Another installer that many Windows developers use is the open-source Windows Installer XML , available on SourceForge. One developer said his solution is to develop in Visual Studio 2012 and keep a ...

2] Check your Internet connection. Since Visual Studio Installer is supposed to fetch the package from the web, it needs a good Internet connection to do the same.

Wise for Windows Installer 6.0 is a development solution for creating setup kits that use Microsoft's installation (MSI) technology. It supports a wide range of targets, including traditional Windows ...

Microsoft's installer for Visual Studio Code aims to help developers program in Java with the popular lightweight code editor by standardizing on the AdoptOpenJDK distribution of OpenJDK, ... a free ...

But, there are no built-in tools in Visual Studio to look into the MSI contents. Even if you make a small change in MSI, it requires rebuilding the entire Setup Project.

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.