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Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:34 PM

A couple of new Visual Studio and .NET Framework setup blogs

A couple of colleagues of mine from my days on the Visual Studio and .NET Framework setup team have started blogging and I wanted to post links to their blogs here and encourage everyone to check them out. Quan has already posted some nice workarounds
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Friday, June 24, 2005 8:48 PM

Installing an assembly to the GAC and the local file system

Some products require that assemblies be installed to both the global assembly cache (GAC) and to the local file system. Windows Installer has native functionality that allows a setup author to do both. You can author an assembly as a global assembly
Posted by astebner | 14 Comments
Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:31 PM

How to repair the .NET Framework 1.1 that ships as part of the OS on Windows Server 2003

The .NET Framework 1.1 ships as an OS component on the 32-bit Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems. This .NET Framework component is a hidden, always-installed component with the exception of ASP.NET (which can be found as a selectable item
Posted by astebner | 30 Comments
Friday, June 17, 2005 3:56 PM

Using MsiBreak to gather debugging information for .NET Framework setup failures

I have been working on the .NET Framework setup since before v1.0 shipped, and in that time I've seen all sorts of bugs and setup failures. There is one particularly tricky set of bugs that all show the same symptom but that we haven't been able to track
Posted by astebner | 26 Comments
Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:09 PM

VS 2005 beta 2 setup fails with 1935 or 2908 assembly installation error

I have heard from a few people (including this customer comment on a previous blog post and a fellow Microsoft employee) who have tried to install VS 2005 beta 2 and received 1935 (or 2908) assembly install errors with HRESULT value 0x8002802F. If you
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 09, 2005 6:27 PM

Cool tip if you are seeing performance problems in Visual Studio 2005 Team System projects

I found this blog post that I wanted to link to here as well. Yosi provides a good set of troubleshooting steps and a workaround if you are seeing performance problems creating team projects using Visual Studio 2005 Team System . In a nutshell - you can
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:22 PM

Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 will not install on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

If anyone has tried to install Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition , I am sure you have noticed that installation does not work correctly because VS setup says that you need to install Windows XP Service Pack 2 even though
Posted by astebner | 6 Comments
Sunday, June 05, 2005 4:28 PM

How to get around the MSI 3.0 block in .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 setup

<updated on June 6, 2005 - reworded one of the caveats and moved it to be caveat #1 based on the comment from HeathS about the requirement that Windows Installer 3.x be present in order to install .NET Framework 2.0 hotfixes or service packs> Some
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:09 PM

Always Ready for Windows Media Center

I found an article in PCWorld this week that talks about a new Windows Media Center computer being produced by Shuttle with Always Ready technology. Always Ready is sort of a sub-sleep state that allows Media Center to go into a deep hibernation, which
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:44 PM

How to fix problem installing SQL Express if SQL Server 2005 is already installed

<updated on June 3, 2005 - changed the product name from "SQL Server Tools Express" to "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Express Edition CTP" based on the full official name as it appears in Add/Remove Programs> There is a known setup interaction
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
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