{"id":2803,"date":"2005-10-07T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2005\/10\/07\/net-2-0-and-visual-studio-2005-patches-will-required-msi-3-1\/"},"modified":"2005-10-07T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T11:28:00","slug":"net-2-0-and-visual-studio-2005-patches-will-required-msi-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/net-2-0-and-visual-studio-2005-patches-will-required-msi-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":".NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Patches will Required MSI 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, along with SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006,&nbsp;will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2005\/jun05\/TechEd2005Day2PR.mspx\">officially launched<\/a> November 7th. .NET and Visual Studio, at least, will require that you have Windows Installer 3.0 installed on Windows NT-based platforms, including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and newer. If you have Windows XP SP2 installed you have at least Windows Installer 3.0.&nbsp;If you have Windows 2003 SP1 installed, or you have Windows XP or Windows 2003 for x64 then you already have at least Windows Installer 3.1.<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/2005\/04\/12\/407665.aspx\">reasons<\/a> that affect servicing, patches for .NET and the Visual Studio line of products including the future release of Team System will require Windows Installer 3.1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c\">Downloading Windows Installer 3.1<\/a> and installing it now may save you trouble later and .NET and Visual Studio will still install correctly since Windows Installer does a good job of being backward compatible, at least as far as Windows Installer 2.0 in terms of some behavior.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of Windows Installer 2.0, Windows 98 and Me users are required to have Windows Installer 2.0 installed. Both shipped with Windows Installer 1.2 so you&#8217;ll need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=cebbacd8-c094-4255-b702-de3bb768148f\">download Windows Installer 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases the setup bootstrap will provide a link to download the appropriate version of Windows Installer &#8211; either 2.0 on 9x or 3.0 on NT &#8211; if you don&#8217;t already have it installed.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, along with SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006,&nbsp;will be officially launched November 7th. .NET and Visual Studio, at least, will require that you have Windows Installer 3.0 installed on Windows NT-based platforms, including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and newer. If you have Windows XP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-installation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, along with SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006,&nbsp;will be officially launched November 7th. .NET and Visual Studio, at least, will require that you have Windows Installer 3.0 installed on Windows NT-based platforms, including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, and newer. If you have Windows XP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}