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Expression Web 3 crashes during install

Here’s another installation crash issue. The install of Expression Web 3 will be humming right along when all of a sudden you get the generic error saying “Expression Web 3 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.” Read More...
Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 4:18 PM by willbu | 0 Comments

Expression Web/STUDIO 2 crashes on setup - “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.Cannot convert string 'pack://application…”

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:01 PM by willbu | 0 Comments

Expression Web 3 Setup crashes immediately after launching (not the fonts issue)

If you have been over to the Microsoft Expression Web Support Forum lately then you have probably noticed the rash of issues where Expression Web 3 fails to launch as soon as you launch the application. This article isn’t about that issue. I brought it Read More...
Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 7:12 PM by willbu | 0 Comments

Setup screens appear graphically confused

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:38 PM by willbu | 0 Comments

Known causes for Expression Web 2 installation crashes

Tired of trying to install Expression Web 2 over and over again only to have the installation crash with an unhandled exception error? Sick of seeing the dialog “An unknown error has occurred” during Expression Web 2 setup? No, it won’t cost you $19.95 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:53 PM by willbu | 3 Comments

Solution: Expression Web re-installs itself each time it is launched

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:20 PM by willbu | 1 Comments

Installation Issues

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:26 PM by griffinst | 0 Comments
 
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