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Friday, July 03, 2009 12:02 AM

Installation sequence restrictions for multi-package transactions

Windows Installer 4.5 introduced a feature to install multiple packages in a single transaction. Multi-package transactions allow setup developers to install multiple packages as an atomic unit that are installed together, or rolled back completely. You
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Friday, May 29, 2009 5:52 PM

How to workaround the issue when opening Office applications repairs Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 customers have been reporting that when they start Outlook or any of the Office applications, VS2010 is repaired. This issue can also happen for VS2005 and VS2008, and for any products using Visual Basic for Applications
Posted by Heath Stewart | 13 Comments
Attachment(s): Filter.zip
Friday, May 29, 2009 3:40 AM

Detecting Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

The Visual Studio 2008 RTM and SP1 detection keys are largely the same as the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 detection keys , and are documented below. But there is a caveat for released and upcoming versions: the shared detection value can be overwritten by
Posted by Heath Stewart | 1 Comments
Friday, May 22, 2009 4:25 PM

Updated log collection utility available for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1

Last Monday we shipped Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1 to MSDN customers, and made them publicly available Wednesday. More information about Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 are available on MSDN , and Aaron Stebner has
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:32 PM

Patch Applicability

When installing a patch package , Windows Installer first determines if the patch is applicable. Depending on how the patch is installed, this happens a little differently. Windows Installer can determine the list of applicable products, or it can be
Posted by Heath Stewart | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:54 PM

Microsoft .NET 1.x and Visual Studio 7.x patches may fail to uninstall

When attempting to uninstall a patch from the products listed in the Applies To section below, the following error may occur. Internal Error 2771. M953297 The last part of the error message will vary with each patch, where the last 6 digits are the knowledge
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Friday, February 13, 2009 1:35 AM

Why does ICE03 state my localized template string is invalid?

Question When I run ICE validation, why does ICE03 state the following error? ICE03 ERROR Invalid template string; Table: Error, Column: Message, Key(s): 1958 The string reads, ユーザー [2] の特権が不十分です。必要な特権をユーザーに付与してインストールを続行しますか? [いいえ] を選択するとインストールは終了します。
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Monday, February 02, 2009 5:57 PM

Changes to Package Caching in Windows Installer 5.0

Windows Installer 5.0 is shipping in Windows 7 as part of the operating system. To address the issue where the User Account Control consent dialog is displayed with an “Unidentified Publisher”, the .msi package is cached in its entirety. Prior to Windows
Posted by Heath Stewart | 12 Comments
Monday, February 02, 2009 1:02 PM

Feature Changes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 may prompt for SQLSysClrTypes.msi

After installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 , adding or removing features from Visual Studio may prompt for the file SQLSysClrTypes.msi with the following text: Setup is looking for file SQLSysClrTypes.msi. Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio
Posted by Heath Stewart | 5 Comments
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:34 PM

Repairing Products after Patches Advertised Features

Windows Installer supports advertising features to enable users to later install those features on demand. But Windows Installer may advertise features in when a component is removed from a feature through obsolescence or supersedence . This will leave
Posted by Heath Stewart | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:33 PM

Unadvertise Features

A Windows Script file to repair Windows Installer products by unadvertising their features.
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Attachment(s): Unadvertise.zip
Friday, January 16, 2009 1:30 AM

Dictionary of Windows Installer Tokens

If you are writing emails and specifications about Windows Installer all day, chances are your document or mail editor has plenty of squiggly red lines highlighting your presumed spelling errors like MsiPatchSequence. To not miss any actual spelling errors,
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:20 PM

Windows Installer Dictionary

Spelling dictionary for Windows Installer tokens.
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Attachment(s): msi.zip
Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:10 PM

Another Possible Workaround for Error 1330

When installing Visual Studio 2008, you might run into an error dialog that reads, Error 1330.A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file D:\cab1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is
Posted by Heath Stewart | 7 Comments
Monday, October 06, 2008 3:57 PM

Adding features to Visual Studio 2008 may fail to load setup components

When attempting to add features to Visual Studio 2008 after it has already been installed, you may see an error that reports, A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup. Fix Updated: a hotfix has been uploaded to
Posted by Heath Stewart | 4 Comments
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