Visual Studio Setup

Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products

December 2010 - Visual Studio Setup

Providing feedback on Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta installation

December 8, 2010 Dec 8, 2010 12/8/10
Heath Stewart
By installing Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta now (or tomorrow for general availability), you have a great opportunity to provide early feedback before we ship VS2010 SP1 RTM. Not only do we welcome feedback on the updates to the product such as the new Help Viewer, performance regressions, and more; but we also want to hear your feedback on the ...

Announcing Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta

December 7, 2010 Dec 7, 2010 12/7/10
Heath Stewart
If you haven’t seen from Soma’s or Jason’s blog, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta is available today for MSDN Subscribers and will be available on Thursday for the general public. This service pack contains a lot of performance improvements and a new Help Viewer based on strong customer feedback. You can find out about more ...

Delete shadow copies to compact VHDs and AVHDs

December 7, 2010 Dec 7, 2010 12/7/10
Heath Stewart
For a few years my primary development machine has actually been a VM with source located on a physical hard drive attached to the VM. This helps reduce latency compared to a differencing disk (AVHD) which may need to expand to accommodate additional data (common when building). It’s also easier to maintain than multiple boot entries ...