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Visual Studio 2010 IDE fails to launch due to improper installation of Service Pack1

Posted over 1 year ago

by Sarat Bade
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Only some of the MS VS2010 products on this computer have been upgraded to SP1. None will work correctly until all have been updated. To upgrade, close VS products and then install MS VS2010 SP1 which you can download here. If setup starts in Maintenance...
Microsoft Visual Studio/.Net Framework Setup & Deployment Tips & Tricks

Setup Project failing with the error message -- "XBLK LD4.dll" failed to register. HRESULT -2147024770”

Posted over 1 year ago

by Sarat Bade
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Problem Description : Installation of Setup Project created in Visual Studio is failing with the error message “Windows error log does not capture much. Module "XBLK LD4.dll" failed to register. HRESULT -2147024770”. Resolution : It is...
Microsoft Visual Studio/.Net Framework Setup & Deployment Tips & Tricks

“No valid sequence could be found for the set of patches”

Posted over 1 year ago

by Sarat Bade
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Problem Description: Installation of the patch is failing with the error message “No valid sequence could be found for the set of patches”. Entry in the log files: MSI (c) (00:38) [03:21:20:722]: Note: 1: 2262 2: MsiPatchSequence 3:...
Microsoft Visual Studio/.Net Framework Setup & Deployment Tips & Tricks

Major upgrade for the setup project created in visual studio is not replacing the older files

Posted over 1 year ago

by Sarat Bade
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Problem Description: Major upgrade for the setup project created in visual studio is not replacing the older files. I am using an example to explain this issue in a better way: Using Visual Studio created a Setup Project for an application and...
Microsoft Visual Studio/.Net Framework Setup & Deployment Tips & Tricks

Visual Studio 2010 fails to install on a 64bit OS

Posted over 1 year ago

by Sarat Bade
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Visual Studio 2010 fails with the following error: Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express Prerequisites x64 - ENU -- Error 1719.The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode,...
Microsoft Visual Studio/.Net Framework Setup & Deployment Tips & Tricks

Installation of Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable fails if Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable is already present in the system

Posted over 1 year ago

by Sarat Bade
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If we have Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable installed on the machine and if we try to install Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable, it will fail. With the previous versions of Visual C++ redistributable installations (VC++ 2008, VC++ 2005…,) we could...
Microsoft Visual Studio/.Net Framework Setup & Deployment Tips & Tricks

'Installation of VS2010 or VS2008 failing on the first component (eg Visual Studio 2010 64 bit prerequisites) with error 1320'

Posted over 1 year ago

by Sarat Bade
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ISSUE DESCRIPTION: Installation of VS2010/VS2008 failing on the first component (eg. Visual Studio 2010 64 bit prerequisites ) with the following error message- ‘Error 1320.The specified path is too long: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual...
Microsoft Visual Studio/.Net Framework Setup & Deployment Tips & Tricks

You may receive Msi API Error 80004005 when running update syntax on a msi table using WiRunSQL.vbs script.

Posted over 1 year ago

by Sarat Bade
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Description: When you are referring to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa368562(v=vs.85).aspx , and browsing through the examples, you may find that while rest of the commands works as mentioned in the msdn link, the update...