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Blog to discuss extensibility in Visual Studio

What's with all the different products?

For Visual Studio 2005, we have a lot more products offered than in 2003. The Team System line of...

Author: Quan Date: 11/08/2005

Express ISO CRCs

For those who are downloading the ISO images from MSDN, here are the CRCs in case you need them: VB...

Author: Quan Date: 11/07/2005

SQL Server Express does not work on VPC

For those installing on a VPCand getting a SQL Server Express failure, that particular scenario is...

Author: Quan Date: 11/07/2005

We're Live!

Download the VS Express Products now! :) https://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/

Author: Quan Date: 11/07/2005

Setup is unable to find DeleteTemp.exe

When installing Visual Studio 2005, a few customers are seeing an error where Setup is unable to...

Author: Quan Date: 11/04/2005

What's changed from Beta 2 to RTM?

Here's a complete doc on what changed between Beta 2 and the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005:...

Author: Quan Date: 10/31/2005

Adding SQL database to a project fails

After installing Visual Studio 2005, you may see the following error when trying to add a SQL...

Author: Quan Date: 10/28/2005

What's with .42?

In one of my previous blogs, I mentioned the final build number for Visual Studio 2005 was...

Author: Quan Date: 10/28/2005

Visual Studio 2005 Shipped!

It's official! For those with MSDN subscriptions, you can now download Visual Studio 2005! For those...

Author: Quan Date: 10/28/2005

Final RTM Build numbers

November 7th is still the street date for Visual Studio 2005. Our final build number is 8.0.50727.42...

Author: Quan Date: 10/26/2005

Error 1904 when installing the 1.0 Framework

A customer ran into the following error dialog when installing the 1.0 Framework: Error 1904 Module...

Author: Quan Date: 10/24/2005

Can't move cursor in VS 2005 text editor

A customer ran into this issue where they can't move the cursor in the text editor and other things...

Author: Quan Date: 10/20/2005

msvsmon fails during VS install

I just spent a few days with a customer who had issues uninstalling Beta 2 and then installing the...

Author: Quan Date: 10/19/2005

Package load failures with class designers when upgrading from VS 2005 Beta 2 to RC/RTM

Aaron wrote a great blog about this issue:...

Author: Quan Date: 10/16/2005

EM64T Machines

If you have an EM64T machine and have installed Visual Studio 2005 on it, please let me know. We...

Author: Quan Date: 10/06/2005

New VS Uninstall Tool available

The VS Beta and CTP uninstall tool has been updated and is now available at:...

Author: Quan Date: 09/26/2005

Visual Studio RC fails on Vista Beta 1

When trying to install the Release Candidate of Visual Studio (build 50727.26) on Windows Vista Beta...

Author: Quan Date: 09/26/2005

Do you read ReadMe files?

My intern this summer spent a couple of weeks writing a cool readme generator which takes bugs...

Author: Quan Date: 09/18/2005

Another Setup blogger

Peter Marcu is one of our Setup devs on Visual Studio. He just launched his blog at:...

Author: Quan Date: 09/18/2005

Installing Express on a different drive

We're currently in the middle of an install blitz at Microsoft. The VS Setup team is trying to get...

Author: Quan Date: 09/18/2005

Visual Studio 2005 Supported Operating Systems

In case you were wondering, here's the list of supported operating systems you will be able to...

Author: Quan Date: 09/11/2005

PDC VS Beta 2 DVD install fails

The company who ended up burning the PDC 2005 DVDs didn't realize the DVD Name on the media needs to...

Author: Quan Date: 09/11/2005

The 2.0 Framework and hard locked for write files

As we get closer and closer to shipping Visual Studio 2005, we're making some tough decisions on...

Author: Quan Date: 09/11/2005

Installing the v2.0 SDK, the 1.1 SDK and VS 2005

Recently, we just fixed a nasty vertical integration / application isolation bug. The problem occurs...

Author: Quan Date: 09/05/2005

Deployment Survey

This isn't technically a setup issue but we're working on the next wave of development tools and are...

