Thursday, 3 December 2015

What’s happened to the Visual Studio installer?

Well, they sorted it out! The Visual Studio 2015 installer is now componentised:

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It is now very straightforward to understand, especially for upgrades. This is true also for the third party components like the Android development stuff.

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How was that possible, given the monolithic ISO that Visual Studio was? Let’s have a look at the packages:

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And then there is a file for the external, downloadable components. It is the feed.xml file, this is an extract:

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Kudos to the team!

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