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

The recent release of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-100 KB2656353 might fail on Windows XP/Windows 2003 systems. The patch will fail with an error message: “Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 -- Internal Error 2705. Directory” In fact,...

Microsoft .NET Framework Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately. Configuration...

While working on a setup issue found that not only the Help > About screen can be changed but the splash screen issue can also be resolved with few changes in registry   The Visual Studio 2010 Help-About dialog box and the Splash Screen show Registered...

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...

  PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Unable to install “Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4” Symptoms: Snippets of Installation log File: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [9/30/2011, 17:36:35] Equals evaluated to true [9/30/2011, 17:36...

Issue ========= .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installation fails with error : --------------------------- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Setup --------------------------- The Windows Installer package: c:\95a81ae6b7710d0be9e6ff093daf\vs_setup.ms_...

We have seen few issues with the installation of VC++ redistributables. You are always welcome to involve us for the installation issue. However, if this issue is part of another issue and you just want to fix it instead of waiting on us, you could follow...

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...

  Recently we worked on an interesting issue with a new installation of Visual Studio 2012. Where the IDE would open but trying create a new project or opening an existing project using the File > Open menu would fail with error an error message...

When you try to install a ClickOnce application on Windows 8 OS, it is intercepted by the SmartScreen filter. It would show the below screenshot: Though the application is signed with a certificate from Verisign, still the publisher name is displayed...

Issue: Installation of Silverlight fails with a generic error 1603 "installation failed" after the installation progress shows 99% complete. Cause: To find the root cause open the SilverlightMSI.log from the %temp% folder and it shows an error...

You may find slow down in system booting time after installing .NET Framework 4 client profile on a system and removing .NET Framework 4.0 client profile may resolve the issue. First you should check if there is an mscorsvw process that is taking a bunch...

Please refer the following blog link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smondal/archive/2010/12/31/quot-the-application-has-failed-to-start-because-its-side-by-side-configuration-is-incorrect-please-see-the-application-event-log-for-more-detail-quot.aspx

To work around this issue, please refer to the following link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smondal/archive/2011/02/20/quot-error-25007-error-occurred-while-initializing-fusion-setup-could-not-load-fusion-with-loadlibraryshim-error-0x80131700-quot.aspx

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...

  ISSUE: Unable to publish a ClickOnce Application ============================================ Error 1 Cannot publish because a project failed to build. Error 2 An error occurred while signing: Failed to sign bin\Debug\app.publish\\setup.exe. SignTool...

To solve this issue, please refer to the link below https://blogs.msdn.com/smondal/archive/2010/03/29/visual-studio-2008-hangs-in-design-view-with-asp-net-web-page.aspx   Content by : Soumitra Mondal

While installing the update 974417 and if you get this error, please refer to the link below   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/smondal/archive/2010/07/29/quot-the-upgrade-patch-can-not-be-installed-by-the-windows-installer-service-because-the-program-to...

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...

Execute the following steps to workaround the issue 1. on the Run prompt, type in the following 2. %windir%\system32 and %windir%\system32\dll cache (dll cache will be shown if you uncheck the "Hide the protected OS file" option under folder...

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...

While trying to install .Net framework 3.0, we get an error “Setup failed on component WIC installer" and in the dd_WIC.txt log we see the following =========================================================================== .093: GetGroupIdFromPidGenDll...

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...

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...