How can I detect if Acrobat Reader is installed on a PC with any windows operating system (Win 98, Win2K, WinXP) ...more >>

Hello all, I am struck with an issue. I have been assigned with a work to premanently remove few options on the "Installation Folder Screen" while making "Setup Project". Those are... 1. "Disk Cost" button 2. The following option... Install .. for yourself "Just Me" Radio Buttons "Eve...more >>

Hi there, I got an installed failed information (Event ID 11708) when I tried my install package. I searched from the internet saying that this is a problem related with the directory permission. I added permissions for everyone according to some websites but it did not work for my installe...more >>

Hi, I create a setup for .Net WinForm application that will create registry setting for database server name. Currently, I use the edit box provided with VS.Net setup wizard to prompt user for the server name. The problem is I can't validate the input. Is there a way to interface or call ot...more >>

Hi, I created a custom action installer for my .net setup project. From this custom installer class, I need to determine the path of the .msi file. It's because during setup, I want to execute another 3rd-party .exe file, which I will put in the same folder as the .msi file and deploy to cl...more >>

I have one solution in my IDE environment. Depending upon my precompile constants, I create a myDll.dll for my web application. I set up a deployment package, which can be launched on the target machine. The application works fine. However, if I create another myDll.dll with different precomp...more >>

Hello everyone. I created an msi file using VS.NET 2003. I set the RemovePreviousVerions = true and it worked great... any later versions would in fact remove prior ones. I wanted to modify my msi install to just show the progress bar and the completed dialog. So in VS I went into the User Inter...more >>

Hi Is there a free installer / msi / setup creator available , that is capable of installing assemblies into the GAC folder, the same way that the setup project wizard in VS.NET does? only free. ...more >>

a customer of mine is trying to install Vb, in turn Vb asks for,, and starts a .Net installation. Which fails. "Iexpress setup encountered a problem an needs to close!" I sent him a .net standalone installer, which did the same thing. All his other identical xp machines install fine, and this ...more >>

Hi there, I'm getting some strange warnings appearing while I'm compiling a couple of setup projects I have in a solution. I'm being informed of the following warnings, WARNING: Unable to find dependency 'mscorlib' (Signature='B77A5C561934E089' Version='1.0.5000.0') of assembly 'System...more >>

Hey guys, I've written this MSI installer after a great deal of time (about a week or so) to suit the needs of my client and 'I'm almost there'. The users (about 150 of them) have only one shortcut on their desktops. When clicked, it fetches the MSI from the shared drive F:\ When the ver...more >>

Here is the last part of Log file [10/20/04,11:06:32] Installing: C:\Temp\IXP000.TMP\netfx.msi [10/20/04,11:06:32] Checking IIS... [10/20/04,11:06:32] Checking MDAC Version [10/20/04,11:06:32] Looking for 2.70.7713.0 [10/20/04,11:06:32] Found MDAC Version: 2.80.1022.3 [10/20/04,11:06:32] MDA...more >>

I am working with Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 on a Windows 2003 Server (Beta) machine. My MFC code builds / compiles / excutes fine in debug mode but the debugger just ignores / skips any Breakpoint that I insert. Everybody else's breakpoints/debuggers around me are working fine. Any co...more >>

Hi, I have installed Framework 1.1. Everything looks OK, now I have 2 folders in C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework ...: v1.0.3705 and v1.1.4322 I would like to know, what is needed to do in order to make Visual Studio using the new framework 1.1? I could not find any place where it would ...more >>

Hello, I am experiencing an unprecedented problem... my company has several Web servers. one of them is Win 2003 Server and another win 2000 adv server both used for web production the past few days we've experience an unusual problem to our perpective: We keed getting Access denied for any...more >>

I have a big problem, I had Visual Studio 2002 on my system, I then Loaded Visual Studio 2003 and upgraded to .Net Framework 1.1, I am running Windows 2000 pro. with the latest service packs. My problem is last weeke I loaded the developer portion of SQL Reporting Services on my Machine, it ...more >>

