Is there any tool like ELMAH for error gathering of an ASP.NET MVC that, unlike ELMAH, can work indistinctly on x86 and x64. Currently one single ELMAH cannot do that because of its dependency on SQLite which has native code (for one or the other platform and not both).
Even though my setup is fully x64, Casini, the web server used by Visual Studio for coding is, like Visual Studio, x86. So, I'm looking for an alternative to ELMAH.
GAC both versions of SQLite and ELMAH will work just fine - the loader will do the right thing and look up the correct arch for SQLite. Just download both versions, run the Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt as Administrator and run
gacutil -i System.Data.SQLite.dll
with each of them.
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I have the problem described here.
Any attempt to install AspNetDiagnosticPack.msi
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\Microsoft.VisualStudio.AspNetDiagnosticPack.Msi,version=15.0.40314.0\AspNetDiagnosticPack.msi fails with error status: 1603.
I cannot add or remove any component using VS installer now.
I have installed VS 2017 Professional as follows:
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2017
Version 15.6.6
VisualStudio.15.Release/15.6.6+27428.2037
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.7.02558
Installed Version: Professional
Visual C++ 2017 00370-20001-54960-AA753
Microsoft Visual C++ 2017
Visual F# Tools 10.1 for F# 4.1 00370-20001-54960-AA753
Microsoft Visual F# Tools 10.1 for F# 4.1
Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio Package 8.11.10402.2
Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio
ASP.NET and Web Tools 2017 15.0.40314.0
ASP.NET and Web Tools 2017
Azure App Service Tools v3.0.0 15.0.40215.0
Azure App Service Tools v3.0.0
C# Tools 2.7.0-beta3-62715-05. Commit Hash: db02128e6e3c4bdfc93e6ec425ac9162b4d4fe80
C# components used in the IDE. Depending on your project type and settings, a different version of the compiler may be used.
Common Azure Tools 1.10
Provides common services for use by Azure Mobile Services and Microsoft Azure Tools.
Cookiecutter 15.6.18072.2
Provides tools for finding, instantiating and customizing templates in cookiecutter format.
Dotfuscator Community Edition 5.32.1.6167-6ce295ebd
PreEmptive Protection - Dotfuscator CE
JavaScript Language Service 2.0
JavaScript Language Service
JavaScript Project System 2.0
JavaScript Project System
Microsoft Azure Tools 2.9
Microsoft Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 - v2.9.51212.2
Microsoft JVM Debugger 1.0
Provides support for connecting the Visual Studio debugger to JDWP compatible Java Virtual Machines
Microsoft MI-Based Debugger 1.0
Provides support for connecting Visual Studio to MI compatible debuggers
Microsoft Visual C++ Wizards 1.0
Microsoft Visual C++ Wizards
Microsoft Visual Studio VC Package 1.0
Microsoft Visual Studio VC Package
Node.js Tools 1.4.11027.3
Adds support for developing and debugging Node.js apps in Visual Studio
NuGet Package Manager 4.6.0
NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit http://docs.nuget.org/.
ProjectServicesPackage Extension 1.0
ProjectServicesPackage Visual Studio Extension Detailed Info
Python 15.6.18072.2
Provides IntelliSense, projects, templates, debugging, interactive windows, and other support for Python developers.
Python - Django support 15.6.18072.2
Provides templates and integration for the Django web framework.
Python - IronPython support 15.6.18072.2
Provides templates and integration for IronPython-based projects.
Python - Profiling support 15.6.18072.2
Profiling support for Python projects.
SQL Server Data Tools 15.1.61801.210
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools
TypeScript Tools 15.6.20202.3
TypeScript Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio
Visual Basic Tools 2.7.0-beta3-62715-05. Commit Hash: db02128e6e3c4bdfc93e6ec425ac9162b4d4fe80
Visual Basic components used in the IDE. Depending on your project type and settings, a different version of the compiler may be used.
