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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 | 2 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 | 1 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 | 9 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 | 3 Comments
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:33 PM

How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is comprised of multiple packages, including executables, installer packages, and patches. Compare this with Visual Studio 2005 SP1 which was a single patch wrapped in an executable. A lot of updates were made to both
Posted by Heath Stewart | 12 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 | 12 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 | 9 Comments
Attachment(s): Collect.exe
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
Friday, March 07, 2008 12:05 AM

Installing Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Tools for Visual Studio 2008

While attempting to install Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 , you may get a prompt for source that looks like the following screenshot. This problem commonly occurs if you have not installed one or more of the features Visual
Posted by Heath Stewart | 3 Comments
Monday, February 18, 2008 1:40 PM

Adding New Components to Existing Features Installs the Feature Tree

As Developer Division starts to ship patches for the Visual Studio 2008 , some users are being prompted for installation source media. This is a resulting of Windows Installer needing the original source files if, for example, files are missing from disk
Posted by Heath Stewart | 6 Comments
Attachment(s): Example.zip
Friday, December 14, 2007 6:29 PM

How to Workaround Error 1330 During Visual Studio 2008 Installation

When installing Visual Studio 2008, you might run into an error dialog that reads, Error 1330.A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file D:\msdn\cab2.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file
Posted by Heath Stewart | 22 Comments
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:42 PM

Help Shape the Future of Visual Studio Deployment

Do you want to help shape the future of deployment for Visual Studio code name "Dev10"? Aaron Ruckman in our Deployment Technologies Group is asking for feedback about what experiences you'd like for the future of Visual Studio.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Monday, November 26, 2007 3:36 PM

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1, and How to Detect It

No doubt you've heard the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 was released . Aaron Stebner has posted a list of links to 3.5, as well as 2.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and 3.0 SP1. It's important to note that if you install 3.5 you're actually getting 2.0 SP1 and
Posted by Heath Stewart | 23 Comments
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, October 18, 2007 12:15 PM

Progress for New Patches

You asked. We answered. One source of problems for Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 was that VS 2005 SP1 targeted multiple products, and if you had multiple target products installed - most commonly Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 that uses our
Posted by Heath Stewart | 3 Comments
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