Peter Marcu's Blog

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Currently, VS fails to launch after Vista build to build upgrades. A message box is displayed that says: "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect" This is caused because the upgrade does not yet handle the...

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Has anyone noticed that the standard greetings on voicemails are getting longer and longer? What happened to the good old days when voicemail greetings were like this: You have reached "XXX-XXX-XXXX". Please leave a message. [BEEP!] This is an example...

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Last night, everything came together and the changes to add binary delta patch support to WiX 3.0 went in. The feature is minimally documented but the schema and docs have descriptions of the new elements and attributes. I hope to get time to provide...

Thanks to everyone that gave feedback both on my blog and through other forums about .NET Framework installs. Beta2 just got released on MSDN so I thought I’d take this opportunity to talk a little about the stuff we have done to improve the installation...

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There have been many problems recently with installation from the media that was handed out at the PDC and in various other places. One problem is caused by the disk label being burned incorrectly (VS install will fail). A second issue occurs during the...

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In the world of blogs, most people blog about their personal life and experiences. Around here (at Microsoft) many people blog about work. On this blog I plan to have articles about me, my experiences, my work, as well as articles about various technology...

As part of the Visual Studio Team System setup, we are using a System Health Check tool to verify that all the servers involved in the setup are conifugured properly and are in a good state. The System Health Check tool uses WMI to query remote servers...

This post is a follow-up to Rob Mensching's " Visual Studio ships the WiX toolset " blog entry. One of the key tenets WiX development is operating under is to make all changes available to both community WiX as well as "Rosario" WiX. (They actually...

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Although we went to great lengths to reduce the number of reboots required by setup, there were still a few that we could not avoid. You will notice that reboots are almost completely a thing of the past for installs but repair/maintenance mode is a different...