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Thursday, November 01, 2007 8:19 PM

Possible .NET Framework 3.5 installation failure caused by broken MSXML registration

The .NET Framework 3.5 can fail to install on a system where MSXML is not properly registered. There is a custom action that runs during .NET Framework 3.5 setup that tries to use some APIs in MSXML to modify some information in the web_mediumtrust.config
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:09 PM

Link to .NET Framework 3.0 release notes with known installation issues

I have gotten several questions from customers about how to resolve installation problems with the .NET Framework 3.0 since it was released last year. In many of these cases, the installation problems and options for workarounds were described in the
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Monday, September 17, 2007 5:54 PM

Possible problem launching Visual Studio 2008 setup within a Parallels 3.0 virtual image on a Mac

I heard of an interesting issue from a customer today via the email contact form on my blog, and I wanted to post it here in case anyone else runs into a similar issue. They saw a problem when launching Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 setup on a virtual Windows
Posted by astebner | 0 Comments
Friday, August 31, 2007 5:44 PM

Updated version of the .NET Framework cleanup tool that can remove the .NET Framework 3.5

I've posted an updated version of the .NET Framework cleanup tool that now contains an option to remove the .NET Framework 3.5 (in addition to 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0). I also added some additional information to be removed when uninstalling the .NET Framework
Posted by astebner | 11 Comments
Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:06 PM

.NET Framework 3.0 hotfix (KB932471) will fail to install if .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 is installed

Recently, we have been hearing reports from customers who have installed the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 and then visited Windows Update and were offered .NET Framework 3.0 hotfix KB932471 , but it continually fails to install. The .NET Framework 3.5 contains
Posted by astebner | 8 Comments
Monday, August 27, 2007 6:39 PM

Report VS 2008 or .NET Framework 3.5 beta installation issues directly to the setup team

I just noticed this post on Bret Grinslade's blog that I wanted to link to here to help raise visibility. In that post, Bret describes how to gather more information about any installation failures that you might encounter while installing a beta version
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Friday, August 24, 2007 2:49 PM

Possible causes of Windows Vista hotfix install failures

The .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 includes updates for the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0. Since the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 are installed as OS components on Windows Vista, the updates are delivered as Windows Vista hotfix packages. We have seen some issues
Posted by astebner | 7 Comments
Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:02 AM

Where to find a full .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 layout on a VS 2008 beta 2 DVD

Yesterday, I posted a set of instructions that can be used to download the components that make up the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 in order to create a network or CD-based install point that will not require any downloads during setup. As a reader pointed
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 5:21 PM

How to create an installable layout for the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2

A while back, I wrote a set of instructions that can be used to create a network install point for the Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions (because the only thing available for download is an ISO file that has to be burned to CD, or a web download bootstrapper
Posted by astebner | 14 Comments
Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:13 AM

Japanese .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 and VS 2008 beta 2 now available

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft released the beta 2 versions of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, and I posted all of the download links here . This week, Japanese versions of beta 2 have also been released for web download. Here are the
Posted by astebner | 3 Comments
Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:42 PM

Workarounds for some .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 install issues we have seen so far

Since the release of the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 a couple of weeks ago, we have run into a few installation issues that I wanted to let folks know about. The good news is that all of these issues will be fixed in time for the final release of the .NET
Posted by astebner | 5 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 12:40 PM

Possible issue using ASP.NET controls in VS 2008 beta 2

Description of this issue Since Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 were released, we have heard of a few issues related to using ASP.NET controls in the VS IDE after installing beta 2. The issues we have seen so far include the
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:21 PM

What to do if VS 2008 or .NET Framework 3.5 beta 2 asks for Windows XP SP2 on Windows Vista

I previously posted a description of a bug in VS 2008 beta 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 beta 1 setup that can cause setup to prompt you to install Windows XP SP2 when running setup on Windows Vista. That post includes a couple of workarounds that can be used
Posted by astebner | 8 Comments
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:28 AM

Tool to automatically collect and cab VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 setup log files

I wrote a post yesterday with a list of the names and locations of all of the log files produced during Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 setup. As you can see in that post, the list of possible log files is very long, and that makes it annoying
Posted by astebner | 17 Comments
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:33 PM

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 setup log files

The installers for the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 chain several different prerequisites and optional components behind the scenes. If one of these setups fails, there are numerous possible causes due to the number of packages being chained
Posted by astebner | 39 Comments
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