>>After installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1, the WinSxS Merge Modules will
be available in [ProgramFilesFolder]Common Files\Merge Modules.
But beware of the Orca behavior. Any one of the RTM versions that you
looked at with Orca won't be updated by installing SP1 because Orca
unconditionally changes the modify date. That makes it different from
the creation date, therefore SP1 won't replace it.
I'm not talking about changing the merge module - just simply opening it
with Orca will effectively disable the SP1 update of that merge module.
Phil Wilson
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After installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1, the WinSxS Merge Modules will
be available in [ProgramFilesFolder]Common Files\Merge Modules.
Unless you had a pre-release version of Visual Studio 2005 installed on
your system. There's a bug where only the 64-bit Merge Modules would be
updated by Visual Studio 2005 SP1, because pre-release Visual Studio
2005 did not uninstall the 32-bit Merge Modules. Visual Studio 2005 SP1
then doesn't install them. So grab them from another system and
overwrite the pre-release versions.
They're absolute terrible at verification, however, throwing up every
warning imaginable in InstallShield 12 (I know, I know...).
Joel Peterson
Quality Engineer
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On 4/27/07, Wilson, Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ah, ok, the one in [ProgramFilesFolder]Microsoft Visual Studio
8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\vcredist_x86 is up to date with SP1.
yes, I should probably have mentioned that (as long as you pull it from
a machine that has been updated with SP1),
FWIW, I still find it "suboptimal" that Microsoft distributes an old
version on the web...
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