I get "the product you are trying to install has already been
installed" message when trying to run dotnetfx.exe on a server 2003
machine.  I need to uninstall in order to reinstall a custom version
of the dotnetfx.exe, but .net framework 1.1 does not appear in the

I installed one smart client application. Then I upgraded the application
with newly published version and after that I tried to uninstall the
installed version from the add\remove program. I got following error
ERROR SUMMARY

During XP Pro Setup, it won't accept the CD license key.  Any thoughts?

how can I install the .Net Framework Configuration Utility?
From what I read it should be accessible from the Administrative Tools
menu in the control panel.
Thanks for your help

I have been trying to get typelib registration to work on VS2008 with a
.Net/COM assembly and a generated typelibrary.
I cannot get the type library properly included into the setup project.
This is the error/warning I get:

I need to get the primary output exe associated with a custom action for use
in an Installer class.  How do I do this?

GC.Collect() not cleaning memory, how to find out what references to lots of
memory still exist?
When all my processign is done i set everything to null and then:
GC.Collect();

I've just installed Windows XP Professional SP2, and all the the patches by
windows update.
When i tried to install .net framework 3.5, or repair it, i got this strange
error, which i never seen before:

I need help uninstalling/fixing/or updating. I can't seem to do any of these
things (apparently my current version has become corrupted)

[ This post is related to COM addin, but the same problem happens when
I created a project using installer class & incorporated that project
into my existing windows application project.]
I have created one Outlook addin using VSTO SE / VB 2005 / Outlook

PerformanceCounterCategory.Create() takes 3 minutes to add a new category!!
How come? What can cause this?

Hi Gang,
Does anyone know a best practices method for locating the correct
version of RegASM.exe using the registry?
This is the strategy I've come up with and just want to make sure

How to I get my ASPX files to run through local host?
I have them set up in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot, but I can't seem to figure out how
to wade through all the IIS settings to get my default website to display
through http://localhost/.