UPDATE: I updated this post slightly to address some good criticsm from Rob Mensching by removing the MsiZap section. Note that this post does not blame the Windows Installer for the few problems we have with ASP.NET MVC installations. The major culprit tends to be either devenv /setup or ngen.exe. The point in this post is to provide tools for those who are very careful, know what they are doing, and really want to take a peek at how the installer works. These tools can help provide insight to whether the two culprits I just mentioned really are...
I’m working to try and keep internal release notes up to date so that I don’t have this huge amount of work when we’re finally ready to release. Yeah, I’m always trying something new by giving procrastination a boot today. These notes were sent to me by Jacques, a developer on the ASP.NET MVC feature team. I only cleaned them up slightly. The sections below contain descriptions and possible solutions for known issues that may cause the installer to fail. The solutions have proven successful in most cases. Visual Studio Add-ins The ASP.NET MVC installer may...