My OS is Win2k Pro. I did a windows update and tried to download and install the .net framework.. it downloaded the complete installable and during the installation, the program stopped responding. so i shut down and restarted my machine and Ran th einstallable again manually.. again it ra...more >>

I m getting an error while installing Microsoft Visio for Enterprise Architect. I had installed Visual Studio .Net 2002 - Enterprise Architect earlier and then uninstalled it and installed the Visual Studio .Net 2003 - Enterprise Architect version. Then i tried installing Microsoft Visio f...more >>

Hallo I have an application that when installed should be available for everyone. During the setup procedure there is a dialog box that asks if the application should be available for everyone or "Just me" Does anyone know how to force the setup to be available for everyone? Nigel.....more >>

Is anyone familiar with that Automatic/Automated Update feature for .NET WinForms apps which essentially allow a user to hit a server for their data (even over the Internet) possibly and have their .NET WinForms apps get updated automatically? Can someone tell breifly how this works and if the...more >>

I would like to configure my window which will be shown when my installation running. When i create Custom Action and Passing Data to a Custom Action, I customize the installation user interface by below steps : 1.. Select the Setup project in Solution Explorer. On the View menu, point to E...more >>

The .NET Redistributable provided by Microsoft is very heavy and takes more than 100 MB of space on the Client Machine, This is very big as per our requirement. My question is : Can we redistribute/deploy a small part of the framework. like we copy the specific assemblies and some other n...more >>

Hello - VB Newbie here. I was following some simple instructions in a vb.net book on how to deploy a simple solution - but kept getting error when doing the build dotNETFXRedist_x86_enu.msm must not be used to redistribute the .NET Framework. Please exclude this merge module Somebody sug...more >>

Hello, How is everybody??? I developed an ASP.NET application using VS 2002 (Framework 1.0). I'm in the phase of implementation and my client want to install the application using the lastest version of the framework (1.1). With the idea that VS.NET is backward compatible we installed...more >>

My computer has .NET framework installed, and I attempted to install .NET framework service pack 2 but failed. Here's the error dialog box from Windows Installer: The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the up...more >>

During installation of .NET Framework 1.1 on a W2k Server I get an error message: Error 1926: Could not set file security for file 'C:\Config.Msi\'. Error: 5. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to modify the security permissions for this file. After this error, the installation pro...more >>

Hi Trying to reinstall vs.net because half its interface disappeared, but that's another story... * Uninstalled VS.NET * Uninstalled .NET framework 1.0 and 1.1 * Followed the steps to uninstall them manually at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B320112 * ...more >>

Is there a way to delay-sign CABs so that they can be signed on a CA server? Or is there a way to set up two CA servers (which are not connected by a network) to validate the signatures of CABs signed on one of them? Or is there a better way to do this (like a setup project with an "Auth...more >>

Upon building the setup for our Active Directory .NET project we ran across an issue. When removing the site, setup is also removing the registry entries for activeds.tlb. For more information see here: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=4c0096f21e6e7475&...more >>