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I am unable to uninstall the previous release of XPS Essential from my Windows XPsp2 system. I get a fatal error from Add/Remove Programs control panel. Suggestions?

Czech Republic, you ignorants. And wtf is 14?

I can't install this on my XP SP3 with .NET 3.5. It says a program (part of the setup) did not finish as expected and I should contact the package vendor. Anyone facing the same problem?

I solved my problem by creating my own viewer in VS 2008. I used the Document Viewer and the following code below. The trick is to add a reference to the .NET 3.0 .dll for the system.windows.xps namespace called ReachFramework.dll located at

C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.0

Here is the code:

string xpsFilename=@"C:\<my xps document>.xps";

                    System.Windows.Xps.Packaging.XpsDocument _xpsPackage;

_xpsPackage = new System.Windows.Xps.Packaging.XpsDocument(xpsFilename,

       FileAccess.Read, CompressionOption.NotCompressed);

FixedDocumentSequence fixedDocumentSequence =

       _xpsPackage.GetFixedDocumentSequence();

documentViewer1.Document =

       fixedDocumentSequence as IDocumentPaginatorSource;

I get the same issue as Derek installing on Windows Server 2008 x64. Due to Windows Server 2008's "enhanced security settings" in IE XPS documents don't work there by default so the XPS essentials pack would be really handy here......I guess PDF still works.

Same problem here - XP SP3 with .net 3.5 - did not finish as expected.  Even on the third try, by which time you might have thought it would have expected not to finish ;-)

On XP SP3 this fails to install, claiming that "a program was interrupted". This is the third time XP SP3 has screwed me over in the past week, includig its infamously bad Firewire support. How did MS manage to make XP worse with a service pack?