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Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 Troubleshooting Guide
.NET Framework Setup Troubleshooting and Technical Reference
How to Log a Bug for Visual Studio or .NET Framework Setup
Update Rollup 2 for Media Center 2005 Troubleshooting Guide
DUAScriptGen User's Guide
Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 Deployment Guide
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Suggestions for resolving installation errors for .NET Framework security update MS09-061
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Diagnosing and resolving 1935 errors for Win32 assemblies that occur on Windows Vista and later
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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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Monday, October 19, 2009 3:29 PM
Important uninstall instructions for migrating from the .NET Framework 4 and VS 2010 beta 1 to beta 2
As noted on Soma’s blog , the .NET Framework 4 beta 2 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 have been released today. If you previously had the .NET Framework 4 beta 1 and/or Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 installed, there are some very important uninstall instructions
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Monday, August 10, 2009 2:48 PM
Problem upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 if you have .NET Framework 4 beta 1 installed
Description of the issue There is an issue with the .NET Framework 4 beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 that can cause problems if you do the following: Install Windows Vista Install the .NET Framework 4 beta 1 (or Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 because
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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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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:57 PM
Links to download Japanese versions of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 beta 1
A couple of weeks ago, I posted links to English download locations for the .NET Framework 4 beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 beta. There are now Japanese versions of some of these products available for download, so I wanted to post those download
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Friday, May 29, 2009 8:48 PM
How to unblock installation of the .NET Framework 4 beta 1 on Windows XP Media Center and Tablet PC Editions
Question: I tried to install the .NET Framework 4 beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 on my Windows XP Media Center system. It fails to install with an error like the following: Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 cannot be installed because an incompatible
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:41 PM
Links to download Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 beta 1
As Soma announced on his blog earlier this week, Visual Studio 2010 beta 1 and the .NET Framework 4.0 beta 1 have shipped. You can check out this MSDN page and this post on Jason Zander’s blog for information about what is new in VS 2010.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:49 AM
Visual Studio 2010 CTP that includes WiX 3.0 support is now available for download
As a part of PDC 2008 , a community technology preview of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 has been released for you to download and try out. It is available via a Virtual PC image that can be downloaded from this location . As Rob Mensching
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