Hi Rob,
I am sorry for the confusion.
I just realized documentation is lacking in regards to that specific setting in the options dialog, so I will elaborate a bit more on what changing the download folder accomplishes (hopefully, preventing any further confusion):
- It changes the location where the Visual Studio Extensions download updates
- It changes the path where the Visual Studio Extensions look for updates
Having accomplished the above, you will be able to use a non-user-specific download folder, enabling collaboration scenarios and multiple users on a single machine.
Once the folder is changed, all of our Visual Studio Extensions' wizards will look for assemblies in the new location, meaning you will not have to browse for your assemblies each and every time you wish to use them.
Other than that, downloading an update will not change your existing installation in any way. As for Visual Studio's
Add New Reference dialog, we do not register any updates there, as that would require elevated privileges (machine level registry access) and using our
Project Configuration Wizard is faster and easier.
Having the above in mind, my remarks on your setup are the following:
- There is no reason for moving the updates under your installed version's folder as they have no relation. An easy thing to do would be changing the downloads folder to "C:\Program Files\Telerik\Downloads" for instance and just moving all of the Updates folder's content in the Downloads folder, preserving the same directory structure.
- There is no need to manually update any of your references. You should be able to just run our Upgrade Wizard and use the combobox to select the RadControls version you require.
I hope that clears the confusion. Please do not hesitate to write if any further questions arise.
All the best,
Andrey
the Telerik team
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