Quan To's Visual Studio Extensibility blog
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