Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview installer seems to ignore the installation location

Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview installer seems to ignore the installation location by Alireza Maddah

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Type:	Bug
ID:	690485
Opened:	9/23/2011 9:43:05 AM
Access Restriction:	Public
Moderator Decision:	Sent to Engineering Team for consideration

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Hello,
Today, While trying to install the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview, I discovered that the installer "seems to" ignore the path entered as installation location and it chooses the "C:" partition by default. From the attached log file, it's clear that I've chosen "E:\VS11_DP_CTP_ULT_ENU\vs_ultimate.exe" as the setup path, but nothing gets copied to this folder during the installation process and since the "C:" partition does not have sufficient disk space to meet the VS 11 requirements, it goes out of space after a while.

Of course, I agree that this failure may be due to the fact that many parts of VS 11 Developer preview can only be installed in C: drive because of their strong dependencies, but in this case, where there are not notifications regarding current disk space and remaining disk space for all partitions after the installation process as existed in VS 2010 installer and no error message is shown prior to initializing the installation, I'd glad to see the clarification message here.

As always, I look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks.

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Visual Studio v-Next

1 - Launch Visual Studio 11 Developer preview setup in a machine that does not have sufficient disk space.
2 - Enter a partition other that "C:" as the installation location.
3 - Start the process and wait until the installation fails.

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The installer ignores the installation location introduced by the user.

The installer should not ignore the installation location introduced by the user.

File Name	Submitted By	Submitted On	File Size
dd_vs_ultimate_20110923185922.log	Alireza Maddah	9/23/2011	1.24 MB

Posted by rjcox on 1/14/2012 at 9:46 AM

I see this also.

Specified install into C:\VS11Preview1, but only blend components are there. The install of the IDE, SDK tools etc. is all in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0".

It also seems to have ignored not selecting Office and SharePoint development: these have been installed.

(This is on Server 2008 R2, a preview VS2010 install had the same problem -- ignoring any customisation of the install -- until I started the installer elevated. But I did that with VS11 from the start.)

Posted by MS-Moderator10 [Feedback Moderator] on 9/25/2011 at 11:13 PM

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Posted by MS-Moderator01 on 9/23/2011 at 10:45 AM

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