I just installed wpilauncher for the first time. After going through the tedious task of providing user names and passwords for a platoons worth of people it informed me that the product had been previously installed. I found this a novel means of getting software is installed. This Hard Drive has only...

[quote user="PeterSad"] From the log files looks like Visual Basic does not have SP1 applied: Here is the error: 2009-07-16 11:23:47 Slp: Found Microsoft Visual VB 2008 Express edition, language 1033, SP level 0. 2009-07-16 11:23:47 Slp: Microsoft Visual Studio VB 2008 Express edition, language...

Hi Andrew As I said before, I and thousands like me don't get installation media any more as our machines come pre-installed with Windows. Fortunately, when reading the documentation for Visual Web Developer (sorry, I should have done this first), I find you don't need IIS to test web pages on...

Operating System: MS Vista Ultimate - Version 6.0 (Build 6001: Service Pack 1) Downloaded installation file: wpilauncher.exe (version 7.1.0487.0) File downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx (2.0 Beta Version) Brief problem statement: When trying to run Web Platform Installer...

I am installing the Acquia Drupal stack via the MS Web Platform Installer. I'm working via Remote Desktop on a Windows 2003 Server running IIS 6. It already had PHP 5.25 and MySQL 5.0 AND PHPMyAdmin install successfully. I ran the installer, and got a slew of programs that I did not want, and those...

I'm writing a WebPI package that has a method of installation that can be scripted. Can I run this post-install PHP script automatically (it generates the security keys, makes web.config files, etc. though it does not make a database) after the components are installed from WebPI?

I downloaded the Web Deployment Tool and install it. I turned off the existing Apache/MySQL/Skype(Skype also takes port 80 sometimes) servecies on my computer before I start to ensure there will be no issues with them. However when I tried to install/test the Wordpress package I met many problems. I...

I have successfully installed DotNetNuke since. I cleaned up everything that didn't work, rebooted to enable all components that did install correctly and started the WPI again, selecting only DNN. This succeeded; however, only partially, the initail setup to configure DNN failed as well. So again...

I think the new Web Platform Installer has a lot to offer. I particularly like that I can run this application on my production server to get it up to speed with all the comoponents I need, especially with things like the ASP.NET MVC framework being released simultaneously. I did a full review of the...

The final screen after installation shows that following components failed to install with remark: Downloaded file failed signiture verification and may have been tempered with. MySQL Connector/Net 5.2 DotNetNuke® Community Edition PHP However, looking into the WPI log is shows: Location:C:\Documents...