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

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JeroenV — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:27:33 GMT

I've used this tool before to check if a certain version of .NET was installed on my system: http://www.asoft.be/prod_netver.html

It is very easy for users to find out if they have a particular version, and if even provides links to the download site of the particular version if it's needed to install.

For the .NET developers they allow you to distribute it along with their tools.

My 2cts

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astebner — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:35:02 GMT

Hi JeroenV - Thanks for sending the link to this utility. I can't tell how in-depth this tool goes in checking the install state of the .NET Framework though.

I have run into cases in the past where the registry value that is officially documented as the way to detect the .NET Framework install state exists, yet something is wrong with the install and it doesn't work correctly. That is the type of scenario I was targeting when I created the verification tool described in this blog post.

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lrios80 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:26:59 GMT

Does this verification tool check the integrity of the .NET files (check to see if any files might be corrupted), or does it only check if the files are installed?

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astebner — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:21:39 GMT

Hi Lrios80 - Currently, the tool only checks for the existence of files in specified locations. I am open to suggestions regarding checking for corruption. The previous version of the tool contained some checksum information that it would compute and compare against, but that logic doesn't work if any service packs or hotfixes are installed for the .NET Framework. Do you know of any other ways to check for file corruption from a tool like this?

Also, have you run into cases where files have gotten corrupted for the .NET Framework? If so, do you have any more information about how that happened and how you figured out the root cause?

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lrios80 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:36:06 GMT

I've run into some cases where programs would not load, so .NET had to be uninstalled then reinstalled or repaired before it would work. The only time I've been able to find a specific cause for it was when SP1 for .NET 2.0 was downloaded and installed and the installation failed. (I'm not sure if this would be file corruption or if some files were removed when SP1 tried to install and then were not restored when the installation failed.) .NET 2.0 had to be completely uninstalled then reinstalled.

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astebner — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:30:50 GMT

Hi Lrios80 - Thanks for providing more details about this scenario. I'll keep an eye out and see if I run into any similar .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 failures and check out the exact state of the files that are a part of the .NET Framework in that case. If you run into this again, can you also try out the new verification tool and see if it reports any errors that might help narrow this down further?

It would also help if you could send me any log files you have from one of these failures - the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 creates a verbose log named %temp%\dd_net_framework*.txt during installation. You can send the log to Aaron.Stebner (at) microsoft (dot) com.

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szilvaa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:07:58 GMT

Regarding how you could check the integrity of the files: could you verify the digital signature? I suppose hotfixes keep that up to date.

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astebner — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:41:23 GMT

Hi Szilvaa - Yes, I think that would help for files that are digitally signed. I'm not sure it fully guarantees that the files are not corrupt, but it would be a step in the right direction. The trick there is that not all files in the .NET Framework are digitally signed, so the tool would need to keep track of which ones are and which ones aren't. I'll look into options for doing something like this in the future.

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elguido — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:03:06 GMT

Hi Aaron

Is there a nice way to use your tool to scan dotnet installs across a LAN (assuming authentication requirement has been met)?

Currently the best we have is the prospect of rclienting and running against network share and collating on network share.

Your thoughts would be most welcome.

Cheers,

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astebner — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:54:14 GMT

Hi Elguido - This verification tool is designed to run on the local computer and return results from that computer. It doesn't support running remotely across a network. What I'd suggest doing here is scheduling some kind of job/task to run the tool on the machines on your network, and then collect the logs it creates and upload them to a network share for centralized analysis. Hopefully this will be feasible in your scenario.

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elguido — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:32:17 GMT

That could work for us, thanks Aaron.

The only reason I asked is your method involves loads of signoffs and the like, the approach I'm heading from is something that the frontline support staff (of which I am a member) can organize on their own users.

If there is any scope to handle UNCs that'd be excellent?

