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Visual Studio 2010 modifies timestamps of output files in Visual Studio installers to the time that the installers are built

Summary

If you build a Visual Studio Installer project with Visual Studio 2010, the timestamps of the installed files are modified to the time that the installer is built.

 

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

The behavior is caused by a bug in the cabbing functionality of Visual Studio. When Visual Studio build and cab the output files of the installer, Visual Studio modifies the timestamp of all files to the time that the installer is built.

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Keywords: vkball, kb

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Article Info
Article ID : 2665590
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/8/2017
Published on : 1/12/2012
Exists online : False
Views : 93