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Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:59 PM

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

I posted some sample code a while back to demonstrate how to detect whether or not each version of the .NET Framework is installed, and if so, whether any service packs are installed.  I only posted the source code for the samples.  Since then,
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
Friday, January 30, 2009 6:58 PM

Japanese documentation for XNA Game Studio 3.0 now available for download

Today, the XNA Game Studio team released a Japanese version of the XNA Game Studio 3.0 documentation.  You can download the installer for this documentation from this location .  It can be installed on any system that has Visual C# 2008 Express
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Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:44 PM

New version of XNA Game Studio Connect will be available soon

My colleague Michael Klucher posted some information on his blog today about an upcoming update that will be available soon for the XNA Game Studio Connect application. XNA Game Studio Connect is the component that you run on an Xbox 360 in order to deploy,
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:05 PM

Mailbag: How to detect the presence of the Visual C++ 9.0 runtime redistributable package

Question: I saw a couple of previous blog posts that you wrote about how to detect the presence of the Visual C++ 2005 runtime files and the Visual C++ 2005 SP1 runtime files . I am creating an installer that requires the Visual C++ 2008 runtime files.
Posted by astebner | 8 Comments
Sunday, January 25, 2009 9:48 PM

Steps to install XNA Game Studio 2.0 and 3.0 without using the setup bootstrapper

Recently, we've heard from a few people via the Creators Club forums who have had trouble getting XNA Game Studio setup to run correctly. In a few cases, such as in this forum post , the setup program (named bootstrapper.exe) will crash shortly after
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:34 PM

Links to standalone .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 core and language pack installer packages

The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 was released last fall along with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 . The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installs the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and the .NET Framework 3.0 SP2 behind the scenes as prerequisites. Initially, the only way to get the
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Sunday, January 18, 2009 12:56 PM

Windows Installer 5.0 support now available in WiX v3.0

Windows Installer 5.0 will be included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 .  A beta version of the Windows 7 SDK was released last week to go along with the beta of Windows 7.  Bob Arnson recently announced on his blog that WiX v3.0 now
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:08 PM

Link to information about a tool to create custom game project templates in XNA Game Studio 3.0

Over the holidays, Stephen Styrchak wrote a tool to automate the process of exporting an XNA Game Studio 3.0 game project to a project template, and I wanted to link to some information about this tool to help raise awareness about it. The built-in Visual
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Friday, January 09, 2009 5:23 PM

Steps that might help fix Windows Update errors and a blank Windows Features dialog in Windows Vista

Over the holidays, I was asked by a friend to look at a problem they were running into on their Windows Vista system. They were unable to connect to Windows Update and check for updates and received a cryptic error message. After a few minutes of poking
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Monday, January 05, 2009 1:29 PM

Online WiX 3.0 help documentation now available on the WiX SourceForge site

As mentioned in the release notes for the WiX v3.0.4827.0 build, Bob Arnson has done some work to enable publishing of an online version of the WiX v3.0 documentation on the WiX SourceForge site . You can access the online WiX v3.0 help documentation
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