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

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...

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 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 in the...

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...