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Whats New with RC2?

April 26, 2017RC2

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Whats New with RC2?

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Apparently there have been a few issues with the ASP.NET MVC installations. Some are wondering if Microsoft hasn’t been actively building a solid MSI Installer for MVC from the beginning, thus the reason for RC2. According to Phil Haack it isn’t the installer that is the problem but more often related to devenv /setup or ngen.exe. On his blog he says “For the most part, the installations for ASP.NET MVC have been quite stable and we’ve tested the installer at every release and 99% of the problems we’ve run into fall into those two buckets.” He goes on to say that RC2 was based on a change to the installer not to a bug. What he does provide though, is an approach to look at the makeup of an MSI installer for those who really want to understand how it works. His blog entry (linked above) offers a troubleshooting guide to installers with a focus on the ASP.NET MVC installer.