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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
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:51 PM

Booting Windows to a Differencing Virtual Hard Disk

Testing software can be fun and rewarding. You get to see new, upcoming features and provide valuable feedback to the developer. But as with most pre-release software, we recommend that you don’t install it on production machines. You could dedicate extra
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Friday, May 29, 2009 5:52 PM

How to workaround the issue when opening Office applications repairs Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 customers have been reporting that when they start Outlook or any of the Office applications, VS2010 is repaired. This issue can also happen for VS2005 and VS2008, and for any products using Visual Basic for Applications
Posted by Heath Stewart | 23 Comments
Attachment(s): Filter.zip
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, 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
Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:10 PM

Another Possible Workaround for Error 1330

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:\cab1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is
Posted by Heath Stewart | 7 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
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
Monday, October 06, 2008 3:57 PM

Adding features to Visual Studio 2008 may fail to load setup components

When attempting to add features to Visual Studio 2008 after it has already been installed, you may see an error that reports, A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup. Fix Updated: a hotfix has been uploaded to
Posted by Heath Stewart | 4 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
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