Microsoft Visual Studio/.Net Framework Setup & Deployment Tips & Tricks

We worked on an issue where launching help from within the Visual Studio IDE throws an error message "Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://MS.MSDNQTR.v90.en' is invalid". This message...

Unable to install Windows update (.Net Framework and Office updates). The installation hangs and you have to kill the process to get out of it. To resolve this issue we followed the following steps: - We took a processmon log when the install...

During the installation of .Net framework 3.5, you will see an error as shown below in the setup error log file. . As the installation of .Net framework 3.5 is dependent on .Net framework 3.0 and 2.0, you might see these kind of errors very frequently...

Unable to download files from MSDN subscription download site and getting an error : “Failed to initiate the download. An Error Has Occurred There was an error while trying to download the requested file and we cannot progress your request...

When you go to the Microsoft Update Catalog " http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx " and do a search on 959209 you get two downloads for x64 for Windows 2008. One is 27.5 MB in size and the other is 1.4 MB in size. When you download...