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January 2008 - Posts

Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:00 PM

Link announcing Big Screen Global web site and Big Screen Photos and Weather v2

Niall Ginsbourg announced the launch of his new Big Screen Global web site and the release of the Big Screen Photos v2 and Big Screen Weather v2 applications for Windows Vista Media Center. I have been using the beta versions of a few of the Big Screen
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:16 PM

How to re-enable Windows Media Center in the Default Programs control panel on Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate

Yesterday, I posted some information about a Group Policy setting that can prevent Windows Media Center from launching on a Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate system. Since then, I have heard from a couple of people who have been receiving the same
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Monday, January 28, 2008 3:47 PM

How to use Group Policy to enable and disable Windows Media Center in Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate editions

Description of the issue Recently, I was contacted by a customer who is running Windows Vista Home Premium, but who was unable to launch Windows Media Center. There was not a shortcut available on the Windows Vista start menu, and when they tried navigating
Posted by astebner | 6 Comments
Friday, January 25, 2008 5:05 PM

.NET Framework 3.5 deployment guides have been published on MSDN

The official deployment guides for system administrators and application developers have been posted on MSDN, and I wanted to provide links here to help raise visibility for them. Here they are along with some additional information about what is contained
Posted by astebner | 11 Comments
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:59 AM

XNA Game Studio 2.0 product feedback survey now available on the Connect site

The XNA team has published a new survey on the Connect site to gather feedback about the XNA Game Studio 2.0 product. The answers to this survey will be used to help guide the team as it makes plans for the future of the XNA Game Studio product line.
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Monday, January 21, 2008 6:04 PM

Creating an installable layout for the .NET Framework 3.5 that includes language packs

A little while ago, I posted this item on my blog that describes a potential issue when installing the .NET Framework 3.5 on a non-English operating system. Over this past weekend, I noticed a related item on Aaron Ruckman's blog that I wanted to link
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Friday, January 18, 2008 4:42 PM

Link to Channel9 video about Windows Installer application compatibility issues on Windows Vista

A new Channel9 video has been posted that I wanted to link to here. The video is located at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=374129 , and in it, Robert Flaming discusses application compatibility issues that can affect Windows Installer -based
Posted by astebner | 7 Comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:25 PM

Some behind-the-scenes details about .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and 3.0 SP1 setup

Since the .NET Framework 3.5 shipped, I've written a few blog posts about some of the setup and deployment issues that can affect this product. Behind the scenes, the installer for the .NET Framework 3.5 has some architectural differences from previous
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Monday, January 14, 2008 5:27 PM

Link to more detailed notes about changes in the weekly WiX build

Over the weekend, I noticed a couple of posts on Bob Arnson's blog that I wanted to link to here. Bob indicated in this post that he was going to start publishing more detailed information about the changes included in each weekly build of WiX . For those
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 9:02 PM

Web Authoring Component can fail during VS 2008 setup if Program Files has a trailing backslash

I heard from a customer who ran into an interesting issue during Visual Studio 2008 setup that I hadn't seen until now. I wanted to post a description of the issue, how we diagnosed it and how to work around the issue in case anyone else runs into a similar
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:24 PM

How the full install packages for the .NET Framework 3.0 and the .NET Framework 3.5 differ

Question: When the .NET Framework 3.0 shipped, 3 packages were made available for download - a 2.8 megabyte web download bootstrapper , an approximately 50 megabyte full install package for x86 processor architectures and an approximately 90 megabyte
Posted by astebner | 7 Comments
Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:04 PM

Votive in WiX v3.0 now supports Visual Studio 2008

Since Visual Studio 2008 shipped last November, I have been asked a few times via my blog about if/when the Votive Visual Studio add-in that is a part of the WiX toolset will support integrating into VS 2008. It was not very well publicized initially,
Posted by astebner | 6 Comments
Monday, January 07, 2008 5:46 PM

Why XNA Game Studio 2.0 setup switched from using WiX v2.0 to using WiX v3.0

The MSIs for the XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 and 1.0 Refresh releases were created using WiX v2.0 . The MSIs for the recently released XNA Game Studio 2.0 product were created with a recent build of WiX v3.0 . The decision to move from WiX v2.0 to v3.0
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:17 PM

Link to .NET Framework 3.5 readme with known installation issues

I often receive emails and blog comments from customers who are having trouble installing the .NET Framework 3.5 . Many of the issues that I have been asked about are documented in various places but are unfortunately hard to find with some web searches.
Posted by astebner | 11 Comments
 
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