Visual Studio 2010 Setup Project compiled on Windows 7 doenst work on Windows XP

Question

I've created a Visual Studio 2010 Setup Project, which installs a Windows Service. The Setup Project targets the x86 Platform.
When i compile the Setup Project on Windows 7 (x64) i cannot use the Setup on Windows XP (the MSI will run, but i get an error during the Install). If i compile the Setup on Windows XP it works on XP and Windows 7 as well.

Is this a known issue? All our developer PCs are running Windows 7 x64 but we have to support Windows Xp too. So is there another solution, than compile on Windows XP only?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I can do this proceed successfully.

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Create this solution in my Windows 7 x64 system with the Visual Studio 2010, and then open my Windows XP x86, and execute the setup.exe to install the application, everything is OK. And the setup1.msi also works fine.

If you also cannot let it work, then please share me the screenshot when you got the error, and then try to use this to record the installation log, and share the log file to us.[msiexec /i setup1.msi /lv* d:\a.log]

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Mike Zhang[MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

I investigated a bit further and found the reason for my problem. The problem is, that i had installed Visual Studio 11 Beta. So all the msis i created on my machine contained different "InstallUtil.ibd" and "MSVBDPCADLL.ibd". On a newly installed machine with Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 everything works fine.

Thank you for your help.

Answer 3

You're welcome!

I'm glad to hear that you solve it, and thanks for sharing out your experience.

Best wishes,

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Mike Zhang[MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us