In my Previous Posting I mentioned about working over the splash screen issue. One of my colleague Rohit Sarangi helped me with this and was able to come up with the steps to change the “Display Name” & “Organization Name” on the splash screen.

Symptoms

The Visual Studio 2010 Help-About dialog box and the Splash Screen show Registered Username and Registered Organization as Microsoft. This could cause problem when you create a new project. The projects create an AssemblyInfo file to save the information about the Owner and the Company. This might show Microsoft as the company and you wanted to get your company name.

The help about dialog: Image 1.

Splash screen: Image 2.

Cause

The Visual Studio 2010 installation does not provide option enter Registered Username. It is picking up the values from the existing registry settings.

Image 3.

Workaround:

To resolve this issue we have to follow the steps below. This is a two step process. First the registry needs to modified, this will show the data in Help About dialog box. Then we have to follow the next set of process to register the values to appear in the splash screen.

Steps for Help About dialog:

On a x86 bit (32 bit OS) computer follow the below path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Registration\UserName
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization

On a x64 bit (64 bit OS) computer follow the below path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Registration\UserName
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization

Changing the UserName will change the first line in the help about dialog.
Changing the RegisteredOrganization will change the second line in the help about dialog.

Steps to fix the splash screen:

On a x86 bit (32 bit OS) computer follow the below path:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup

On a x64 bit (64 bit OS) computer follow the below path:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup

Launch Visual Studio 2010 to check if both the issues are resolved or not. Also create a new project to check that the new information is auto populated.

For testing purpose I followed the process and changed this to Rohit Sarangi and Contoso.com. Here is how it should look like.

Image 4.

Image 5.

Once you successfully change the registry value you can see the difference in Image 4 & 5.

IMPORTANT Note: Please ensure you have taken a backup of the registry before making any changes.

On a x86 bit (32 bit OS) Windows 32 Bit follow the below steps:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Registration\UserName

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization

On a x64 bit (64 bit OS) Windows 64 Bit follow the below information:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Registration\UserName

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization

Changing the UserName will change the first line in the help about dialog.

Changing the RegisteredOrganization will change the second line in the help about dialog.

The registry change will fix the Help > About Information

In Splash Screen you may not see the changes. I am working on it and any related information I found I will surely post it. In case anyone tried anything with the splash screen are welcome to suggest their points.

From the Log dd_VSMsiLog3CA8.txt able to found two errors and the machine I am working in this Visual Studio 2010 Beta & RC was already installed prior.

Snippet 1:

MSI (s) (48:70) [12:22:51:806]: Note: 1: 1935 2: {692AAFD0-A89D-4DDA-AA85-E529B871A47E} 3: 0x80070570 4: IAssemblyCacheItem 5: Commit 6: VSLangProj2,version="7.0.5000.0",publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",fileVersion="7.10.6070.0",culture="neutral"
04/20/10 12:22:50 DDSet_Exit: WcfToolsInstall
MSI (s) (48:70) [12:51:47:055]: Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - ENU -- Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'VSLangProj2,version="7.0.5000.0",publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",fileVersion="7.10.6070.0",culture="neutral"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x80070570. assembly interface: IAssemblyCacheItem, function: Commit, component: {692AAFD0-A89D-4DDA-AA85-E529B871A47E}

MSI (s) (48:70) [12:51:47:425]: User policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
MSI (s) (48:70) [12:51:47:425]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
Action ended 12:51:47: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.

Snippet 2:

MSI (s) (48:70) [12:57:03:317]: Note: 1: 1935 2: {3D5CAF58-5481-45FF-A4FA-BE4F44550417} 3: 0x80070050 4: IAssemblyCacheItem 5: Commit 6: msddslmp,version="10.0.0.0",publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",processorArchitecture="MSIL",fileVersion="10.0.30128.1",culture="neutral"
Info 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'msddslmp,version="10.0.0.0",publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",processorArchitecture="MSIL",fileVersion="10.0.30128.1",culture="neutral"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x80070050. assembly interface: IAssemblyCacheItem, function: Commit, component: {3D5CAF58-5481-45FF-A4FA-BE4F44550417}
MSI (s) (48:70) [12:57:03:320]: Note: 1: 1712
MSI (s) (48:70) [12:57:25:096]: Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - ENU -- Error 1712.One or more of the files required to restore your computer to its previous state could not be found.  Restoration will not be possible.

