about to give up on trying to install WPI. At first I thought it was that .net4, so I did a stand-alone install it took a while but it was successfully accomplished. I then tried to run WPI install, both before and after a reboot but the log file shows the same thing. Can somebody interpret the log for me and let me know what the problems are? where I can I best upload the log file for such examination? Any volunteers? Thank you. Ross

What is WPI? You can upload a log on my IT site, I allow attachments. My MVP is for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 IT, and I am getting increasingly good with Visual Studio. Developer | Windows IT | Chess | Economics | Hardcore Games | Vegan Advocate | PC Reviews

where should I upload it, actually?

My forums support attachments, within a reasonable size. You need to be a member of my forum to post and upload an attachment. My MVP is for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 IT, and I am getting increasingly good with Visual Studio. Developer | Windows IT | Chess | Economics | Hardcore Games | Vegan Advocate | PC Reviews

where should I upload it, actually? to your SkyDrive: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/4fc10639-02db-4665-993a-08d865088d65 Do you mean Windows Platform Installer with WPI? if yes, as in the MSDN forums: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/categories"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

I have uploaded it to your forum. I have downloaded WPI from Microsoft but it will not install. Interesting aside: why do you not accept .txt files? Ross

I have also uploaded this to my SkyDrive in a folder called logs, made publicly read-only

you must post the link to your public folder here."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Either you have a corrupt file download or something on your particular system causing the problem. I just downloaded it from http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx and installed it on my Windows 7 Professional x64 system with absolutely no errors.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

http://cid-fe8f7d06cb5f5fd5.office.live.com/browse.aspx/logs This ok? Ross

I downloaded a fresh copy and I got the same result! I'm going to upload a new log file to my SkyDrive into a public folder called "AndreLog" url: http://cid-fe8f7d06cb5f5fd5.office.live.com/richupload.aspx/AndreLog?nl=1 ok?

Hi Ross, Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 Web Tools failed: MSI (s) (44:4C) [11:44:27:129]: Product: Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 Web Tools ENU -- Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServerCe.VersionManagement,FileVersion="4.0.8482.1" ,version="4.0.0.0",culture="neutral",publicKeyToken="89845DCD8080CC91",processorArchitecture="MSIL"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x8002802F . assembly interface: , function: CreateAssemblyCache, component: {7323EE6C-4C4D-4996-94BB-B757FDDCF350} // // MessageId: TYPE_E_DLLFUNCTIONNOTFOUND // // MessageText: // // Function not defined in specified DLL. // #define TYPE_E_DLLFUNCTIONNOTFOUND _HRESULT_TYPEDEF_(0x8002802F L) I don't know why it fails. here is the official WPI forums: http://forums.iis.net/1155.aspx as there for support, please! André"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/