Visual C++ 2010 fails to embed manifest on FAT32

Today I tried to figure out why one of my Visual Studio Projects failed to embed a Manifest. I had Generate Manifest and Embed Manifest enabled under Linker / Manifest tool, but manifest was not embedded. Long story short, after 2 hours of configuring, rebuilding, creating, deleting, I had the following state: – Move project …

Visual Studio 2010 help system is missing index and full TOC

The new Visual Studio 2010 help system is missing index and full TOC. Transition from old good HTML help to new Web Browser Based Approach thing is painful, but the inability to search using index made this thing unusable. Luckily, I am not alone, and people are talking about these shortcomings everywhere – Microsoft Connect, …

Setup Project shows ‘WARNING: Could not find prerequisite’ under Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio Installer (MSI) warning: WARNING: Could not find prerequisite ‘.NET Framework 2.0 (x86)’ in path ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\’ or WARNING: Could not find prerequisite ‘.NET Framework 2.0 (x86)’ in path ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper\’ The result is that automatic downloading of prerequisites does not work any more. This is caused by fact, that Visual …