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Monday, October 06, 2008 3:57 PM

Adding features to Visual Studio 2008 may fail to load setup components

When attempting to add features to Visual Studio 2008 after it has already been installed, you may see an error that reports, A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup. Workaround You can choose to either remove
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:14 AM

Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

If you need to repair Visual Studio 2008 once SP1 has been applied or wish to change which features are installed, you cannot run setup.exe from the original installation media. When you run repair from media you may see an error like, "A problem has
Posted by Heath Stewart | 14 Comments
Saturday, August 16, 2008 7:52 AM

VS 2008 SP1 fails to install because of missing packages from the cache

Some customers are reporting that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is failing to install with the following error in the HTML log you can view from the error dialog. Patch (C:\Users\heaths\AppData\Local\TEMP\WebDesignerCore_KB950278.msp) install failed
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Friday, August 15, 2008 3:05 PM

Setup.bin is probably not a Trojan horse

Some virus scanning application have been reporting that setup.bin is a Trojan horse containing one of the following viruses: Win32:Trojan-gen Win32:Trojan-gen {Other} Backdoor.Win32.VB.ffx This file is typically installed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:51 AM

ISA Proxy Client may be required to download VS 2008 SP1

If you're on a network that uses Microsoft ISA Server or another proxy server, you may have problems downloading Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 . The error dialog displays the following. The installation failed with the follow message: Fatal error
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2008 12:48 PM

VS 2008 SP1 Beta must be removed prior to installing the release of VS 2008 SP1

When I announced that Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM will install over SP1 beta , we were on track to make that reality. However, when SP1 beta shipped we found that adding new components into existing features was causing a prompt for source for non-default
Posted by Heath Stewart | 35 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2008 10:53 AM

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Released

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, and Team Foundation Server 2008 Service Pack 1 have been released . This is a big release on the heals of SQL Server 2008 which has a dependency on .and includes NET Framework
Posted by Heath Stewart | 14 Comments
Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:20 PM

Why Windows Installer May Require so much Disk Space

Windows Installer is an engine for performing transactional installations. When installing a product for the fist time, most often few or no files to be installed are already present on the machine. But when upgrading or patching a product, most often
Posted by Heath Stewart | 8 Comments
Monday, July 07, 2008 4:43 PM

Enable BITS Logging

Enable BITS logging for diagnostic information about download failures using BITS.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/attachment/8704350.ashx
Friday, May 16, 2008 2:02 PM

KB944899 Should be Removed before Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Before installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 , you should first uninstall KB944899 , a hotfix which improves performance when stepping through source downloaded from a source server. If KB944899 is not removed prior to Visual Studio 2008 SP1, sometime
Posted by Heath Stewart | 14 Comments
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:08 PM

The Release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will Install over SP1 Beta

One of many improvements made to Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is that VS 2008 SP1 Beta customers will not need to uninstall SP1 Beta before installing the release of SP1. The same is true for Visual Studio 2008 Express products and .NET 3.5 SP1 -
Posted by Heath Stewart | 4 Comments
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:33 PM

How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is comprised of multiple packages, including executables, installer packages, and patches. Compare this with Visual Studio 2005 SP1 which was a single patch wrapped in an executable. A lot of updates were made to both
Posted by Heath Stewart | 16 Comments
Monday, May 12, 2008 10:53 AM

Changes for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Beta) has been released to web , along with Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (Beta). Included as part of .NET 3.5 SP1 are Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 (Beta) and Microsoft .NET Framework
Posted by Heath Stewart | 14 Comments
Friday, May 09, 2008 9:41 PM

Visual Studio and .NET Log Collection Utility

How to obtain and use the Visual Studio and .NET Framework log collection utility, and how to provide logs and feedback.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 14 Comments
Attachment(s): Collect.exe
Sunday, April 06, 2008 11:46 PM

Functional Testing of Cmdlets

While developing unit and functional tests for Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions , I needed a way to invoke cmdlets without requiring elevation on Vista. That is, of course, because running elevated has always been a bad idea unless it is required.
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
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