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Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:02 PM

Updated sample code that supports detection of .NET Framework 4

I have posted updated versions of the .NET Framework detection code that I have previously written about on my blog that now support detecting the install state of the .NET Framework 4 client and full products.  In addition, I decided to create a
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:18 PM

Sample code to detect .NET Framework install state and service pack level

Introduction Many installers and applications require that one or more versions of the .NET Framework be installed on the system in order to be able to install and function correctly. This article provides sample C++ code that can be used in a setup program
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:14 PM

Votive support for Visual Studio 2010 beta has been added to WiX v3.5

As Bob Arnson recently noted , the WiX virtual team has been working on getting initial builds of WiX v3.5 posted to the SourceForge site .  The build from last week, 3.5.0605.0 , includes a couple of big new features contributed by some folks on
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Monday, April 27, 2009 6:04 PM

Links to information about WiX v3.0 and v3.5 schedules and roadmaps

Rob Mensching recently posted an item on his blog indicating that the WiX toolset will not be shipping in Visual Studio 2010 as originally planned .  In a follow-up post, he outlined a proposed roadmap for WiX v3.0 and v3.5 .  To briefly summarize
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:24 PM

Silent install, repair and uninstall command lines for each version of the .NET Framework

I often get asked about how to perform silent and unattended installs for various versions of the .NET Framework.  In order to hopefully make things easier to find going forward, I decided to create a single blog post with information about silent
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Monday, April 13, 2009 5:15 PM

Creating an MSI-based installer for an XNA Game Studio game that integrates with Windows Game Explorer

I’ve previously written a few posts about how to get started with Windows game deployment for games created with XNA Game Studio 3.0: Introduction to Windows game deployment features in XNA Game Studio 3.0 Creating an MSI-based installer for the XNA Game
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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
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
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
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 | 5 Comments
Monday, February 23, 2009 7:18 PM

Updated .NET Framework setup verification tool with product filtering is now available

Over the weekend, I posted an updated version of the .NET Framework setup verification tool that contains a few behavior changes that I wanted to describe here. I have also updated the .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool User's Guide to reflect these
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Friday, February 20, 2009 5:20 PM

Possible issues with the Visual Studio 2008 bootstrapper and how to work around them

A while back, I posted a set of steps that you can use to create an MSI with WiX and combine it with a Visual Studio setup.exe bootstrapper to create an installer that can chain prerequisites and then install the MSI. Since then, I've gotten a couple
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 5:27 PM

Creating an administrative install point for the .NET Framework 3.0 SP2

A while back, I posted some instructions that can be used to create an administrative install point for the .NET Framework 3.0 SP1. Since then, the .NET Framework 3.0 SP2 has been released (it is required in order to install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:40 AM

Creating an administrative install point for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2

A while back, I posted some instructions that can be used to create an administrative install point for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1. Since then, the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 has been released (it is required in order to install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Posted by astebner | 4 Comments
Friday, February 06, 2009 7:24 PM

Possible solution for error 25015 with data error (cyclic redundancy check) during .NET Framework 2.0 setup

I have heard from a few people who have run into error code 25015 with a data error (cyclic redundancy check) message while trying to install the .NET Framework 2.0, 2.0 SP1 or 2.0 SP2.  This error can also occur during .NET Framework 3.0, 3.5 or
Posted by astebner | 2 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 | 6 Comments
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