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

    While working on a customer case involving a Windows installer based package, we came across an interesting issue that was preventing the installation of the MSI package on a particular computer. The setup failed with the following error...

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Unable to install .NET Framework 4.0. SYMTOMPS : Installation of .Net framework 4.0 fails just after the extraction process finishes. Entry in the Log files: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ...

Issue : Unable to add Entity data model to a Visual Studio project. While adding the Entity data model to your Visual Studio project, you may get the following error message: Could not resolve mscorlib for target framework '.NETFramework,Version=v4...

ISSUE DESCRIPTION: The installation of the Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010 fails without any explicit (UI) error message, creating among other logs files, a log file named similar to ‘ Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1_20120703_080910091...

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 file NDP40...

While Installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package ATL Security Update ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11895 ), you may receive the below error message: Error 1935.An error occurred during the...