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 ...

I plan to use the following installation scenario, involving the sample .NET
Framework Bootstrapper.
1. Ask the user to dowload the dotnetfx.exe from the Win Update site;
2. Search for the dotnetfx.exe file on the client machine and if found, get

I am trying to install Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 English
It succesfully installed Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8.
After rebooting it gave i believe 3 time message failure in DllRegister for
ado15.dll

I was sucessful in using the setup wizard to create a setup project. I
noticed two things: it does not appear under Stert -> Programs and it doesn't
create a short cut on my desktop. Is there a way to achieve this
functionality?

I am using Updater Application Block. However, when there is a new version in
the updater server, the client can't update the new version.
The following error message throw:
The BITS service returned an error for the job with the ID

When I try to install .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 on a W2K SP4 machine I get:
Error 1711 An error has occurred while writing installation information to
disk.  Check that you have enough disk space.
I have 1gb free on the system partition.  I can install SP1 on another