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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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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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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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Sunday, August 30, 2009 7:04 PM

Possible workarounds for project type is not supported by this installation error in XNA Game Studio

Note - my colleague Yuichi Ito has provided a Japanese version of the information in this blog post. You can find it at this location on his blog . Every so often, I hear from a user who has encountered an error like the following while trying to open
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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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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, 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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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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Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:26 PM

Using WiX 3.0 to create an MSI-based installer for Visual Studio project templates

A while back, I wrote a blog post where I introduced a set of Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 project templates that I created to supplement the ones that shipped in one of the earlier versions of the Windows Vista Media Center SDK.  I used WiX v3.0
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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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