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Friday, August 29, 2008 5:55 PM

Link to .NET Framework Cleanup Tool User's Guide

I have posted several items on my blog in the past about the .NET Framework cleanup tool.  The information has ended up becoming more scattered and difficult to find over time, so I decided to create a centralized introductory topic. You can find
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Monday, August 25, 2008 6:34 PM

Issue installing the .NET Framework 3.5 or 3.5 SP1 on checked or pre-release builds of Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

I have heard from a couple of customers who ran into issues installing the .NET Framework 3.5 and/or the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on one of the following OS types: Checked (also known as debug) builds of Windows Vista and/or Windows Server 2008 Pre-release
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Monday, August 18, 2008 5:57 PM

Mailbag: How to create a Visual Studio project to compile the sample .NET Framework detection code

Question: I have downloaded both versions of the sample .NET Framework version detection code (described here and here ), and I am trying to compile it to test it out on my system. However, I am running into issues trying to create a Visual Studio project
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Friday, August 15, 2008 8:55 AM

Link to pre-order Sara Ford's Microsoft Visual Studio Tips book and help Katrina survivors

Sara Ford posted an item on her blog this week that I want to link to here to hopefully help raise visibility. She has written a book called Microsoft Visual Studio Tips that compiles a collection of items from the Visual Studio tip of the day series
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2008 5:37 PM

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 download and troubleshooting links

As noted earlier today in this post on Soma's blog , the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 have been released and are now available for download. Here is a collection of useful links to help you learn more about these service pack releases,
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
Sunday, August 10, 2008 3:47 PM

Enabling in-place assembly upgrades using Windows Installer and WiX

Recently, I tried to create a Windows Installer major upgrade for an MSI that I was working on.  This MSI installs assemblies to the GAC and I did not want to change the assembly version for these assemblies in the new MSI.  As a result, I scheduled
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Friday, August 08, 2008 1:56 PM

Possible cause of and workaround for XNA Game Studio Device Center crashes

We have heard from some customers about problems while using the XNA Game Studio Device Center to add Xbox 360 devices in XNA Game Studio 2.0 and to add Xbox 360 devices and Zune devices in the XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP (for example, the Connect bugs that
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Thursday, August 07, 2008 8:01 PM

Added Windows LIVE Web page translator to my blog for quick automatic translations of posts

Earlier this week, a friend of mine let me know about the Windows LIVE Web page translator . I decided to add the translator tool to my blog since it only requires adding a small script block to my main blog page. You can now find the translator tool
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
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Friday, August 01, 2008 6:16 PM

How to uninstall the components of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Question: As described in this blog post , I have been evaluating the beta of the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. I ran into some issues running my application on a system with this software installed, so I need to uninstall it. I have
Posted by astebner | 15 Comments
 
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