During the installation of Expression Web 3, you may encounter the following error: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.Cannot find DependencyProperty or PropertyInfo for property named ‘Effect’. Property names are case sensitive. Error at object ‘LayoutRoot’ in markup file ‘XSetupUI;component...

Yes, it’s a long title for a blog, but I’ve got to differentiate the types of setup crashes we have been seeing lately. This one I’ve seen affecting Expression Web 2 and only with computers that have Office 2007 installed on the same machine. Here’s a run down of the situation: When installing Expression...

Please Note: This particular Expression Web 3 setup/install crash is very specific to the problem listed in the blog – a WMI service that won’t start, giving an error 127, which causes the Expression Web 3 install not to succeed. Please do not attempt the fix mentioned in this article unless you are...

The title of this article isn’t an understatement. Just take a look at the picture below. Yes, this is a screenshot of an actual Expression Web setup dialog. Kind of scary isn’t it? The kicker to this weird issue is that Expression Setup and most of the Expression application user interfaces are the...

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This is a frustrating problem. You launch Expression Web and the splash screen pops up, like normal. But all of the sudden you see … The time it takes for the re-install or the re-configuration to complete varies but you may sit there for 20 seconds on up to a few minutes waiting. Eventually Expression...

I've noticed several cases where people are unable to install Expression Web.  Here are some steps you can take to attempt to fix the issue. 1.  Check the application log to see if there are any errors specific to Expression web.  The file is EXPRWD.EXE.  This can give you good search...