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May 22, 2009
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Updated log collection utility available for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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 a good collection of direct links.While we have worked hard to reduce install times and installati...

InstallationVisual StudioNews
May 20, 2009
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Microsoft VS/.NET Log Collection Tool

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

Using the Collect Utility If you encounter any setup issues, we will need all relevant logs. Please follow the instructions below to collect all those logs. Reporting Setup Errors There are several options for reporting setup errors, but you might consider first checking to see if the issue is a known issue. This will save you time and provide mo...

Visual Studio.NETVS2008SP1
Apr 13, 2009
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Patch Applicability

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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 told to which products the patch should be applied.Possible productsTo have Windows Installer determ...

InstallationLoggingEssentials
Mar 12, 2009
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Microsoft .NET 1.x and Visual Studio 7.x patches may fail to uninstall

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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 base article related to the patch.Applies To WorkaroundOne pos...

InstallationVisual StudioLogging
Feb 13, 2009
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Why does ICE03 state my localized template string is invalid?

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

QuestionWhen 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}...

InstallationMailbagFAQ
Feb 2, 2009
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Changes to Package Caching in Windows Installer 5.0

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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 Installer 5.0, installation packages, or .msi files, were stripped of their embedded...

InstallationLoggingUAC
Feb 2, 2009
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Feature Changes in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 may prompt for SQLSysClrTypes.msi

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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 Team System 2008 Team Suite – ENU disk 1 now. The text will read differently depending...

InstallationVS2008SP164-bit
Jan 28, 2009
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Repairing Products after Patches Advertised Features

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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 the product in a broken state while reporting that the patch installed successfully.Silverlight 2....

InstallationVisual StudioVS2008SP1
Jan 27, 2009
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Unadvertise Features

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

The attached Windows Script file allows you to unadvertise features in a Windows Installer product by specifying either a ProductCode or the path to an MSP. If any features are advertised - whether incidental or intentional - the product will be reinstalled and those features added locally to your computer. Usage Only one of /Patch or /ProductCode...

InstallationVS2008SP1Pages
Jan 16, 2009
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Dictionary of Windows Installer Tokens

Heath Stewart
Heath Stewart

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, I find myself double-checking and adding lots of Windows Installer terms to my custom dictio...

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