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September 2005 - Posts

New VS Uninstall Tool available

Posted Sunday, September 25, 2005 11:10 PM by Quan
The VS Beta and CTP uninstall tool has been updated and is now available at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=47598 Please make sure you run this before installing any future version of Visual Studio 2005 (including the released version). Read More...
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Visual Studio RC fails on Vista Beta 1

Posted Sunday, September 25, 2005 11:07 PM by Quan
When trying to install the Release Candidate of Visual Studio (build 50727.26) on Windows Vista Beta 1, the installation will fail. The .NET Framework on Windows Vista Beta 1 does not match the .NET Framework packaged with The Visual Studio Release Candidate Read More...
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Do you read ReadMe files?

Posted Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:25 PM by Quan
My intern this summer spent a couple of weeks writing a cool readme generator which takes bugs written using a specific template and generates the readme and known issues document we will ship with Visual Studio 2005. Last week, I spent a few hours with Read More...
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Another Setup blogger

Posted Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:16 PM by Quan
Peter Marcu is one of our Setup devs on Visual Studio. He just launched his blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/pmarcu/ Peter is our first developer on VS Setup to start blogging. That puts us at 4 total on our team :) Other blogs from VS Setup folks: http://blogs.msdn.com/hgao Read More...
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Installing Express on a different drive

Posted Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:00 PM by Quan
We're currently in the middle of an install blitz at Microsoft. The VS Setup team is trying to get 1500 internal folks to install a recent build. We're aiming to validate our Setup works correctly and at the same time find any potential show stoppers. Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 Supported Operating Systems

Posted Saturday, September 10, 2005 11:58 PM by Quan
In case you were wondering, here's the list of supported operating systems you will be able to install Visual Studio 2005 on: Microsoft® Windows®° 2000 with SP4 Microsoft® Windows®°XP with SP2 Microsoft® Windows®°XP°Professional°x64°Edition°(WOW°only) Read More...
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PDC VS Beta 2 DVD install fails

Posted Saturday, September 10, 2005 11:14 PM by Quan
The company who ended up burning the PDC 2005 DVDs didn't realize the DVD Name on the media needs to be DVD1. The media table of the Visual Studio 2005 MSI requires the files to be on "DVD1" when installing from media. Since the label name is not DVD1, Read More...
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The 2.0 Framework and hard locked for write files

Posted Saturday, September 10, 2005 11:06 PM by Quan
As we get closer and closer to shipping Visual Studio 2005, we're making some tough decisions on what problems we can fix and what problems we'll punt and fix in Orcas. One such problem is when mscoree.dll is hard locked for write when you try installing Read More...
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Installing the v2.0 SDK, the 1.1 SDK and VS 2005

Posted Monday, September 05, 2005 8:55 PM by Quan
Recently, we just fixed a nasty vertical integration / application isolation bug. The problem occurs when you: install the 1.1 SDK (using default installation path) install the 2.0 SDK (using default installation path) install any VS 2005 product (installation Read More...
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