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Monday, November 16, 2009 6:41 PM

WiX v3.5 now includes support for Visual Studio 2010 beta 2

As previously posted on Rob Mensching’s blog and Bob Arnson’s blog , builds of WiX v3.5 starting with the 3.5.1030.0 build include support for Visual Studio 2010 beta 2.  Here are some highlights: Extension Manager integration – you can download
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Friday, October 23, 2009 1:01 PM

Suggestions for resolving installation errors for .NET Framework security update MS09-061

I have heard from several people over the past week or so who have had problems getting the recently released .NET Framework security update (MS09-061) to install correctly on their system when it is offered to them by Windows Update or Microsoft Update. 
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:34 PM

Link to information about .NET Framework 4 setup and deployment improvements

Peter Marcu has posted some detailed information about improvements that have been made to the setup and deployment process for the .NET Framework 4 starting with the recently released .NET Framework 4 beta 2 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 .  The
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:24 AM

Diagnosing and resolving 1935 errors for Win32 assemblies that occur on Windows Vista and later

Introduction 1935 errors can occur during an MSI-based installation while installing .NET assemblies or Win32 assemblies.  Most of the workarounds that can be found on blogs and forums (including all of the information in my 1935 error troubleshooting
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Monday, September 28, 2009 5:59 PM

Mailbag: How to manage reboots when installing multiple versions of the .NET Framework

Question: I am planning a network deployment of the .NET Framework, and I need to deploy all versions from 1.0 through 3.5 SP1 if any are missing on each of the computers on the network.  I have 2 questions related to reboots: Is it possible to install
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Monday, July 27, 2009 11:27 AM

Updated versions of .NET Framework cleanup and verification tools with Windows 7 support

Over the past week or so, I’ve posted updated versions of both the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool and the .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool.  The primary reason for the updates is to address some specific problems using the tools on Windows 7. 
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:55 PM

Link to information about upgrading WiX v2.0 projects to WiX v3.0

Now that WiX v3.0 has officially released , you may want to start looking at upgrading your existing setup authoring from WiX v2.0 to WiX v3.0 to take advantage of some of the new WiX v3.0 features.  There are some breaking changes in v3.0, so you
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Monday, July 06, 2009 9:13 AM

Final version of WiX v3.0 now available for download

Over this past weekend, the 3.0.5419 build of WiX v3.0 was declared the final production build.  If you are using any builds of WiX v3.0 for your projects, I strongly encourage you to update to the 3.0.5419 build at this time. Here is some additional
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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
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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
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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
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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 runtime
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