Installing Web Application Project in Vista Wednesday, November 14 2007

The Community Server project uses the Web Application Project for Visual Studio 2005 so I found myself having to install it on my Vista build 5536 machine.  The problem however, was that every time I tried to install it, I got error code 2869.  Eventually I found a way around this problem.

  1. Create a new .bat file in the same folder as the one the WebApplicationProjectSetup.msi file is in.
  2. Add the following text 'msiexec /i WebApplicationProjectSetup.msi' and save the file.
  3. Right click the .bat file and select 'Run as Administrator'.

This should now go all the way through without throwing an error.

12 comment(s) so far

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Damian wrote on January 23, 2008

Same problem & solution for Vista RC1. Thx!

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iwkid wrote on January 23, 2008

Ran into the same thing - THANKS for the solution!

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Yuri wrote on January 23, 2008

Thank you!

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Christopher wrote on January 23, 2008

thank you, had the same problem with RC1

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dcw wrote on January 23, 2008

You rock! Your post saved me a lot of grief. Thanks!

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raju wrote on January 23, 2008

what about the updations that are done to the application. how is that installed. can it be installed without uninstalling the previous versions with the new .msi file?

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software development london wrote on January 23, 2008

Interesting,

This is a great solution,

Keep up the good work,

Anyway, thanks for the post

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software development london wrote on January 23, 2008

Interesting,

This is a great solution,

Keep up the good work,

Anyway, thanks for the post

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منتدى wrote on January 23, 2008

Nice Thank you

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Monte Glider wrote on January 23, 2008

This is really problem solving article .Same kind of problem i was facing but now i found the solution of it here.I will follow your way to install web application project in vista.

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