Hello, I recently created a product and I package the .net framework with my release. Now that service pack 1 is out, i would like to package the SP with the release as well. Is there any plans to integrate the .net redistributable with the service pack and if not, then is there any code ...more >>

I am using VS =2ENET 2003 and Orca=2E In a Setup Project I need to= get text from an ini file and populate field EDITA1=2E I have not= found anything in Orca where I can specify this=2E I can just= manually put in the values and rebuild the solution, but that is= overly time consuming=2E ...more >>

Hi, I installed windows 2003 server english version which pre-installed Dot Net Framework 1.1 english version. However, I need to run Chinese web application, I did not find Dot Net Framework 1.1 english version in Add/Remove Program. So, how can I uninstall the Dot Net Framework 1.1 e...more >>

My application installation provides custom installer classes. When I try to install on a .NET F/w 1.1 SP1 machine, the MSI install process goes fine, but when it comes to run my custom installers, I get the message "Unable to get installer types in the <filename> assembly --> One or mor...more >>

Hi EveryBody: How can I make trail version for my Visual Basic.Net Application, for example I want to send my application for a company that want to by it,how can I let my application work for just 15 day after this deuration I want my application to stop running. Any help will be appreciat...more >>

I downloaded ".NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package Beta 1 (IA64)" and tried to install it on Itanium machine on a fresh windows 2003 server but I got the following error "Error 25008 Unexpected exception occurred during assembly installation " Is there iis any available service ...more >>

hi, I'm very new to .net but have built a simple DLL with one class (using a web reference for a soap interface). i then followed instructions and ran tlbexp x.dll gacutil /i x.dll regasm x.dll after that i could use the DLL COM-style in a JScript ASP page under IIS5. however...more >>

I have created several utilities using C#. I would like to be able to run these utilities on customers' XP and 2K machines directly from CDROM without installing any additional software on their machines. Is there a way to set up the .NET framework to run from cdrom? Thanks, Ross Oliver reo...more >>

When I try and install the SP1 I get a Just-In-Time Debugging window with: An exception 'System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException' has occurred in SLB.tmp. I've tried deleting my temp files and reinstalling Framework 1.1. I have a number of .Net development IDEs installed (MS + Borland)...more >>

Hi there, I got an error such as: "The installer was interrupted before "application" could be installed" It only happens on one Windows 2000 computer. I uninstalled .NET Framework 1.1 and reinstalled it. But it doesn't help. Could someone help? It is urgent! Thank you in advance! The ...more >>

Hello, I'm making a setup project for a Windows Installer, to update my application. The application has a configuration file (app.config) that is renamed after the build. I would like to not replace this file by the new configuration file during an installation, but keep it both (the new ...more >>

Hi, I've created an installer for my application in Visual Studio .NET, however what I really need is to modify my current installer to run another application before running the rest of my installer. How do I do this? Thanks, K...more >>

Is there a way to have my .NET installer create a shortcut to my application in the Quick Launch toolbar? I would like to have a method that works with pretty much all dotnet operating systems. Thanks! Bob Dankert ...more >>

Hi EveryBody: do I have to use the sitting.ini file when I use the visual studio 2003 bootstrapper plug-in to add The Net Framework to my setup project? if the answer yes, How can I write the sitting.ini file?any exaples help me to write my sitting file will be appreciated. Thanks Husam...more >>

I am seeig the same problem on Win2003 64-bit IA64, installation always fails with "Error 25008 Unexpected error occurred during assembly installation" when it gets to Microsoft.VisualBasic.vsa.dll. Tried reinistalling the OS & framework many times but no success. Any suggestions would be gr...more >>

Hi EveryBody: I read the articl "using Visual Studio Net 2003 to redistrbuted the Net framework" which is in the msdn library and I applied every step in it to add the Net framework to the setup project: and here what I did: 1- I installed the Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003 Bootstr...more >>

