Why we need Quad Cores and RAID 0
8/17/2009
So we can install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 in less time than it takes for paint to dry.
I have never been a fan of MSI. I understand the problems that Microsoft wanted to solve, however MSI installs have done little to help and are extremely slow.
If you think MSI installs have really solved much, why are there so many non MSI installs? Secondly try this:
- Install Visual Studio 2008.
- Install Visual Studio 2008 SP1.
- The child that was born after before you started the install, is now ready to graduate so attend graduation ceremony.
- Install Team Foundation Client. Its a separate install not linked from the main install, and in a directory on the Visual Studio 2008 disc.
So if Microsoft cannot even get this stuff right using MSI, how did it help? Yes I know MSI helps in network deployments, but the disadvantages it foists on the rest of it is not worth that.
With the Windows 7 betas, and the fact that I change my notebook every 2 months (I'm performing hardware testing for a project) I have to reinstall stuff a lot. I expect on netbooks it should not be fast, but an upgrade should not need to run over night. And even on desktop with a quad core CPU, and RAID 0, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is excruciatingly slow.
Conflicts
On every machine I've installed SP1, it conflicts with "Machine Debug Manager". This is a service which appears to be part of Visual Studio 2008. Searching shows this is a common issue, and it can be solved by stopping the service. But why cannot the install be smart enough to do this considering its a part of Visual Studio?
And if you have running programs which use Visual Studio libraries you can also have conflicts. I installed several desktop gadgets, and one of them conflicted. I was never able to determine which one as it reported simply a conflict with a gadget. I could not find a way to temporarly disable them (Windows 7 you don't have a sidebar so you cant just close it) and I had to remove all of them, then readd them later, including reconfiguring most.
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