I'm running Windows 2000 Professional with SP4 and cannot be VS. NET Enterprise Architect 2002 to install.

I saw a 6/2/04 post from Max Palmer and saw that he was getting the same error message trying to install VS .NET 2003 on XP with SP1. My take is that the problem in .NET 2002 wasn't corrected and migrated to later versions.

The install log has nailed down the assembly failure to mshtml.dll, error 1935, "The check of the signature failed for assembly".

Suggestions I've tried include wwwroot$ permissions, mscoree, emptying the temp directory, and stopping the firewall. Sure would like to hear something that doesn't involve reformatting my hard drive, reinstalling the OS, and then installing .NET


My error log looks like this:
[07/18/04,11:48:21] Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect - English: [2] ERROR: Error 1935.An error occured during the installation of assembly component {D825F1C6-87AB-11D5-A54F-0090278A1BB8}. HRESULT: -2146234299.
[07/18/04,11:48:21] Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect - English: [2] ACTION FAILURE: Action ended 11:48:21: InstallFinalize. Return value 3. See MSI log for details.
[07/18/04,11:50:42] Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect - English: [2] ERROR processed; exception was thrown for retail build
Developer Comment: Action Start message out of order
Build Time: Thu Feb 15 17:56:18 2001
File: f:\vs70builds\9466\vs\src\vssetup\setupexe\sitmanagers\brooklyn10\cmsiprogesshandlervs.cpp
Line Number: 230
Expression: (0 > iDiff)
HRESULT: -2147467259
[07/18/04,11:56:11] Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect - English: [2] ERROR processed; exception was thrown for retail build
Developer Comment: Action Start message out of order
Build Time: Thu Feb 15 17:56:18 2001
File: f:\vs70builds\9466\vs\src\vssetup\setupexe\sitmanagers\brooklyn10\cmsiprogesshandlervs.cpp
Line Number: 230
Expression: (0 > iDiff)
HRESULT: -2147467259
[07/18/04,11:56:33] Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect - English: [2] ACTION FAILURE: Action ended 11:56:33: INSTALL. Return value 3. See MSI log for details.
[07/18/04,11:56:48] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper()
[07/18/04,11:56:48] setup.exe: [2] Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()

Normally this is a problem with a bad or corrupt installation of the .net
framework. i would need to see the verbose log to specifically identify
the actual cause of the issue.

Start > Run and type %temp% and then click Ok
Locate the vsmslog*.txt where the * represents four random characters

You could do a search in the log file for Return Value 3 and locate the
1935. Grab the HRESULT and do some searches on that, and you should find a
solution to the issue.

You could also paste those like 10 lines above the Return Value 3 back into
the post and I will take a look.


Cheers,
Tim Macaulay, MCSD, MCP.Net
Microsoft Product Support