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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:23 PM

Where to find .NET Framework 2.0 SP1, .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 setup log files

A while back, I posted a list of possible log files for .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 setup . Since then, I've realized that there are some sets of log files missing from that list, so I decided to create a separate blog post with information
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:10 PM

Link to information about new WixGamingExtension in WiX v3.0 for Game Explorer integration

Bob Arnson posted some information about a new feature in WiX v3.0 that I wanted to link to here as well to hopefully help raise visibility. In his post, located at http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/04/22/new-wix-feature-gaming-extension/ , he describes
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Monday, April 21, 2008 5:57 PM

Possible issue where .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 setup can fail and corrupt the .NET Framework 2.0

Last week, I started getting a larger than normal volume of emails from customers who ran into problems using applications that require the .NET Framework 2.0 and needed advice about how to get their systems back up and running. After investigating some
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 5:58 PM

How I resolved Windows Installer error code 2738 on Vista while running light.exe from WiX v3.0

Recently, while attempting to build a Japanese MSI using WiX v3.0 , I received an error message that looked like the following: light.exe : error LGHT0217 : An unexpected external UI message was received: ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:24 AM

Link to information about a new WiX custom action to create Internet shortcuts

Bob Arnson has posted some information on his blog about a new feature he has added to WiX 3.0 that I wanted to link to here. In his post at http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/03/18/new-wix-feature-internet-shortcuts/ , Bob describes the Internet shortcut
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:52 PM

Knowledge base article describing how to extract .msu files and automate installing them

The .NET Framework 3.5 installs service packs for the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 behind the scenes as prerequisites. On Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 are installed as OS components, which means that the 2.0 and
Posted by astebner | 1 Comments
Friday, March 07, 2008 4:54 PM

Updated: what to do if other .NET Framework setup troubleshooting steps do not help

A while back, I posted a set of instructions that can be used to try to resolve .NET Framework installation issues in case other troubleshooting steps listed on my blog, in knowledge base articles or elsewhere do not work. Those steps are out of date
Posted by astebner | 10 Comments
Monday, March 03, 2008 5:38 PM

Draft version of a new .NET Framework setup verification tool available for download

A while ago, I published a .NET Framework setup verification tool that can be run to provide a sanity check of the install state of the .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 on a system. However, there are some limitations in that tool: It does not support
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:18 PM

Scenarios where enabling Windows Installer verbose logging does not appear to work

A while back, I posted a list of instructions that can be used to enable Windows Installer verbose logging in order to troubleshoot MSI-based setup issues. Since then, some people have tried to follow those instructions in order to gather Visual Studio
Posted by astebner | 2 Comments
Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:19 PM

Link to info about a new feature in WiX v3.0 to globally set the default compression level

Bob Arnson recently posted some information about a new feature he contributed to the WiX toolset that I wanted to link to here. This feature allows you to pass a new switch named -dcl to the WiX linker (light.exe) to specify a default compression level
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Friday, January 25, 2008 5:05 PM

.NET Framework 3.5 deployment guides have been published on MSDN

The official deployment guides for system administrators and application developers have been posted on MSDN, and I wanted to provide links here to help raise visibility for them. Here they are along with some additional information about what is contained
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Friday, January 18, 2008 4:42 PM

Link to Channel9 video about Windows Installer application compatibility issues on Windows Vista

A new Channel9 video has been posted that I wanted to link to here. The video is located at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=374129 , and in it, Robert Flaming discusses application compatibility issues that can affect Windows Installer -based
Posted by astebner | 7 Comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:25 PM

Some behind-the-scenes details about .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and 3.0 SP1 setup

Since the .NET Framework 3.5 shipped, I've written a few blog posts about some of the setup and deployment issues that can affect this product. Behind the scenes, the installer for the .NET Framework 3.5 has some architectural differences from previous
Posted by astebner | 9 Comments
Monday, January 14, 2008 5:27 PM

Link to more detailed notes about changes in the weekly WiX build

Over the weekend, I noticed a couple of posts on Bob Arnson's blog that I wanted to link to here. Bob indicated in this post that he was going to start publishing more detailed information about the changes included in each weekly build of WiX . For those
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Monday, January 07, 2008 5:46 PM

Why XNA Game Studio 2.0 setup switched from using WiX v2.0 to using WiX v3.0

The MSIs for the XNA Game Studio Express 1.0 and 1.0 Refresh releases were created using WiX v2.0 . The MSIs for the recently released XNA Game Studio 2.0 product were created with a recent build of WiX v3.0 . The decision to move from WiX v2.0 to v3.0
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