Visual Studio Code Debug Adapter Host Package 1.0
Interop layer for hosting Visual Studio Code debug adapters in Visual Studio
I thought that the problem originated in having some remains from previous VS editions. I could not uninstall namely ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.1. I have finally removed it after all by reinstalling VS 2015 and using the FixIt tool from this answer.. But still AspNetDiagnosticPack.msi fails the same way.
I also tried to uninstall the web development role completely, since I will probably not use it soon, but installation allways fails. Is there any workaround to make the VS installer work again?
The msi log is here.
Action 15:50:02: WebConfigInitialize.
Action start 15:50:02: WebConfigInitialize.
MSI (s) (B8:F4) [15:50:02:244]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSIFF27.tmp, Entrypoint: Initialize
MSI (s) (B8:40) [15:50:02:244]: Generating random cookie.
MSI (s) (B8:40) [15:50:02:244]: Created Custom Action Server with PID 10588 (0x295C).
MSI (s) (B8:14) [15:50:02:306]: Running as a service.
MSI (s) (B8:14) [15:50:02:306]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Impersonated custom action server.
SFXCA: Failed to create new CA process via RUNDLL32. Error code: 2
CustomAction WebConfigInitialize returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
Action ended 15:50:02: WebConfigInitialize. Return value 3.
But the problem is within custom action WebConfigInitialize and the log is no big help. I have observed that there was an entry Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015.1 - Visual Studio 2015 when I ran the uninstaller tool - and this entry failed uninstalling. Perhaps the origin of my problems is that I once installed some beta verison of ASP.NET with Visual Studio 2015. I do not need ASP.NET for now, but I the VS 2017 installer is stuck on the error.
I have found WebToolsExtensionsVS14_rc2_48.msi in cached packages on my computer and uninstalling this package fails the same way with 1603 as the 2017 current package.
Action 8:30:41: WebConfigInitialize.
Action start 8:30:42: WebConfigInitialize.
MSI (s) (48:BC) [08:30:42:012]: Creating MSIHANDLE (550) of type 790542 for thread 1980
MSI (s) (48:F0) [08:30:42:012]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSIA2E1.tmp, Entrypoint: Initialize
MSI (s) (48!A0) [08:30:42:028]: Creating MSIHANDLE (551) of type 790531 for thread 928
SFXCA: Failed to create new CA process via RUNDLL32. Error code: 2
MSI (s) (48!A0) [08:30:42:028]: Closing MSIHANDLE (551) of type 790531 for thread 928
CustomAction WebConfigInitialize returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
MSI (s) (48:F0) [08:30:42:028]: Closing MSIHANDLE (550) of type 790542 for thread 1980
Action ended 8:30:42: WebConfigInitialize. Return value 3.
Similar problem here, that one ended with reninstalling his machine.
Or is there some tool that would show the dependencies of a particular MSI package?
The Developer's community link that is current and relevant to the problem is here.
It says:
We have fixed the problem in an upcoming release. We've addressed the
managed custom action in the ASP.NET Diagnostic Pack that modifies the
root web.config file to use a native code action. This should avoid
the CLR errors previously reported when it tried to launch the managed
code DLL during the install.
The fix for this is now in our latest Visual Studio Preview release.
If you'd like to try out the fix, you can access the preview build
here: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/preview
Looks like there is no workaround except waiting for Microsoft's fix to that faliling custom action. I have ignored this recommendation at first because I did not check the date of comments properly but they are only one month old.
But when I have tried to install the preview it ended with exactly the same error.
In 15.7.1 version the same error again.
UPDATE: It looks like the issue might be a managed code custom action failing in the MSI in question (.NET code that can't run - for whatever reason 1, 2, 3).
Suggestion
I would first try to 1) do the reboot I recommend below - to clear the air and release any locks - then 2) disable security software / anti-virus and 3) try the install and enable logging as described below.