Cheers,

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jschlager — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:38:19 GMT

Hi Aaron,

I'm trying to use the draft version of your tool in silent mode on my local machine. The interactive version is working fine, but I had no success using the /p switch so far. I've used the syntax from the included readme.txt and after a call to

./netfx_setupverifier.exe /q:a /c:"setupverifier.exe /p .NET Framework 1.1"

the program quits without any noticeable action and without setting the exit code. Even if I extract the files from the archive and call

./setupverifier /e "d:\error.txt" /l "d:\log.txt" /p ".NET Framework 1.1"

nothing happens. I've tried both with and without quotes, using cmd32 and the windows power shell and would appreciate any hints...

Cheers,

Jörg

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astebner — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:10:54 GMT

Hi Jschlager - There is information about how to run the verification tool in silent mode in the user's guide at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/pages/8999004.aspx. I have tried the following command line and it works fine:

netfx_setupverifier.exe /q:a /c:"setupverifier.exe /p .NET Framework 1.1"

You need to make sure the EXE is in the exact path that you're using for your command line. Also, in silent mode, the program doesn't display any progress UI during verification, so you need to look at the log files it produces to determine exactly what it is doing.

I'm not sure what the ./ syntax is that you listed before the names of the EXEs that you're running, but that could be the problem here. It gives me an error if I try to do that on my system, but that isn't being caused by the verification tool - I can't run any command with syntax like that.

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jschlager — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:36:30 GMT

Hi,

the syntax I've posted is for calling the executable from the windows power shell. I've tried with cmd32 and without the "./" part, but had no success.

The setupverifier does not do anything on my system when started in silent mode. There is no logfile or errorfile, the executable just returns immediately without setting the exit code.

BTW, I'm using a modified MUI version of Windows XP SP2, currently with the German language packs.

Again, the interactive version is working fine.

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astebner — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:11:47 GMT

Hi Jschlager - I'm not sure what to suggest here. The command line syntax documented in the users guide consistently works for me on all systems that I've ever tried the tool on. Can you post a screenshot that shows the exact command line you're using and the exact way that you're launching it (is it a cmd prompt, or a batch file or something else for example?)

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jamieleecho — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:15:02 GMT

Thank you for all of our insights into .NET.

I gave this a try on my Windows XP SP2 laptop and the UI works well.

Unfortunately, when I use the command line mode and enter bogus things like:

netfx_setupverifier.exe /q:a /c:"setupverifier.exe /p .NET Framework 10.1"

netfx_setupverifier always returns 0. The internal setupverifier seems to be doing the right thing according to the log, but it seems that the netfx_setupverifier is hardcoded to always return 0.

I extracted the setupverifier program and ran it separately and it indeed is returning the expected error - so something seems to be getting lost between the two. In this case, my command line would look like:

setupverifier.exe /p .NET Framework 10.1

Am I doing anything wrong here?

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astebner — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:21:18 GMT

Hi Jamieleecho - The .NET Framework setup verification tool is a Windows application, not a console application. This means that it returns the appropriate error code to the calling process in this type of scenario, but it does not update the %errorlevel% environment veriable that it sounds like you're checking in your scenario. You'll need to have your calling process check the return code and/or manually set the errorlevel to the return code of the verification tool if you need it to work the way you're describing.

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SPACESHIP — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:03:14 GMT

Hi, I used your program to check if .net framework was correctly installed on a win98 machine - it reported me several missing dll files and following errors:

Error: GetProcAdress failed for SHGetFolderPath with error code 127

Error: Unable to ind an ExecutablePath value for custom action 'Custom Action - .NET framework 2.0 test application', exiting now

I guess these two are connected somehow, but I dont know how to fix it. There is already the shfolder.dll in windows\system\ what else do I need to do?

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astebner — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:06:29 GMT

Hi Spaceship - To fix the missing files, I'd suggest uninstalling and re-installing the version(s) of the .NET Framework that you have installed on your system. The steps at http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2008/03/07/8108332.aspx might be helpful too if you run into any uninstall issues.

For those 2 errors in the verification tool, could you please upload your verification tool log files to a file server (such as http://skydrive.live.com) and then reply back with a link to the server location so I can take a look and see if I can figure out why the tool is reporting those errors on your system?

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

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