Please help on this. I've just now spent the better part of my morning trying to do one simple thing: uninstall DotNet 1.1 Framework so i can reinstall it. I've tried the REINSTALL=ALL and ReinstallMode=VOMUS option. (didn't fix it) I've tried to clear out the registry so it will reinstall. St...more >>

I am unable to open a project created on another system; when I try to add a project to my solution I get an error: "...was created with a newer version of visual studio" The project file has this: ProductVersion = "7.10.3077" And the help in Visual Stdio tells me I am using ver...more >>

hi, I created a .msi file with the help of msdn (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp? url=/library/en- us/crystlmn/html/crtskdeployingwindowsapplications.asp). the problem is that the msi needs to make changes in the registry so i have to logon as admin. so far no problems bu...more >>

Hi there, When I ran my install package, I tried to click “Cancel” button to test my Rollback custom actions. I found if I canceled the installation before my custom actions in the Install stage ran, the installer did rollback but it did not run my Rollback actions. If I canceled the in...more >>

When i add a setup project in my VB.Net project,After this when i try to build this setup project, An error occur. the error message is; "C:\Documents and Settings\mughal\Desktop\Setup2\Setup2.vdproj Unrecoverable build error" I don't know what wrong with this. Other project are working fine. D...more >>

I'm made a windows Install proyect with the result of a windows service proyect, then I add a custom action for all(Install, commit ...) with the result of my windows service proyect, build and run and I getting the following exception system.StackOverFlowException and then fileç c:\myser...more >>

Hello, I'm getting the following error message when my Windows Installer package attempts to put my assembly into the Global Assembly Cache: Error 1935. An error occured during the installation of assembly component {64D9C325-ED58-43C8-B88A-19D0F9A0C50C}. HRESULT: -2146233038. assembly i...more >>

How do I set a registry key with the location of a folder created at install time? My application creates a folder called 'cache' inside it's Application Folder and I'd like to store the complete path of this 'cache' folder in a registry key but I can't figure out how to do it. Any suggestion...more >>

Hi all...If anyone has had experience creating a Windows Setup project that includes a customized Redemption dll, we could sure benefit from your experience. These questions are very Redemption specific...( http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/ ) We are creating a Windows forms application in...more >>

Hello , I Had a problem in developing a application for getting a message over or above system tray . When we first logon into the MSN messenger , The messenger will shows message above the system tray. for example " there are 20 new mails" above system tray . How to impleme...more >>

Hi all I have two one signing assembly registered in GAC in two different version. I want to remove them but I don't seem able to do so. First I used gacutil.exe, failed with this error message C:\>gacutil /u myCompany.theAssemblyName.dll Microsoft (R) .NET Global Assembly Cache Utility...more >>

I am trying to package a simple Windows Service I've built using Visual Studio .NET 2003. I've got most things working "well enough", but there is one behavior regarding registry settings that is quite undesirable. There is one value, call it mydata, that my service needs set by the user durin...more >>

Can get VS.Net to execute properly. I'm not the only one having this prob. The registry deletions don't work for me. Any users of MVPs have a solution for this? ...more >>

Hi, We are currently trying to install .Net Framework v.1.1 on a server which already has v1.0. We are receiving the following error. Error 1704.An installation for Microsoft .NET Framework SDK (English) is currently suspended. You must undo the changes made by that installation to conti...more >>

Hi, I have a MSI project which was built using Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 Whidbey and the operating system used was Windows 2003. It works perfectly fine on Windows 2003 systems where as it gives me "Installation has encountered some error and the error number is 2755" while installing on ...more >>

I have dotnet 1.0 IDE. Do I need, or how do I upgrade to 1.1? Is this an upgrade to 1.0 that I can download somewhere? Thanks, Scott...more >>

Hi all, sorry to came again with a NET Framework 1.1 SP1 installation problem. 1. Win-XP-SP2 machine with a .NET 1.1.4322 Version + German language pack above on a .NET 1.0.3705 (German version) above on a .NET 1.0.3705 (English version). 2. Windows Update started a download and installat...more >>

Hello, I added in my (MSI) installer project an advertisable shortcut, that automatically repairs the installation when something is corrupted. It would be more fine to have a normal shortcut, but I understood that this is not possible without using Orca. My installation project contains a ...more >>

Hi, I had built a patch for a product and the patch worked fine.Now I need to build another patch which should be applied onto the same product. I used the same way as I built the first patch, but the second one did not work. Is there any suggestion for building and applying mutilple patche...more >>

I have to deploy my VB.NET app to end users. But then I understand that the ..NET framework is required at the user's machine. Is there any option while creating the setup, so that it checks if the machine already has .NET framework....if not, it installs framework first, without user interventio...more >>

Hello, I have a strange problem when I want to update an assembly in the GAC. This is the situation : I've made an MSI installer (VS.NET 2003) that puts 2 assembly files in the GAC. The version number of the assemblies are 1.0.0 Now I have an minor update of one of the files, so I increment t...more >>