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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
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Suggestions for resolving installation errors for .NET Framework security update MS09-061
Link to information about .NET Framework 4 setup and deployment improvements
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Diagnosing and resolving 1935 errors for Win32 assemblies that occur on Windows Vista and later
Mailbag: How to manage reboots when installing multiple versions of the .NET Framework
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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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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, 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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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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Sunday, January 18, 2009 12:56 PM
Windows Installer 5.0 support now available in WiX v3.0
Windows Installer 5.0 will be included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 . A beta version of the Windows 7 SDK was released last week to go along with the beta of Windows 7. Bob Arnson recently announced on his blog that WiX v3.0 now
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Monday, January 05, 2009 1:29 PM
Online WiX 3.0 help documentation now available on the WiX SourceForge site
As mentioned in the release notes for the WiX v3.0.4827.0 build, Bob Arnson has done some work to enable publishing of an online version of the WiX v3.0 documentation on the WiX SourceForge site . You can access the online WiX v3.0 help documentation
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:59 PM
How to implement, build and test a Windows Installer major upgrade in WiX v3.0
When I create an MSI-based installer, one of the things I typically include in the setup authoring is some logic to allow me to implement Windows Installer major upgrades if/when I need to release a new version of the MSI in the future. I typically include
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Friday, December 05, 2008 7:42 PM
WiX v3.0.4805.0 build is declared an official beta build
Last week, Rob Mensching and Bob Arnson posted some information on their blogs about the upcoming declaration of a beta build of WiX v3.0 in preparation for locking down WiX v3.0 to get it ready to ship in Visual Studio 2010 (an older 3.0 build is currently
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Monday, November 17, 2008 7:09 PM
Creating an MSI-based installer for the XNA Game Studio 3.0 platformer starter kit
I previously wrote an introductory post describing Windows game deployment features that are a part of XNA Game Studio 3.0 . That post focuses mostly on ClickOnce publishing and the Visual Studio bootstrapper that can be used to create an installer to
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Sunday, October 19, 2008 11:53 AM
Mailbag: How to retain user-customized files during a Windows Installer major upgrade
Question: I have an application that installs some .config files that users can customize. I want to implement a Windows Installer major upgrade to install new versions of my application on systems that have an older version installed. During
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 7:25 PM
Naming an assembly incorrectly when creating an MSI can cause a 1935 error with HRESULT 0x80131047
Recently, I heard from a customer who was attempting to create an MSI-based installer using WiX v3.0 . They needed to install an assembly to the global assembly cache (GAC) in their installer, but when they attempted to run their MSI, the installation
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Sunday, August 10, 2008 3:47 PM
Enabling in-place assembly upgrades using Windows Installer and WiX
Recently, I tried to create a Windows Installer major upgrade for an MSI that I was working on. This MSI installs assemblies to the GAC and I did not want to change the assembly version for these assemblies in the new MSI. As a result, I scheduled
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:03 PM
How to use WiX to create an MSI-based installer that will install the DirectX 9.0 redistributable
As noted in the Highlights of WiX v3.0.4311.0 post on Bob Arnson's blog , Neil Enns recently contributed several how-to topics to the WiX v3.0 documentation. One of these how-to topics describes how to include DirectX 9.0c runtime files in an MSI-based
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Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:49 PM
Feature in Wix v3.0 to make it easier to test rollback custom actions
When authoring deferred custom actions (which are custom actions that change the system state) in an MSI, it is necessary to also provide an equivalent set of rollback custom actions to undo the system state change in case the MSI fails and rolls back.
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