While Installing .Net Framework 2.0, you may receive the following error "25007.Error occurred while initializing fusion. Setup could not load fusion with LoadLibraryShim(). Error: The handle is invalid." From the verbose log: 07/09/10 12:59:23...

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 would receive the below error message while running a ClickOnce bootstrapper created using Visual Studio 2012 on Windows XP systems. Clickonce bootstrapper engine (setup.exe) that was shipped with Visual Studio 2012 is NOT compatible...

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 an...

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...

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...

While trying to open ASP.Net web pages in Design view, Visual Studio 2008 IDE Hangs To solve the problem in designer, follow the steps mentioned below: 1) Uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component. 2) Reinstall the Microsoft Visual Studio...

regcap.exe crashes while building a setup project in Visual Studio 2008 I launched the devenv.exe in the debugger ( http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.Mspx ) and took a crash dump ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350 ) while...

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 Updates/Patches might fail during installation with the following error message "Generic trust failure." As per the install failure log:   c:\4048b65f65ff4dcceb\NDP40-KB2656405.msp - Signature verification for...

While launching Visual Studio 2012/2010 IDE, you might receive the below error message or VS IDE may just crash without any error message. I launched the devenv.exe in the debugger ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463009 ) and took...

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 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...

While running a ClickOnce 4.5 application, you may receive the below error message:   Once you click on D etails… button, it will popup the log file where you can find the below exception: Following failure messages were detected:   + Exception...

.Net Framework 1.1 installation fails with an error message “Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 -- This setup is not supported on 64-bit versions of Windows XP” on a Windows 2003 x64 system. After reviewing the Msi log, I found that it fails while executing...

While trying to install software updates, perform software uninstalls or repair actions on some or all application that are installed on the computer. An error similar to the following may be reported to the user: “The installation source for this product...

While trying to run the .Net Framework 3.5/2.0 setup on a Windows 2003 x86 system, it just crashes immedaitely with the following error message: “Setup.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close” I launched the setup.exe in the debugger ( http:...

Visual Studio 2010 fails on a Windows XP SP3 system with the following error message: "DDSet_Error: Internal error: 2" After reviewing the MSI log, I found that the failure occurs while executing "ReserveHttp" custom Action: MSI (s) (7C:EC) [21...

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...

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"...

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:...

Resolution: You would also need to install C# along with VC++ Repro Steps ========== Install Visual Studio 2008 Standard with only C++ Launch VS 2008 IDE Create any kind of new C++ project Build the project You will receive the following error message...

ClickOnce applications that are hosted online are restricted in the amount of space they can occupy by a quota that constrains the size of the ClickOnce cache. The cache size applies to the entire user's online applications; a single partially-trusted...

In this scenario we want to use the .net assembly on the target machine without having access to the GAC and call it in VBA using COM Interop.   In order to accomplish this we will need to use regasm.exe utility ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us...

When you install .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 on a Win XP / Win 2003 system, it deletes a folder called "Xamlviewer" located in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.0\WPF. The "Xamlviewer" folder contains three xaml files. The XamlViewer...

HelpLibAgent.exe crashes while accessing the help feature in Visual Studio 2010 on a Windows 7system. Based on the app evt log I found the following stack trace:   .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.4927 - Profiling flag set, but required environment...