Hello... I am having a problem running Office 2003 on my XP Professional installation. When ever I install the Office 2003 software, it runs for a while and then it starts to crash on start-up. The most critical area is Office Outlook. It ussually crashes first and then the other compone...more >>

How and where do I "author my package"? On the problem of reinstalling an application, I found the advice below, but I don't know how to do it!!! I have spent hours without finding any documentation on this topic. (My setup project creates an .msi file and installes nicely, but I have to r...more >>

Hi All, after I installed the SP1 on CLR1.1, my code using System.Management is no longer working. My code worked the whole time until SP1 and is as follows: //mewSP1Test1.cs using System; using System.Management; public class Test { public static void Main() { ManagementEvent...more >>

I cannot install beta one: Anyone help? (I've tried three times now) The error log is [10/08/04,21:05:14] Visual Studio 2005 Beta - English: [2] ERROR:Error 1935.An error occured during the installation of assembly component {6215FCD7-EE8E-49F3-AD05-82FA750B2230}. HRESULT: -2147024751....more >>

I have a single assembly in my app. It has to reside in the GAC to be found/used from other apps. I am trying to run some custom installer code from some installer classes but its not being run during install (no errors). Has anyone else been successful doing this? Is it not permitted to pu...more >>

Some of my quickstart tutorials are giving me this error: Server Error in '/QuickStart/ASPPlus' Application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Cannot open database requested in login 'pubs'. Login fails. Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\N...more >>

Hi all, if it possible to make a web setup project with VS.NET 2003, that will ask the user where to install the files on the physical path? I don't want to setup a web project on Intetpub/wwwroot/... thanks for help John K. ...more >>

Hi, I am somewhat new to C++.NET. I have finsihed an application that I would like to now be able to install onto another PC. I am not able to find a SetUp Wizard. I do have Setup Project. I have followed "How to create a Setup package bu using Visual Studio.NET", I am not sure if that is what ...more >>

Hi, we are using the VS 2003 Setup-Project to install a Software-Project. We install some .exe files and a .mdb access-database too. Now we have the problem, that everytime a user deletes a .exe from the install-directory the setup runs a repair installation and "repairs" all files including ...more >>

My setup package is installing the .framework 1.1 on the client machine if necessary, but then does NOT launch the .msi to install the application itself. Can someone help me with this? Thanks ___ Newsgroups brought to you courtesy of www.dotnetjohn.com...more >>

Hi, I've just ran windows update and got Framework 1.0 Service pack 3. I'm using VB.Net.Now when I try to view the windows designer on certain forms I get this error: [Resource lookup failed - infinite recursion detected. Resource name: Arg_TargetInvocationException] Help! How ...more >>

Hi there, I terminate an installation by throwing an InstallException and it works. The pop up message shows that “An exception occurred during the Commit phase of the installation. This exception will be ignored and installation will continue. How ever, the application might not function...more >>

..NET Framework install stopped with the error message "registering system.enterpriseservices.dll". My research took me to Knowledge Base Article 824643 "How to troubleshoot Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 installation issues". Following the "Unregister and then register Windows Installer" in...more >>

Delphi 8 requires .Net framework 1.1 wich I have already installed, but still it shows error that "Before installing Delphi you should install .Net framework 1.1" Even when I try to install Visual J# .NET Version 1.1 Redistributable it shows the same error. So as far as I see they both re...more >>

I had installed VS.Net 2005 Beta (VC#), and tried to install the Beta of Sql Server 2005 Beta, my aim is try to work on both. I was unable to installed to Sql Server 2005 Beta as it stated that it has incompatible components between them. If each Beta has individual unique components and can ...more >>

I have Windows XP Pro with the newest SP and all updates. I have Visual Studio .NET 2002 When I installed VS.NET I didn't add iis nor the SQL server but then I decided to reverse that decision while looking at the help files. I have tried doing as the ConfigDetails.htm says Run the foll...more >>