VS 2003 SP1 Install
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First you get the Windows Installer dialog displayed for ages apparently doing nothing then you get the "Configuring Visual Studio 2003" dialog for ages. Combined time is about 15 minutes. Then you get a message asking if you want to install Visual Studio 2003 SP1! Well,I'd never have guessed!:wtf: (IIRC VS 2005 SP1 behaves similarly. However, I've not noticed it as I've only ever installed it from the command prompt in quiet mode.)
Kevin
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First you get the Windows Installer dialog displayed for ages apparently doing nothing then you get the "Configuring Visual Studio 2003" dialog for ages. Combined time is about 15 minutes. Then you get a message asking if you want to install Visual Studio 2003 SP1! Well,I'd never have guessed!:wtf: (IIRC VS 2005 SP1 behaves similarly. However, I've not noticed it as I've only ever installed it from the command prompt in quiet mode.)
Kevin
See old regular Heath Stewart's blog[^] for why this is. Basically it boils down to Windows Installer having a damn stupid piece of code in it which loads the entire patch into a contiguous block of virtual memory before trying to run signature validation over it. What it should be doing is either memory-mapping the file or reading a small block at a time. This is what deserves 'WTF' status. Presumably they assumed that patches would be small, not 500MB in the case of VS2005.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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See old regular Heath Stewart's blog[^] for why this is. Basically it boils down to Windows Installer having a damn stupid piece of code in it which loads the entire patch into a contiguous block of virtual memory before trying to run signature validation over it. What it should be doing is either memory-mapping the file or reading a small block at a time. This is what deserves 'WTF' status. Presumably they assumed that patches would be small, not 500MB in the case of VS2005.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
From this: http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/10/06/VS-2005-SP1-Takes-a-While-to-Install.aspx[^] I didn't realise there were other options when running in quiet mode. start /wait VS80sp1-KB918525-X86-Beta-ENU.exe /quiet /L*v+ VS80sp1-KB918525-X86-Beta-ENU.log Just as well it went smoothly for me.:)
Kevin