MSI (s) (48:70) [12:57:25:110]: Note: 1: 2318 2: 
MSI (s) (48:70) [12:57:25:152]: No System Restore sequence number for this installation.
MSI (s) (48:70) [12:57:25:152]: Unlocking Server
MSI (s) (48:70) [12:57:25:333]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Deleting UpdateStarted property. Its current value is '1'.
Action ended 12:57:25: INSTALL. Return value 3.

• Presently working on this any comment or steps tried supporting this issue is really appreciated and please feel free to put the comment
• If I get the cause and the solution for this I will go ahead and post the same.

Discussion going on: Microsoft-Connect

So here is the resolution goes for this case in which I worked and now the issue is fixed: Elaborating it once again !!

• With the above log snippets when I did more research my target was below

ENU -- Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'VSLangProj2,version="7.0.5000.0",publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",fileVersion="7.10.6070.0",culture="neutral"'

• I concentrated more on 'VSLangProj2,version="7.0.5000.0”

With the below error the confirmation was more strong that the issue was somewhere in 'VSLangProj2,version="7.0.5000.0"

[Window Title]
Location is not available

[Content]
C:\Windows\assembly\GAC\VSLangProj2\7.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a is not accessible.

The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

[OK]

• Tried manually going to C:\Windows\assembly\GAC\VSLangProj2
• But the Error was “The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable”
• Tried to check content from Command Prompt, no success
• Rename failed as it was not allowing to get inside the folder 7.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a
• Tried renaming, deleting fromwindows and command Prompt even Safe Mode but no success

These kind of scenario are mostly seen when there is File System Corruption

• Decided to run chkdisk /r
• We was able to achieve the goal
• Even it was not required to delete 7.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a

After the above set of troubleshooting the conclusion was “ File System Corruption”

• Issue may be applicable depending on various scenarios
• But yes chkdsk /r is will not cause any harm to you computer

People are welcome to post their experience and if I can be of any help.

I Specially wanted to thanks one of my customer who helped me by sharing all the information which was required to fix the issue.

After checking the various problem description, it looks like the existing version of the framework is also corrupted and due to which the installation is failing. I am listing few steps please perform and let me know the result of the same.

· https://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/e/20e90413-712f-438c-988e-fdaa79a8ac3d/dotnetfx35.exe

· The above will download the complete redistributable of Framework 3.5 SP1

· The next link I am providing is to remove the previous versions of Framework. I will recommend you cleaning the Framework from 3.5 followed by previous version

· https://blogs.msdn.com/joy/attachment/8764623.ashx

· Once the cleanup is done reboot the computer and install the framework redistributable downloaded

Once again I would like to add the above resolution is temporary and Microsoft is working getting more details and the root cause of the failure from the information we collected.

In Microsoft connect you will see a Visual Studio 2008 Clean Up tool is available for download. In couple of forum discussion and the query I have received whether that also removes Beta Version. Beta Version cannot be removed using this tool.

Before you conclude to the part that Visual Studio 2008 Cleanup Tool can remove the Beta Version, please take some time to go through the statement mentioned in Microsoft Connect

Note: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 RC/RTM uninstall tool will not uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta releases. To completely uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta releases, Go to Add/Remove programs and uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 core component corresponding to Visual Studio Edition installed on your computer. For example, If you installed Visual Studio 2008 Team System Beta2, you can uninstall “Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 – Team Suite”. This would uninstall Visual Studio 2008 Beta components that need to be uninstalled prior to installation of Visual Studio final release.

Refer Download section to get the tool and also take some time to go through REFERENCE

UninstallTool.exe

When Visual Studio 2008 released last year, it was packed with a lot new functionality and features that made many a Microsoft developer's heart go a flutter.

This month, Microsoft unveiled the future of Visual Studio and its called Visual Studio 2010 or Dev10. To along with the new version, the .Net framework is being upgraded to

Major Changes in Visual Studio 2010

Enabling Emerging Trends

· Cloud Development: Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio enables developers to build, debug and deploy services and applications for the cloud. This includes a project model that you can use to build your application or service. The Windows Azure Tools are used to deploy the package to the cloud through the Live Developer Portal.