Core Deployment Problems
As deployment goes, problems tend to center around: 1) something is locked (in use - by other processes or other users logged on), 2) something is blocked (access / permissions denied), 3) dependencies are missing for your custom actions or the whole installer (runtime requirements not satisfied - for example missing .NET runtime version), 4) something is corrupted (data file, OS settings, malware is often the culprit here - or unwise tinkering), 5) there is an unexpected system state such as the disk being full, or more exotic the date and time is wrong, or there is a licensing issue or some other oddity, etc...
That is a very simplified list of causes - there are obviously many further issues, for example 6) localization errors: hard coded paths, erroneous parsing of dates and time, invalid characters in path names, etc... 7) file and path names are too long, 8) and the Microsoft specialty: weird and unexpected incompatibilities between products not thought to have a valid reason to conflict with each other (different versions of Visual Studio, etc...), etc..., but that is going way too far for your problem. Still, here is a generic "deployment problems" summary from some time back - just for reference.
Procedure
Reboot: The first thing I would do is to reboot and then try to invoke the install the regular way. This is just to rule out this "simple solution" (which sometimes works). There could be files in use that the installer must replace in order to complete.
Logging: In order to maximize the available debugging information you could log the install with verbose logging and debugging information (if you have access to the MSI itself).
Open an elevated command prompt (right click and run as administrator)
Change current directory (cd) until you get to: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\Microsoft.VisualStudio.AspNetDiagnosticPack.Msi,version=15.0.40314.0\
MSI Log: Run this command (adjusting paths as appropriate - especially for the log file): msiexec.exe /i AspNetDiagnosticPack.msi /L*vx C:\Test.log
Enable All: You can enable logging for all MSI files (slows installs, but great for advanced users): http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msifaq/a/1022.htm (section: "Globally for all setups on a machine")
Interpret: How to interpret an MSI log file: http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msifaq/a/1045.htm
Event Log: You can also have a look in the event log. Rather than repeating the procedure here, I will link to a similar, recent answer.
Different User: This is unusual advice (and I haven't tried it), but sometimes you can succeed with difficult installs by creating a new local admin user on the machine, and then running the installer from there. It has to do with errors in the user profile. Not the first thing to try, but adding it as an option.
I tried to uninstall VS 2019(!) and I faced the same problem (I cannot add or remove any component using VS installer).
It hang for a long time and finally throwed an error at "AspNetDiagnosticPack.msi".
I found a solution that led me also to
%programdata%Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\Microsoft.VisualStudio.AspNetDiagnosticPack.Msi,version=16.3.283.64955
I simply ran the msi stand alone. During the process I was asked to do kind of clean up for an outstanding installation issue.
After that I ran the uninstall ( And later the reinstallation ) of VS 2019 again and it worked.
Maybe this solution helps you along with VS 2017
I am trying to figure out if it is possible to use Visual Studio 2012 as a full linux development suite. I know this is not the regular question here but work with me. What i have so far is the ability to use Visual Studio as a text editor to edit inside a virtual machine of Linux running on my computer.
The way that I have done this is to set up a permanent ssh portal that acts as as a hard drive in my windows. I have done this using a program called WebDrive:
So that is cool, it means I have the ability to fully view my Linux c++ project from Visual Studio. This provides all of the cool c++ editing things that i like about visual studio.
So where to from here?
Basically what I have now is a heavy glorified text editor.
What I would like to do is get the whole 'shabam' working.
I would like to be able to compile and run code from visual studio remotely on a server address. Is it possible? The code is built with cmake and g++ compiler?
Your best bet would be http://www.wingdb.com/. WinGDB allows working within VS studio and compiling on a remote Linux machine directly. Full step through debugging within VS is supported. For DLLs you can attach to remote process running on your Linux build server within VS. Great solution for working within the kinder VS dev environment but still having the full power of the Linux dev stack. Auto-generation of makefiles via VS project files too. Hope this helps.
I have a compiled an older C++ program that runs fine in debug mode in VS2010 converted to VC++ 6 but I have no idea how to package or deploy the application.
