Starting with Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft stopped offering its internal Setup project template, instead going with a third-party version from Flexera Software called InstallShield Limited Edition.

You can check whether SSDT is installed by clicking Help / About Microsoft Visual Studio and looking for SQL Server Data Tools. Visual Studio does not offer the ...

Microsoft has brought back a much-missed bit of functionality from Visual Studio 2010 and put it back in Visual Studio 2013: Visual Studio Installer projects. The new version is called Visual Studio ...

Microsoft today released Visual Studio "15" Preview 4, an early build of what is to be the next version of the company's IDE. Today's Preview brings improvements to the installer and more. Microsoft ...

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When the beta for Visual Studio 2010 (news, site) first came out, it lacked the ability to create ASP.NET MVC applications. This was because Visual Studio was in lock down before MVC 1.0 was released.

I recently bought a new Razer Deathstalker Ultimate keyboard and went about installing the Razer Synapse software on my Windows 8.1 machine. Everything seemed fine until I went about installing Visual ...

Using the Visual Studio Installer, install Visual Studio. To find the installer in Windows, you can type “installer” into the Start menu. You can add SSDT to any ...