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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:15 PM

Beta version of Microsoft Locale Builder now available for download

A friend of mine sent me a link to an interesting tool that has a beta version available for download. It is called the Microsoft Locale Builder , and it can be installed and used on Windows Vista beta 2. In a nutshell, it allows users to create customized
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:35 PM

Automated cleanup tool to remove the .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5

I have posted an updated version of the .NET Framework cleanup tool that now contains support for automatically cleaning up the .NET Framework 1.0 , the .NET Framework 1.1 , the .NET Framework 2.0 , the .NET Framework 3.0 and the .NET Framework 3.5 .
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Monday, May 29, 2006 8:25 PM

How to perform a command line installation of SQL Server 2005

I was asked by a customer a while back about available options for performing silent installation of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition . I haven't had a lot of time to research this issue, and the only steps I knew were the ones used by Visual Studio setup
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:19 PM

Beta 2 version of Windows Media Center SDK for Windows Vista now available

I posted an annoucement on the Media Center Sandbox site earlier today, and I want to cross-post it here to make sure that everyone sees it. I'm really excited to announce that the final beta 2 version of the Windows Media Center SDK (build 5384.4) for
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:22 PM

My file server is back up and running

I posted an item this morning indicating that the server that I use to host my troubleshooting tools has been down for the past couple of days. I'm happy to report that it is back up and running now, so you will be able to download any of the troubleshooting
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:56 AM

My file server is temporarily down for maintenance

I'm posting this here in the hopes that everyone who has read one of my blog posts and tried to download one of the tools that I have posted on my SharePoint site will see this. Currently, the server I use to host all of the tools that I have posted for
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:18 PM

How to create an installable layout for the WinFX Runtime Components

I have previously posted instructions that can be used to download the individual pieces of the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions and create a network install point so that you do not need to use the download functionality in the Express Edition setup.exe
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Monday, May 22, 2006 8:40 PM

How to manually install the various pieces of Update Rollup 2 for Media Center 2005

I have previously written about a couple of instances where Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 setup can fail because other Windows hotfixes have been installed in such a way that they interfere with the hotfixes that Update Rollup
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Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:14 PM

How to fix Visual Studio 2005 beta expiration dialog

As some of you may have noticed, the beta versions of Visual Studio 2005 expired on May 1, 2006. When you attempt to launch any beta version of the VS 2005 IDE and your system clock is set to May 1, 2006 or later, you will receive a message box with the
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Friday, May 19, 2006 6:06 PM

What to do if you receive unsupported OS message when installing Windows Media Player 11 Beta on Windows Media Center 2005

As many of you have noticed, a beta version of Windows Media Player 11 was released this week. The WMP 11 beta only allows installation on Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 but not on any previous versions of Windows XP Media Center
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:03 PM

WMIDiag - a tool for diagnosing and repairing problems with the WMI service

Earlier this week, I was looking into an issue reported to me via my blog, and I found a case where problems with the WMI service were causing SQL Server 2005 setup to fail. When trying to find out more information about this error, I received a set of
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 6:22 PM

Beta version of Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor now available

There is now a beta version of the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor available for download. This tool can be installed and run on a Windows XP computer to assess how well the computer will run Windows Vista. There are several categories of Windows Vista
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:48 PM

Workaround for possible timing issue that can cause .NET Framework setup failures

I got an email from the .NET Framework setup technical support team today with some more information about a possible workaround for setup failures that occur while trying to register System.EnterpriseServices.dll or run RegSvcs.exe /bootstrapi. I have
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:10 PM

How WinFX Runtime setup blocks uninstall of the .NET Framework 2.0

A little while back, I was looking into an odd scenario reported by a fellow Microsoft employee where they tried to install the final release of Visual Studio 2005 , but it reported that the beta version of the .NET Framework 2.0 needed to be uninstalled
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:45 PM

Updated version of DUAScriptGen (v1.1.0010) is now available

I have released an updated version of DUAScriptGen tonight that contains a couple of bug fixes, one that is relatively small and one that is bigger. I decided to increase the version number by more than 1 to indicate that the change is more substantial
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 9:27 PM

Windows Media Center SDK build 5381.1 now available

There is a new build of the Windows Media Center SDK available on the Microsoft Connect site for folks in the Windows Vista beta program. This build is compatible with Windows Vista 5381.1 build, which was released at the end of last week. You can find
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Monday, May 08, 2006 5:44 PM

Good reference document for debugging assembly loading errors

I ran across a blog post from Suzanne Cook this past weekend that has been around for a while, but that has some excellent information about techniques for debugging assembly loading errors . I'm not sure how I managed to miss such a useful and informative
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Saturday, May 06, 2006 4:05 PM

Workaround to allow pre-installing the .NET Framework 2.0 during the T13 phase of OS setup using svcpack.inf

I previously wrote about a scenario where installing the .NET Framework 2.0 fails when launching it from svcpack.inf during the T13 phase of OS setup. When I originally wrote that post, the only workarounds that I had to offer were to install the .NET
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 6:04 PM

How to perform an unattended install of Visual Studio 2005 from a DVD-ROM drive

I recently heard from a customer who was trying to deploy Visual Studio 2005 using an unattended INI file and saw setup fail, but only when launching setup directly from the DVD. If they shared the DVD-ROM drive and installed from it using a UNC path
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:47 PM

How to resolve possible errors installing SQL Server 2005 SP1 related to the Setup Support Files

I heard from a customer recently who had an issue installing SQL Server 2005 SP1 ( here for Express Edition or here for non-Express Editions) on a system that had multiple editions of SQL 2005 installed. They indicated that they were encountering the
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:57 PM

Information about patching improvements for future Visual Studio and .NET Framework hotfixes

I found a couple of articles that Heath Stewart wrote a few months ago that I somehow missed at the time that he posted them. His team has been developing a new wrapper setup.exe that will be used for all future Visual Studio and .NET Framework hotfixes
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Monday, May 01, 2006 6:26 PM

How to perform an unattended uninstall of Visual Studio 2005

I have previously posted several items about how to manage deployment of Visual Studio 2005, but a question was sent to me today that I haven't addressed yet - how to perform an unattended uninstall of Visual Studio 2005 . It is possible to perform an
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