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Fast acquisition of vswhere

March 5, 2017 Mar 5, 2017 03/5/17
Heath Stewart
I introduced vswhere last week as an easy means to locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer, along with other products installed with our new installer that provides faster downloads and installs - even for full installs (which has roughly doubled in size with lots of new third-party content). vswhere was designed to be a fast, small, single-file ...

vswhere Available

February 25, 2017 Feb 25, 2017 02/25/17
Heath Stewart
After feedback on the VSSetup PowerShell module to query Visual Studio 2017 and related products, I'm pleased to say that a native, single-file executable is available on GitHub: vswhere. The VSSetup PowerShell module is also available on GitHub and provides a number of benefits for PowerShell scripts, but build tools and CMake and deployment ...

Visual Studio Setup PowerShell Module Available

January 25, 2017 Jan 25, 2017 01/25/17
Heath Stewart
To make the new setup configuration APIs more accessible to developers, we have published the "VSSetup" PowerShell module on powershellgallery.com, making it quick and easy to install. If you have Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 or newer - installed with Windows 10 - or PowerShellGet for PowerShell 3.0 or 4.0, you can run the following...

Changes to Visual Studio “15” Setup

September 15, 2016 Sep 15, 2016 09/15/16
Heath Stewart
We've listened to feedback over the years, and while each new release brought changes to the setup experience of Visual Studio and related products, none have been more significant than what we're doing for Visual Studio "15". New setup engine With Visual Studio supporting so many platforms and toolkits, one of the goals for Visual Studio "15...

Visual Studio 2013 continuously repairs producing many small log files

April 20, 2015 Apr 20, 2015 04/20/15
Heath Stewart
If you have Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate editions installed and are finding many small MSI*.log files in your %TEMP% directory, you may find you are running low on disk space because of how many of these files are created. While they may only be about 3MB, what causes these files to be produced can do so ...

Detection keys for Visual Studio 2015

April 13, 2015 Apr 13, 2015 04/13/15
Heath Stewart
Administrators and developers who need to detect whether Visual Studio 2015 is installed can use similar registry keys as with past releases. This time around, though, we’ve made some changes to the lineup of products but the registry scheme remains the same. Most of the detection keys are found in the 32-bit registry hive – the ones you...

Workaround for when Visual Studio Update says it doesn’t apply

September 12, 2014 Sep 12, 2014 09/12/14
Heath Stewart
I previously blogged about a problem some customers were running into that prevented Visual Studio Update from installing. You might see a dialog like the one to the right and an error message that read something like, Update 2 does not apply, or is blocked by another condition on your computer. At least for many people, they had an ...