Installing Visual Studio and Service Pack(s)

[Phill W.]

First you install Visual Studio.
Then you install one or more Service Packs on top of it.

Unless you have a stupidly fast machine this takes a long time and when
you've got a department of near eighty Developers all needing to do this
(say, when their PC's are upgraded), that can add up to a lot of down
time.

Is there a utility that can take the V.S. installation package(s) and
"merge" them into a single package, so that you can simply do /one/
install from this merged source and have the whole lot done in one go?

I'm thinking of something along the lines of the [old] MSDN CD's, where
you could copy all three disks to a single directory, overwriting the
common bits, and have the whole lot accessible without having to shuffle
disks every other time you did a search.

TIA,
Phill W.

[Bruce W. Darby]

Phil,

Here you go...

http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive...ce-pack-1.aspx

Bruce

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First you install Visual Studio.
Then you install one or more Service Packs on top of it.

Unless you have a stupidly fast machine this takes a long time and when
you've got a department of near eighty Developers all needing to do this
(say, when their PC's are upgraded), that can add up to a lot of down
time.

Is there a utility that can take the V.S. installation package(s) and
"merge" them into a single package, so that you can simply do /one/
install from this merged source and have the whole lot done in one go?

I'm thinking of something along the lines of the [old] MSDN CD's, where
you could copy all three disks to a single directory, overwriting the
common bits, and have the whole lot accessible without having to shuffle
disks every other time you did a search.

TIA,
Phill W.

[Stephany Young]

Yes.

The method for doing so is detailed in the installation intructions.
"Phill W." <p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d@o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-kwrote in message
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First you install Visual Studio.
Then you install one or more Service Packs on top of it.

Unless you have a stupidly fast machine this takes a long time and when
you've got a department of near eighty Developers all needing to do this
(say, when their PC's are upgraded), that can add up to a lot of down
time.

Is there a utility that can take the V.S. installation package(s) and
"merge" them into a single package, so that you can simply do /one/
install from this merged source and have the whole lot done in one go?

I'm thinking of something along the lines of the [old] MSDN CD's, where
you could copy all three disks to a single directory, overwriting the
common bits, and have the whole lot accessible without having to shuffle
disks every other time you did a search.

TIA,
Phill W.