· Parallel Development It's not easy by any means to write code that is optimized to run across more than one processor (parallel development). Microsoft now provides an environment that will help do this through Visual Studio IDE support for Parallel development and Native C++ libraries and compiler support for parallel applications. In addition, version 4 of the .net framework will also provide things like P-LIINQ and parallel language semantics and framework components. The debugger and a performance analyzer are also optimized to support parallel development.

Inspiring Developer Delight

· Coding Improvements: A new editor uses Windows Presentation Foundation technology to provide integrated support that helps you understand your code. Things like the “Document Map Margin” — which renders a graphical view of your source file with information about the code, third party add-ons for custom views, “Inline Call Hierarchy” — see how a particular method or entity is passed into and out of the code section, and “Highlight References” — a visual representation of code references.
The new editor also integrates with something called the TDD — Test Driver Development. The TDD is used to build the tests to test the code before it's even written.

· Web Development: A new set of ASP.Net tools allows developers to use TDD to build Model-View-Controller (MVC) based websites.
Included are Project Templates and Solutions out of the box for a MVC website, automatic generation of test projects, wizards for common tasks such as creating views from controllers and more. Support for Javascript and JQuery, a “one click” deployment wizard and SilverLight runtime and tooling are also new.

· C++ Development: A total revamp of the IDE to support parallel development, cloud development, an MFC Class Wizard and stronger support for large solutions with thousands of files are in the new version of VS.

SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010

The Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint. Share

· The tools added include:

· View lists and other artefacts from SharePoint in Visual Studio

· New SharePoint Services Project file

· Visual Web Part Designer, web part project items

· Event Receivers for SharePoint, Wizards to select the event receiver

· ASPX Workflow Initiation form for Workflow Project

· SharePoint packaging explorer and editor

Riding the Next Generation Platform Wave

· Windows 7: VS2010 will support development for the new Windows 7 operating system which includes a number of new tools to develop new apps and make existing ones take advantage of the new features of the OS.

· Office Business Applications: First introduced with VS2005, the next version of VS will enable developers to build Office applications that span multiple versions of MS Office (32 or 64 bit) and deliver them as a single deployment package (again using that One Click Wizard we mentioned above). In addition, we see the introduction of designer support for building flexible UIs in either WPF or Fluent, improved data binding, integration of Office data sources using LINQ and integration of the Business Data Catalog.

Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management

The primary discussion around this new version is about the “democratizing of application life-cycle management (ALM)” using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 — also called Rosario.

Architecture Lifecycle Diagram

· Modelling Tools: Using VSTS 2010 Architecture, both technical and non-technical users can work together to model business systems using either UML and DSL — this modelling capability is part of the Oslo modelling platform.

· Improved Efficiency Throughout the Test Cycle: New and improved testing features include the ability to eliminate non-reproducible bugs, fast setup and deployment of tests and the ability to ensure all code changes are tested.

· Improvements in Collaboration Capabilities: Team Foundation Server has been enhanced, enabling development teams to utilize agile development approaches, visualization tools for tracking changes and workflow-build tools that catch errors before the real trouble comes

Architecture Explorer

Visual Studio 2010 also provides a unified VSTS Development and Database product.

Getting to Visual Studio 2010

It's not out yet. You can try it out with the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview. The CTP release is available in English only as a Virtual PC image.

Apparently the plan is to roll VS 2010 in five phases, broken down similar to how they are described above and starting with Demo crating Application Lifecycle Management. In an interview with Information Week, Dave Mendlen, the company's director of marketing for developer tools said “Instead of gradually opening a fire hose of news, with this release we'll focus on individual themes,” [] “While transparency is a good thing in many circumstances, the perception [among developers] was that they were getting bombarded with information sort of constantly.”

And while we've heard this new version makes developing SharePoint applications much easier, we couldn't find any details on the Microsoft sites on how they'll make that happen — other than the MSDN blog referenced above.

You can get a little more information on Visual Studio 2010 on the product website or view some videos describing it on Microsoft's Channel 9 PDC2008 site.

