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Monday, June 25, 2007 9:54 PM

See you in three weeks....

I wanted to drop a brief note and let folks who read my blog know that I'm going to be on vacation for the next 3 weeks. During that time, I will be completely away from my computer, and I won't be able to read emails sent to me via my blog or moderate
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Monday, June 25, 2007 8:26 AM

Link to information about the Windows Installer 4.5 beta program

I noticed a post on the Windows Installer team blog this morning that I wanted to link to here. There will be a beta available soon for Windows Installer 4.5, and the team is asking for folks to sign up to participate in the beta program. If you're interested
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Saturday, June 23, 2007 9:52 PM

Possible cause of Media Center remote control button issues related to HID service

Recently, I heard from a customer who had a problem where some buttons on their remote control worked but others did not. They tried the workarounds in the Remote Control and IR Receiver Errors section of this blog article , but none of them helped. Fortunately,
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Friday, June 22, 2007 9:23 AM

Link to an article about managing side-by-side file associations for Visual Studio add-ins

I have created installers in the past ( using WiX ) that add templates to Visual Studio 2005. Recently, I started looking at adding support for Visual Studio 2008 to one of these setup packages. This particular package installs some file associations
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:35 PM

Mailbag: How can I install a file to the GAC and the local file system using WiX syntax?

Question: I am creating an MSI-based setup using WiX . One of the files that I am installing is authored like this: <DirectoryRef Id="MyDirectory"> <Component Id="MyComponent" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE" DiskId="1"> <File Id="MyAssembly" Name="MyAssembly.dll"
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:33 PM

My thoughts about using WiX and RegisterMceApp in Media Center application setups

As part of his series about creating a Windows Vista Media Center application, Steven Harding recently posted an item on his blog describing how to create an installer for a Media Center application. In this post, Steven walks through the process of determining
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Monday, June 18, 2007 12:20 PM

Try Windows Vista and Visual Studio 2005 on a virtual hard drive

Recently, I read an article about trial versions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 R2 and Visual Studio 2005 that have been released as virtual hard drive (VHD) images. If you have a program like Virtual PC , you can download and run these VHDs without
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:22 AM

New Windows Vista Media Center mail, RSS and videophone applications from OABSoftware

I recently noticed a few posts on the Green Button forums announcing some new and updated Windows Vista Media Center applications from OABSoftware . I wanted to post some information about them in case you didn't see those forum posts. This information
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Friday, June 15, 2007 8:25 AM

Update Rollup 2 setup can fail because it does not detect the .NET Framework 1.1 SP1

It has been a while since I've written about any setup issues related to Update Rollup 2 for Media Center 2005 . The lack of posts has been caused by several things: Most (if not all) systems that ship with XP Media Center pre-installed now also include
Posted by astebner | 7 Comments
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:24 PM

Possible cause of 1935 error with HRESULT 0x8002802F

A while back, I posted an article describing causes of many types of 1935 errors that have been seen in the past. I wanted to talk about one specific type of 1935 error in a little more detail and provide information about a possible root cause that I
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:42 AM

New Windows Vista Media Center applications - Yougle 2 and EMUCenter

Steven Harding posted an item on his blog at http://thedigitallifestyle.com/cs/blogs/developer/archive/2007/06/11/emucenter-is-out-now.aspx that announces 2 new Windows Vista Media Center applications that he has been working on: Yougle This application
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Saturday, June 09, 2007 4:04 PM

Introduction to Big Screen Movies application for Windows Vista Media Center

Niall Ginsbourg is at it again. A while ago, he introduced an application called Big Screen TV Series that he has been working on (in blog posts here and here ). Today, he posted some information about another new application called Big Screen Movies,
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Friday, June 08, 2007 9:28 AM

Update on how to deploy the .NET Framework 3.0 on Windows XP Embedded

Earlier this week, I posted an item with a link to an article on the Windows Embedded team's blog that provides step-by-step instructions to create a Windows XP Embedded runtime image that you can install the .NET Framework 3.0 on. Today, I noticed this
Posted by astebner | 17 Comments
Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:55 PM

Link to information about MSI script-based custom action error codes 2738 and 2739

Heath Stewart posted an item on his blog this past week that I wanted to raise awareness about. In the post, located at http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/05/31/windows-installer-errors-2738-and-2739-with-script-custom-actions.aspx , Heath described
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 5:10 PM

Problem deploying the RGB Rasterizer MSI in the .NET Framework 3.0 via Active Directory

Recently, I've heard from a couple of customers who have been trying to use the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Administrator Deployment Guide to deploy the .NET Framework 3.0 to their network using Active Directory. They have run into problems deploying
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Monday, June 04, 2007 5:21 PM

How to deploy the .NET Framework 3.0 on Windows XP Embedded

I ran across a question on the .NET Framework setup forum today about installing the .NET Framework 3.0 on a Windows XP Embedded runtime image. Fortunately, Andy alerted me to a post on the Windows Embedded team blog that describes the following: How
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
Sunday, June 03, 2007 8:09 PM

Updated betas of Big Screen Headlines and Big Screen Contacts available for download

Niall Ginsbourg posted an item on his blog this weekend where he announces the availability of updated beta versions of Big Screen Headlines (a Media Center RSS feed viewer) and Big Screen Contacts (a Media Center Windows contact viewer/manager). As he
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Sunday, June 03, 2007 5:15 PM

Web Designer Tools can fail to install during VS Orcas beta 1 setup on 64-bit Windows

When Visual Studio Codename Orcas beta 1 was initially released back in April, I posted this item about a possible failure during the installation of the Microsoft Web Designer Tools prerequisite component. That failure was caused by a leftover beta version
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Friday, June 01, 2007 4:25 PM

Link to information about smart cabbing feature in WiX v3.0

Rob Mensching posted an item on his blog last night that I wanted to bring to your attention. Recently, he implemented a feature in WiX v3.0 to potentially reduce the size of the cab files produced during the WiX build process. With this feature, if your
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
 
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