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Errors after Installing Dev10 Beta2 over top of Beta1 on Vista RTM or SP1

There is an issue upgrading .NET 4.0 from Beta1 to Beta2 only on Vista RTM and SP1 as well as Windows Server 2008 SP1. This is due to a known issue that was fixed in Vista SP2, Win7, and Windows Server 2008 R2. It is not an issue on XP. There is a document

.NET: Do you Deploy a Managed App?

(Thanks for the replies so far! It is very insightful to hear all the different ways people deploy .NET apps. I am taking all your answers to the questions and using them to help inform decisions about the future of .NET deployment. I appreciate the responses.)

WiX: "Rosario" WiX toolset vs. the community WiX toolset

This post is a follow-up to Rob Mensching's " Visual Studio ships the WiX toolset " blog entry. One of the key tenets WiX development is operating under is to make all changes available to both community WiX as well as "Rosario" WiX. (They actually get
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VS Fails to Launch after Vista Build-to-Build Upgrades

Currently, VS fails to launch after Vista build to build upgrades. A message box is displayed that says: "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect" This is caused because the upgrade does not yet handle the
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Error 1310 when installing VS from CD/DVD

There have been many problems recently with installation from the media that was handed out at the PDC and in various other places. One problem is caused by the disk label being burned incorrectly (VS install will fail). A second issue occurs during the
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Visual Studio 2005 repair may require reboots

Although we went to great lengths to reduce the number of reboots required by setup, there were still a few that we could not avoid. You will notice that reboots are almost completely a thing of the past for installs but repair/maintenance mode is a different
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