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Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:56 PM

Mailbag: How to perform a silent install of the Visual C++ 2008 redistributable packages

Question: You previously posted a list of command line switches to perform silent and unattended installations of the Visual C++ 2005 runtime redistributable packages. How can I perform silent and unattended installations of the Visual C++ 2008 runtime
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:46 PM

GDC 2009: Announcing XNA Game Studio 3.1 and Dream-Build-Play 2009

As mentioned on the XNA team blog and this XNA Creators Club forum post , the XNA team made a few announcements today at GDC 2009 : 1. XNA Game Studio 3.1 Later this year, an updated version of XNA Game Studio will be released. It will contain the following
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:39 PM

GDC 2009: Grab a burger and meet some members of the XNA team Wednesday night

I was talking with Michael Klucher and a few other folks on the XNA team last week about things to do while we’re in San Francisco for GDC 2009 this week.  Most of us like to take advantage of the opportunity to visit In-N-Out Burger while we’re
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:40 PM

How to extract a .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1 patch and run it if the patch setup EXE crashes

Every once in a while, I hear from a customer who is trying to install a hotfix or service pack for the .NET Framework 1.0 or 1.1, but who encounters a crash when double-clicking the setup .exe for the hotfix or service pack.  In some of those cases,
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:36 PM

GDC 2009 is coming next week and I hope to see you there

Most people probably know that the 2009 Game Developers Conference ( GDC 2009 ) is coming up next week in San Francisco, California, USA. There will be two developer days next Monday and Tuesday (March 23 and 24, 2009), and the main conference will be
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:47 PM

Steps I use to narrow down an OS update installation failure on Windows Vista and higher

A while back, I wrote a blog post describing a specific error that can occur when trying to install the .NET Framework 3.5 or 3.5 SP1 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.  In that post, I talked at a high level about some of the steps I take
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
Monday, March 09, 2009 5:40 PM

My WinISP file server has been retired - please use my SkyDrive site instead

I have heard from several folks over the past couple of weeks who have had trouble downloading the tools and samples that I have posted on my old file server ( http://astebner.sts.winisp.net ). That site has been retired by the group that was hosting
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Friday, March 06, 2009 4:50 PM

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 setup will fail if it is run by a user account that starts with a # character

I was working with our product support team on an interesting .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installation failure earlier this week, and I wanted to describe the issue and options for working around it in case anyone else runs into similar issues in the future.
Posted by astebner | 7 Comments
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:32 PM

How to perform a silent repair and uninstall of the .NET Framework 3.5 and 3.5 SP1

Question: I have seen your blog posts that describe how to silently repair and uninstall the following versions of the .NET Framework: .NET Framework 1.0 .NET Framework 1.1 .NET Framework 2.0 .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and 3.0 SP1 .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:46 PM

Updated VS bootstrapper packages for .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and 3.0 SP2 with post-SP2 GDR included

This week, new Visual Studio 2008 bootstrapper packages were released for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and the .NET Framework 3.0 SP2.  These packages are updated versions of the packages released last fall that I described in this blog post . 
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
 
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