Author: Quan Date: 08/29/2005

Less Framework Reboots

I joined the VS Setup team over1.5 years ago. The first project I worked on was to help reduce the...

Author: Quan Date: 08/28/2005

We fixed the regtlbv12.exe errors!

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog about regtlb errors with a workaround. To summarize, when...

Author: Quan Date: 08/21/2005

Visual Studio 2005 Express August CTP are available

The August CTP for Visual Studio Express SKUs are now available at:...

Author: Quan Date: 08/21/2005

CTP Madness

A customer emailed me yesterday and was confused with which CTPs for VS matched with which CTPs for...

Author: Quan Date: 08/16/2005

60 days till we RTM Visual Studio 2005

Today marks 60 days left till we sign off on Visual Studio 2005 (RTM = Release to Manufacturing)....

Author: Quan Date: 08/16/2005

regtlbv12.exe errors

Looking at our watson data, we have several customers who encountered a generic "setup failed"...

Author: Quan Date: 08/10/2005

VS 2005 Beta 2 installation failure on Windows Vista Beta 1

We received several bugs and I saw a bunch of newsgroup posts about this one. Due to a performance...

Author: Quan Date: 08/02/2005

Team Suite and Team Foundation July CTP are released

Visual Studio Team Suite 2005 July CTP and Visual Studio Team Foundation 2005 July CTP were released...

Author: Quan Date: 07/31/2005

Windows Vista Beta 1 (Longhorn) and VS 2005

Windows Vista Beta 1 will be out this week. Note, the framework version in Windows Vista is the Beta...

Author: Quan Date: 07/27/2005

0xC0000006 Exception during VS 2005 Setup

This was a pretty interesting bug we found in IExpress (the technology we use to package up some of...

Author: Quan Date: 07/25/2005

1618 Failures during VS Setup

I was just going through the setup newsgroups and noticed some questions about 1618 failures. A 1618...

Author: Quan Date: 07/23/2005

DVDs and CDs

This was by bad design on our part. The VS 2005 Beta 2 media was shipped on DVDs. SQL was also on...

Author: Quan Date: 07/22/2005

Machine disconnects from the network after installing VS 2005

During the installation of VS 2005, we chain in the Device Emulator which is used for developing...

Author: Quan Date: 07/22/2005

Error code 1601 during VS install

We've seen a couple of issues in the last few weeks where customers are seeing a 1601 failure during...

Author: Quan Date: 07/21/2005

VS 2005 supported Operating Systems

Every once in a while, we see failures from customers trying to deploy VS 2005 due to incorrect...

Author: Quan Date: 07/18/2005

July CTPs are available on MSDN

The Visual Studio 2005 July CTP is now available on MSDN (https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/)....

Author: Quan Date: 07/17/2005

Where are my VS Setup logs?

When installations fail, the first thing to do is to check the setup logs. The logs provide an...

Author: Quan Date: 07/14/2005

Install bug with the SDK with workaround

When installing the Framework SDK separately outside of installing Visual Studio, we found a bug...

Author: Quan Date: 07/07/2005

VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 June CTPs

The VS 2005 June CTP does not have a corresponding SQL Server 2005 CTP. The SQL Server 2005 June CTP...

Author: Quan Date: 07/06/2005

VS 2005 Beta 1 Expired

For many folks, VS Beta 1 just expired. If you still have Beta 1 on your machine, uninstall it and...

Author: Quan Date: 07/02/2005

Happy Canada Day! :)

I grew up in the great white north and miss the red and white celebrations :) Today also marks the...

Author: Quan Date: 07/01/2005

VS Setup newsgroup

If you're running into a setup issue with VS and don't know where to turn, try posting at:...

Author: Quan Date: 07/01/2005

VS Codenames

Visual Studio 2003 = Everett Visual Studio 2005 = Whidbey Next version = Orcas Next Next version =...

Author: Quan Date: 07/01/2005

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