing features from Visual Studio may prompt for the file SQLSysClrTypes.msi with the following text: Setup is looking for file SQLSysClrTypes.msi. Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio
Posted by Heath Stewart | 5 Comments
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:34 PM

Repairing Products after Patches Advertised Features

Windows Installer supports advertising features to enable users to later install those features on demand. But Windows Installer may advertise features in when a component is removed from a feature through obsolescence or supersedence . This will leave
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:33 PM

Unadvertise Features

A Windows Script file to repair Windows Installer products by unadvertising their features.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): Unadvertise.zip
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 5:06 PM

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 may complain that another patch is installed even after removing it

If Visual Studio 2008 SP1 prompts you to run the Microsoft Visual Studio Patch removal tool , it means that a patch or product is installed that would cause issues when installing VS2008 SP1. The dialog is shown below. If you run the the patch removal
Posted by Heath Stewart | 6 Comments
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:14 AM

Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

If you need to repair Visual Studio 2008 once SP1 has been applied or wish to change which features are installed, you cannot run setup.exe from the original installation media. When you run repair from media you may see an error like, "A problem has
Posted by Heath Stewart | 18 Comments
Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:52 AM

VS 2008 SP1 fails to install because of missing packages from the cache

Some customers are reporting that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is failing to install with the following error in the HTML log you can view from the error dialog. Patch (C:\Users\heaths\AppData\Local\TEMP\WebDesignerCore_KB950278.msp) install failed
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Friday, August 15, 2008 3:05 PM

Setup.bin is probably not a Trojan horse

Some virus scanning application have been reporting that setup.bin is a Trojan horse containing one of the following viruses: Win32:Trojan-gen Win32:Trojan-gen {Other} Backdoor.Win32.VB.ffx This file is typically installed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
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 12:48 PM

VS 2008 SP1 Beta must be removed prior to installing the release of VS 2008 SP1

When I announced that Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM will install over SP1 beta , we were on track to make that reality. However, when SP1 beta shipped we found that adding new components into existing features was causing a prompt for source for non-default
Posted by Heath Stewart | 41 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
Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:20 PM

Why Windows Installer May Require so much Disk Space

Windows Installer is an engine for performing transactional installations. When installing a product for the fist time, most often few or no files to be installed are already present on the machine. But when upgrading or patching a product, most often
Posted by Heath Stewart | 10 Comments
Monday, July 07, 2008 4:43 PM

Enable BITS Logging

Enable BITS logging for diagnostic information about download failures using BITS.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/attachment/8704350.ashx
Friday, May 16, 2008 2:02 PM

KB944899 Should be Removed before Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Before installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 , you should first uninstall KB944899 , a hotfix which improves performance when stepping through source downloaded from a source server. If KB944899 is not removed prior to Visual Studio 2008 SP1, sometime
Posted by Heath Stewart | 15 Comments
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