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February 2007 - Posts

Monday, February 26, 2007 3:08 PM

KB925336 Updated with Better Workaround

When installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 , users may see an error that reads, Error 1718.File D:\WINDOWS\Installer\50baad.msp was rejected by digital signature policy. While the filename will be different, the result is that the patch will not

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Filed under: VS 2005 SP1

Monday, February 19, 2007 3:32 PM

Virtual PC 2007 Released and Available for Free Download

Virtual machines are great for testing product installation and update scenarios. I use Virtual Server currently with a base platform and undo disks enabled to test installation. When done – no matter what the impact is to my virtual machine – I click

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Filed under: News

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 2:07 PM

Windows Live Search for Mobile 1.0 Released

Windows Live Search for Mobile 1.0 has been released as announced on Live Search's blog. I used the beta for a while and really like this mobile smart client. It has a lot of capabilities driven from Live Search, but the screenshot below is one of its

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Filed under: Personal, News

Monday, February 05, 2007 5:55 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

When installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 , there are a number of errors that might occur due to insufficient disk space . You might see an error like the following that reads, Error 1307.There is not enough disk space to install this file: D:\WINDOWS\Symbols\dll\mfc80d.IA64.pdb.

Posted by Heath Stewart | 20 Comments

Filed under: Installation, VS 2005 SP1

Monday, February 05, 2007 4:36 PM

Workaround for Error 2902 with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System

When installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System, you might see an error that reads, The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a

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