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Windows Installer 3.1 breaks VS 2003 Deployment projects

Well, the title says it all. I was doing a product release yesterday when I found - to my astonishment - that the installer was broken. I have been using a Visual Studio 2003 web deployment project and it’s worked fine for months…then yesterday I got this during installation.

Error reading from file.

It turns out that the new update of Windows Installer is the culprit. I rolled back to version 3.0 and the installer worked correctly. We obviously need a fix for either Windows Installer 3.1 or Visual Studio .NET 2003.

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  1. Makiwa » Blog Archive » Updated: Windows Installer 3.1 breaks VS 2003 Deployment projects Says:
    May 27th, 2005 at 15:59

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