VS2010 may not have anything to do with deploying the program at all but I thought I should mention it.
The "release" folder not only contains the executable but some "obj", "tlog", "vc100.pdb", "exe.intermediate.manifest" and "lastbuildstate".
This application is being installed on Windows Mobile OS (hopefully). It isn't as simple as copying the executable to the device is it?
Do I need to create a cab file or msi and, if so, how?
I am absolutely new at this being spoiled in C# and MVC for far too long!
Visual Studio 2010 does not have any of the Smart Device compilers (managed or native) required to even build for Windows Mobile (not Windows Phone). You must use Visual Studio 2008 to build, deploy and/or debug.
EDIT
FWIW, Studio 2012 will have support for Smart Devices (Studio 2010 still won't get support) in Q1 of next year. Backward-compatibility has yet to be announced, but it's always possible that you'll be able to develop for WinMo devices using the ARM compiler. There's a video here detailng some of the features.
Have you done a search on google yet? While I don't know anything about deploying to a windows phone, a quick google search found a few hits.
I searched for 'deploy windows phone app' and found a few things. Among which are:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/gg588378(v=vs.92).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff928362(v=vs.92).aspx
Last of all, it looks like this has been asked before on this website. For instance:
Can you install you own apps on your windows 7 phone
I've recently obtained an HTC Desire and I'm interested in porting my 3D engine to the device. I have a slight annoyance however. I'd love to be able to do development under Visual Studio 2008. Am I to assume I'm going to need to re-process my SLN files to do GCC builds? Its not a vast issue as I already have an application that processes SLN and VCProj files through GCC and then links them together at the other end. I'll just need to set up the right libraries with it.
Are there any other gotchas I need to think about? Or, indeed, is there an easier way?
Any info would be much appreciated!
Cheers :)
You will need to use your own or the NDK supplied build system. I believe Visual Studio can be set up to call external commands to build. You can of course use Visual Studio as the code editor, and call the NDK supplied make on the Makefile to build your application. You can't use Visual Studio as a debugger.
Im not used with VS. Using it to develop android apps sounds like pain to me. Main reason is that i dont think it got any plugins for android as Eclipse does. I guess you can use it as pure Java IDE (??), but still... building, editing and syntax hightlighting, code-autocomplete, etc etc... will be missing...
Follow the instructions on using Ant to do builds and you should be able to figure out how to make the VS build process drive your apps.
I don't understand the desire to use such a terrible code editor, but anyone trying to set up their IDE to build Android apps should start with the Ant stuff that they document.
Simply Put,
XCode + Eclipse + Carbide etc all cannot match the debugging environment of Visual Studio, GDB simply sucks our time.
These workaround tools just slow down the working process, to be honest working in xcode or esp eclipse seems like your thinking process is being overtaken by the management of bloatware that is required to manage the development in these forsaken IDE's. However Visual Studio development is more responsive and the IDE always seem to be prepared for any of your explorations
Regards
Bil
I am developing an application using Windows Mobile 5.0, under embedded VC++ 4.0, and using the emulator for debugging. I need to copy some files onto the emulator and planned on using the option to map a directory to the emulator storage card. Problem is, this option is greyed out when I run the emulator. From the emulator help i get
'On the Emulator, run a Windows CE OS that supports the ability to connect to a directory on the development workstation. '
How do I accomplish this? I have seen the command line option /sharedfolder but can't get at this from platform manager under EVC++ 4.0. All comments welcome.
I have the WinMo 5.0 SDK installed on Visual Studio 2005 and the option to map a directory works fine for me. I'd guess it's an issue related to eVC, which is pretty old by now. My recommendation is to try VS 2005 or 2008, there's a free 90-day trial you can download from microsoft:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx
Also, I'd note that VS is way better than eVC in many aspects. I used eVC and them moved to VS 2005, many "heavy templates" I had which wouldn't compile in eVC were compiled OK in VS 2005.