Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

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Updated log collection utility available for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1

May 22, 2009 May 22, 2009 05/22/09
Heath Stewart
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 a good collection of direct links.While we have worked hard to reduce install times and ...

Microsoft VS/.NET Log Collection Tool

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09
Heath Stewart
Using the Collect Utility If you encounter any setup issues, we will need all relevant logs. Please follow the instructions below to collect all those logs. Reporting Setup Errors There are several options for reporting setup errors, but you might consider first checking to see if the issue is a known issue. This will save you time and ...

Patch Applicability

April 13, 2009 Apr 13, 2009 04/13/09
Heath Stewart
When installing a patch package, Windows Installer first determines if the patch is applicable. Depending on how the patch is installed, this happens a little differently. Windows Installer can determine the list of applicable products, or it can be told to which products the patch should be applied.Possible productsTo have Windows Installer ...

Changes to Package Caching in Windows Installer 5.0

February 2, 2009 Feb 2, 2009 02/2/09
Heath Stewart
Windows Installer 5.0 is shipping in Windows 7 as part of the operating system. To address the issue where the User Account Control consent dialog is displayed with an “Unidentified Publisher”, the .msi package is cached in its entirety.Prior to Windows Installer 5.0, installation packages, or .msi files, were stripped of their ...

Unadvertise Features

January 27, 2009 Jan 27, 2009 01/27/09
Heath Stewart
The attached Windows Script file allows you to unadvertise features in a Windows Installer product by specifying either a ProductCode or the path to an MSP. If any features are advertised - whether incidental or intentional - the product will be reinstalled and those features added locally to your computer. Usage Only one of /Patch or /...

Dictionary of Windows Installer Tokens

January 16, 2009 Jan 16, 2009 01/16/09
Heath Stewart
If you are writing emails and specifications about Windows Installer all day, chances are your document or mail editor has plenty of squiggly red lines highlighting your presumed spelling errors like MsiPatchSequence. To not miss any actual spelling errors, I find myself double-checking and adding lots of Windows Installer terms to my custom ...