You can read part one at Upgrading Mini-Compressor to .NET 4.0 Notes post.
One item that I feel has been neglected by Visual Studio is the Setup & Deployment projects. There has been little improvements to them since Visual Studio 2003 but finally VS2010 has new “feature”:
- A customer installs your software using the installer created using VS2008.
- You upgrade your product to .NET 4.0 using VS2010 and create a new MSI.
- The customer runs your new MSI to upgrade their software. After the upgrade is complete nothing is installed at all.
I really do mean nothing, no files in the Program Files folder, no registry entries, shortcuts, etc. The old version is gone along with the new version. It’s a great new feature, I mean bug. The bug is known to Microsoft and you can read more about it here. A summarized description of the error and some workarounds:
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