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Friday, November 30, 2007 2:53 PM

Link to information about a .NET Framework 3.5 setup verification tool

One of my colleages, Aaron Ruckman , has created and posted a tool that can be used to verify the installation state of the .NET Framework 3.5 and let you know more details about any potential problems that it finds on your system. Here are links with
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:35 PM

Updated sample code that can detect the .NET Framework 3.5

Now that the .NET Framework 3.5 has been released , I have posted an updated version of the .NET Framework detection sample code that I previously published. The updated version includes logic to detect the presence of the .NET Framework 3.5 and also
Posted by astebner | 14 Comments
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:49 PM

New CTP of Visual Studio Team System Code Name Rosario now available with built-in WiX support

Jeff Beehler posted an item on his blog today announcing the availability of the Visual Studio Team System Code Name "Rosario" November CTP for download. The introductory page for this CTP can be found at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=96097 .
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:26 PM

VS 2008 Media Center Application project template installation issue in the Media Center SDK 5.3

There is a bug in the installation logic for the recently released Windows Vista Media Center SDK 5.3 that was briefly mentioned in this Media Center Sandbox blog post , and I wanted to link to it here as well in case anyone runs into it. Description
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:27 PM

Voting now open for the Media Center Show Awards 2007

Ian Dixon posted an item on his blog indicating that the voting for the Media Center Show Awards 2007 is now open. This year, the Media Center Show Awards has the following categories: Best open source Media Center project Best free (or free beta) Media
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:26 PM

Visual Studio setup /createtransform mode fails when the source files are marked read-only

Recently, a customer reported an issue to me with Visual Studio 2005 setup, and I have verified that this issue exists in both Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 setup. I want to describe the details about this issue and how to work around it in
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:19 AM

Visual Studio 2008 SDK and Visual Studio 2008 shell now available for download

Earlier this week, the final versions of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 were released. I just noticed that the Visual Studio 2008 SDK and the Visual Studio 2008 shell have also been released. The VS 2008 SDK includes documentation, samples
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:52 AM

Updated version of VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 setup log collection tool

I previously wrote about a log collection tool that will automatically gather and cab up Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 log files to make it easier to troubleshoot installation issues. The folks who created this tool have given me an updated
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 6:46 PM

XNA Game Studio 2.0 beta now available for download

As noted in this post on the XNA team blog , the XNA Game Studio 2.0 beta is now available for download. You can get started by checking out the overview information at http://creators.xna.com/beta/betahome.aspx . This page includes links to information
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Monday, November 19, 2007 6:15 PM

Windows Vista Media Center SDK version 5.3 now available for download

A refreshed version of the Windows Vista Media Center SDK (version 5.3) has been released for download this afternoon. The download location is the same as the previous versions of the Windows Vista Media Center SDK - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A43EA0B7-B85F-4612-AA08-3BF128C5873E
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 11:58 AM

Additional .NET Framework 2.0 SP1, 3.0 SP1 and 3.5 download links

Earlier today, I posted an item on my blog with a list of links that can be used to download the final release of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Since then, I found some additional links for .NET Framework packages that were also released
Posted by astebner | 23 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 9:50 AM

Final release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 now available

As noted this morning in this post on Soma's blog , the final release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 (previously codenamed Orcas) are now available for download. You can the .NET Framework 3.5 at the following locations: .NET Framework
Posted by astebner | 10 Comments
Sunday, November 18, 2007 5:53 PM

Using WiX 3.0 to create a per-user MSI that does not prompt for elevation on Windows Vista

A while back, I posted a summary of some information I learned about how Windows Installer interacts with UAC on Windows Vista. Included in that blog post is a list of steps that must be taken to create a per-user MSI that will not cause a Windows Vista
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Thursday, November 15, 2007 7:29 PM

XNA Game Studio 2.0 beta will be available soon

I noticed an item on the XNA team blog that was posted today, and I wanted to link to it here as well. There will be a beta version of XNA Game Studio 2.0 available for download in the near future. You can check out the entire post here - http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2007/11/15/xna-game-studio-2-0-beta-available-soon.aspx
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:08 PM

How to avoid OS reboot prompt when installing the .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Vista

Description of the issue When installing the .NET Framework 3.5 or Visual Studio 2008 on Windows Vista RTM, some people have noticed that a Windows Update dialog box pops up to indicate that the system must be restarted in order to complete installation
Posted by astebner | 25 Comments
Friday, November 09, 2007 3:08 PM

How to work around product key issue with new Visual Studio 2008 silent switches

I previously wrote a blog post describing some new silent install switches that have been introduced in Visual Studio 2008 setup. Unfortunately, an issue was recently found with these switches that can cause installation to fail. To summarize the issue,
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:11 PM

Forum that can be used to report EPG data issues for Windows Vista Media Center

A while back, I posted some links to EPG data error reporting sites for Windows XP Media Center Edition ( here and here ). Recently, I have heard from a couple of folks who have had trouble reporting EPG issues for Windows Vista Media Center using these
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Sunday, November 04, 2007 9:07 PM

Updated version of the .NET Framework verification tool now available

I have posted an updated version of the .NET Framework setup verification tool this weekend. It contains the following changes: Some false positives were being reported when verifying the .NET Framework 1.1 on Windows Vista. Previously, the tool would
Posted by astebner | 6 Comments
Friday, November 02, 2007 3:19 PM

How to work around Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 unattended install bug related to Windows Installer 3.1

While helping an internal Microsoft team work on deployment scripts to install Visual Studio 2008 to the systems in their test lab, we found a bug in the VS 2005 and VS 2008 unattended setup logic that I wanted to describe here and provide a workaround
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:19 PM

Possible .NET Framework 3.5 installation failure caused by broken MSXML registration

The .NET Framework 3.5 can fail to install on a system where MSXML is not properly registered. There is a custom action that runs during .NET Framework 3.5 setup that tries to use some APIs in MSXML to modify some information in the web_mediumtrust.config
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
 
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