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How Visual Studio 2012 Avoids Prompts for Source

July 26, 2012 Jul 26, 2012 07/26/12
Heath Stewart
Requiring source packages during installation, repairs, and even uninstall are common occurrences for some customers. The core issue is that Windows Installer needs the source location of the package and its files to install - and can't find them automatically - when attempting to restore the machine to the state it should be in (according to ...

July 2012 Update for Visual Studio 2012 RC

July 6, 2012 Jul 6, 2012 07/6/12
Heath Stewart
A few months ago we introduced a new method of delivering updates to Visual Studio 2012. Today we published updates in the same manner for Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidates.You can download the July 2012 update (KB2703187) for VS2012 RC from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=257044. More information about this update is available at ...

How to fix “Invalid License Data” after upgrading from Visual Studio 2012 Beta to RC

June 4, 2012 Jun 4, 2012 06/4/12
Heath Stewart
(image) A few customers have reported the following error after upgrading from VS2012 Beta to the Release Candidate (RC): Invalid License Data Reinstall is required. Aaron Marten on the Visual Studio Extensibility team has a post describing how to fix this issue. This should only happen if you upgrade a “higher” Beta edition to a...

Announcing Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12
Heath Stewart
(image) Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate (RC) – formerly known as Visual Studio 11 – is now available for download! Jason Zander’s blog has a lot of great information on all the exciting changes we have made, including improvements to setup. I encourage you to download and give VS2012 RC a try. Should you find ...