Click Here to download Vs2010

VS2010-Download

2. Operating System compatibility

3. Any specific Prerequisites

4. Is prerequisites are getting installed along with the application or needs to be install prior to that ( Depends from application to application )

5. When it comes to troubleshooting part we need to ensure the above check list first then we need to ensure what all other information do we have

a) Exact Error Message

b) Error Code (If Any)

c) When we get the error

d) Supported / Not Supported

e) Application what user is try to install or what error he is getting while trying to run the application

f) We need to ensure we have enough data to troubleshoot the issue first

(The above scenario information can be consider for both .Net as well as Visual Studio installation)

6. Once we have these information we can proceed further

7. In both .Net & VS installation any failure we require the log file

8. Log file will guide to drill the issue further and we will have to consider both MSI and Non MSI log file

9. Error text file will be created by default or let’s say Error Log will be there in the Temp

10. But to get more deeper into that MSI log file helps

11. Either we can send the registry key to the customer or manually we can enable the verbose logging

12. To enable verbose logging: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\windows\Installer]

"EnableAdminTSRemote"=dword:00000001

"Logging"="voicewarmup!"

13. If we take a scenario of .Net installation the below logs should be in place to troubleshoot

a) dd_dpcheck_Netfx

b) dd_dotnetfxerror ( Version will also get listed)

c) dd_dotnetfxinstall (Version will also get listed)

d) MSI (verbose)

Best practice grabbing the correct log is to sort the temp folder with date and if there is several then better delete the entire temp and then try to install it again. This helps getting the fresh logs

14. Once we have these details we should logically proceed further

15. Known issue yes/No

16. Where the installation is failing

17. Is windows installer causing any issues? If yes we can always check with msiexec /unregister & maiexec /regserver

18. With the log we can also proceed further towards checking the below values:

19. We can also get lot of direction from common Windows Installer Error Messages

Ref: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372835(VS.85).aspx

Dealing with custom action failure for example we can always use process monitor which helps finding any access denied or we can say a overall process which are trying to get execute or registry which are being used

· These things will really help isolating the root cause and yes in Vista and Windows 2008 the Framework 2.0 and 3.0 it’s a OS component

· In case of repair you will have to go to “Windows Feature Turn On – Turn Off”

In case of any question or suggestion feel free to E Mail me. The above provided are basic steps to troubleshoot .Net Framework and if you are really not comfortable, my suggestion will be please contact us.

msicuu2.exe

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Microsoft Visual Studio

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 7/16/2009

Time: 4:20:56 PM

User: N/A

Computer: G5PD2UA6010LLG

Description:

Faulting application devenv.exe, version 8.0.50727.762, stamp 45716759, faulting module ctpackage.dll, version 7.1.0.156, stamp 45420054, debug? 0, fault address 0x0003e511.

Root Cause of the issue: While building in VS2005, it crashes in CTPACKAGE.dll. This is IBM ClearCase dll and has know issues.

Resolution:

As per the IBM Knowledge Base we can update the particular version of the ClearCase Installed or we can remove the ClearCase

Refer To IBM Knowledge Base

     Error Message

     Log:

[05/23/09,15:46:18] Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0a: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0a. MSI returned error code 1625

[05/23/09,15:47:23] WapUI: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0a is not installed.

[05/25/09,17:15:10] Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0a: [2] Error: Installation failed for component Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0a. MSI returned error code 1625

== Error code 1625 states about DisablePatch

== Check the target value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer

== Patch was set to 1 but changed it to 0

== This means it will fail with any patch installation

== Installed Framework 3.5 Successfully after that

== So downloaded 3.5 SP1 Redistributable again and installed it successfully

Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Xaml' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {E58C2A8B-BCC4-4559-AD59-D62EB6D58A22} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future? You may use 'devenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading.

== Tried devenv /resetskippkgs

== Collected the log devenv /log
== Logs created at %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\8.0\ActivityLog.xml
== In that I did not find any failure
== So concluded that the packages are loading fine

== Tried repairing the Visual Studio 2008 but that will not help, best possible way is to install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

These issue can be always fixed with the installation of Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Download Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Here