When a user tries to publish a ClickOnce application after changing the user account password, it would fail with one of below error messages: “Cannot publish because a project failed to build.” “An error occurred while signing: Key not valid for use...

The recent release of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-025 (KB2656370) might fail on Windows XP/Windows 2003 systems. The patch may fail with an error message: “Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 -- Internal Error 2705. Directory”. In fact, if you try to repair...

You may find the below error message while launching a ClickOnce application: “Reference in the manifest does not match the identity of the downloaded assembly MyApp.exe.” Log snippet: ERROR SUMMARY Below is a summary of the errors,...

The recent release of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-100 KB2656353 might fail on Windows XP/Windows 2003 systems. The patch may fail with an error message: “Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 -- Internal Error 2705. Directory” In fact, if...

You might observe that files are not being upgraded after applying a small update or a minor upgrade patch. The upgrade log may not show the exact cause of the issue. After investigation, I found some component rule violation in the upgrade package. To...

  While publishing a ClickOnce application using Visual Studio 2010, it may fail with the following error message: Error 1 Cannot publish because a project failed to build.    Error 2 An error occurred while signing: SignTool.exe not...

While installing .Net Framework 3.5 / .Net Framework 2.0 /any other patches, it may fail with the following error message: DEBUG: Error 2769: Custom Action CA_InstallAssemblyDef.3643236F_FC70_11D3_A536_0090278A1BB8 did not close 2 MSIHANDLEs. From...

Recently MS11-049 (KB2251481) patch was re-released (9th August, 2011) and it is re-offered through Windows Update for the scenario where users have both Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and Visual Studio 2005 Premier Partner Edition SP1 installed on their systems...

  While installing .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 / .Net Framework 2.0 SP2, it may fail with the following error message: Error 25015.Failed to install assembly 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\IEExecRemote.dll' because of system error: Access...

  .Net Framework 4.0 fails on a Win 2003 system. From the MSI log, it fails while executing the Custom Action ExecSecureObjects and it rolls back. MSI (s) (B4:AC) [11:21:32:639]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=ExecServiceConfig,,) MSI (s) (B4:AC...

While installing a .Net Framework patch, it may fail with the following error message: DDSet_Error: Failed to install assembly 'c:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\System.Web.dll' because of system error: Access is denied. From the failure MSI...

Visual Studio(2005/2008/2010) SP1 Installation never completes and in the MSI log it shows the bellow information: MSI (s) (3C:D4) [20:10:57:165]: Executing op: ShortcutCreate(Name=0aszr6bc.s_v|Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger Folder,,,FileName=C:\Program...

While running a .Net 4.0 application, you find the below error message: --------------------------- MyApp.exe - .NET Framework Initialization Error --------------------------- To run this application, you first must install one of the following versions...

You may find that the installation of security update for microsoft visual studio 2010 (KB2455033) constantly fails. From the log I found the following information: MSI (s) (54:60) [16:31:43:796]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding ADDLOCAL property. Its value is...

While installing .Net Framework 4.0, you might encounter with the below error:   Installation failed with error code: (0x800B010B), "Generic trust failure” From the log snippet: [4/1/2011, 14:18:27]C:\11f6f1228c8fb51ff5\Windows6.0-KB956250-v6001...

Recently this patch MS11-028   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2484015 (msu update) was released and after applying the patch you may find issues such as MMC crashes on startup and couple of exceptions involving mscorwks.dll version 2.0.50727.5653...

We would receive the above error while removing KB976576 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976576 The exact repro steps are mentioned below: Install .Net framework 3.5 sp1 è .Net framework 4.0 and KB976576.Now try to remove KB976576. From the log it shows...

An application may crash with the following error message "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is in correct. Please see the application event log for more detail." In the Application Event Viewer log:...

After installing KB2416473, while launching MMC it may throw the following error:   Here is the complete workaround: 1) If 3.0 is installed ("C:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\Windows Communication Foundation\ServiceModelReg.exe"...

You may find slow down in system booting time after installing .NET Framework 4 client profile on a system and removing .NET Framework 4.0 client profile may resolve the issue. First you should check if there is an mscorsvw process that is taking a bunch...

You may receive an error "Could not load type 'System.Security.Authentication.ExtendedProtection.ExtendedProtectionPolicy'"  after you install the update KB976769v2. WCF service may stop working also. From the logs, we saw that one of the...

While calling a OpenFileDialog ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.openfiledialog.aspx ) via Installer class as a Custom Action in the Visual Studio Setup project, it just hangs there. When we attach a debugger we receive...

Based on the symptom and looking at the log files, I found that we might have installed a bad hotfix baseliner contained in KB952883 , which causes the subsequent updates (including 983583) to fail. This issue can be fixed by installing the hotfix KB975954...

The Patch KB 974417 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=491874d4-5eea-4545-9b7d-3861857c862e&displaylang=en might fail to install with an error message "The upgrade patch can not be installed by the windows installer service...

If you migrate a Setup project from Visual Studio 2008 to Visual Studio 2010 and set the property RemovePreviousVersion=True, The upgrade package removes the application folder once it is installed. This issue occurs because the Component GUID's are changed...