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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:33 PM

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 setup log files

The installers for the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 chain several different prerequisites and optional components behind the scenes. If one of these setups fails, there are numerous possible causes due to the number of packages being chained
Posted by astebner | 39 Comments
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 4:36 PM

Possible cause of Windows - No Disk error during VS 2008 beta 2 setup

We have seen a few cases where running Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 setup will cause an error dialog to appear when the setup UI initializes. The dialog has the title Windows - No Disk and has Cancel, Try Again and Continue buttons, and looks something like
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Monday, July 30, 2007 12:01 PM

VS 2008 beta 2 install failure caused by previous beta version of Microsoft Web Designer Tools

Because of the large volume of beta uninstall issues that were seen during the Visual Studio 2005 project, the beta versions of Visual Studio 2008 will automatically chain uninstall of other beta packages that it installs as prerequisites or optional
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:12 PM

CTP of peer-assisted download manager that can be used for Visual Studio 2008 beta 2

I previously posted a set of links to download various editions of Visual Studio 2008 beta 2. Most of those links point to very large DVD images that can be problematic to download due to their large sizes. There is a community technology preview (CTP)
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:56 PM

.NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 and Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 now available

As announced earlier today in this post on Soma's blog, beta 2 of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code named Orcas) were released for download today. You can check out this MSDN page for more information, and also check out this
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 2:58 PM

Example WiX-based setup that adds a custom strip to the Windows Vista Media Center start menu

In the past, I've posted examples (such as this and this ) demonstrating how to create installers for Windows Vista Media Center applications using WiX . A couple of those examples ended up shipping in the Media Center SDK for the Q and Z sample applications.
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
Monday, July 23, 2007 5:09 PM

List of Windows locale identifier constants and strings

Recently, I was looking for a list of locales supported by Windows as well as the locale ID values and abbreviations for each of them. Fortunately, a friend pointed me at this location on MSDN: Locale Identifier Constants and Strings - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms776260.aspx
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:10 PM

Windows Vista Media Center cookbook application

Olcay Buyan, a developer from MceDev.com , has posted an introduction and some screenshots for a new Windows Vista Media Center application that is currently being developed. The application is an interactive cookbook, and in this post , it is combined
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:10 AM

Link to updated Time Travel with Windows Media Center article

Stephen Toub recently posted this item on his blog and I wanted to link to it to make sure that Media Center application developers see it. A while back, Stephen wrote an article that explained how to develop an application for Windows XP Media Center
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:35 PM

Link to information about configuring Software Explorer on Windows Vista

I noticed an interesting post on the Windows Installer team blog that I wanted to draw some more attention to. The post, located at http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2007/07/06/configuring-windows-vista-software-explorer.aspx , explains
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:19 PM

Link to details about how to use new patch creation features in WiX v3.0

Peter Marcu posted a couple of items on his blog recently that I wanted to link to here so hopefully more folks will see them. The first is a high-level description of new patching features that have been added to WiX v3.0 over the past few months. You
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
Monday, July 16, 2007 4:52 PM

June 2007 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista available for download

While I was on vacation, a new cumulative update package for Windows Vista Media Center was released. This update is called the June 2007 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista and is also known as KB935652. It is available for download
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