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Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing
It you are trying to install the Workflow extensions for Visual Studio as per Pail Andrews instructions on http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2006/09/07/745701.aspx you might run into the same problems as I have. The problem occurs while trying to install Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation (Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN).exe) after installing the Visual Studio "Orcas" CTP (vsextwfx.msi). The problem I was having is that the last installer seems to restart the previous one and offers a change/repair/reinstall option, clearly not what I needed. The solution was suggested by Bill McCarthy and that fixed the problem.
 
The solution is to rename the installer "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN).exe" to "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN).zip". Now extract the zip file to a directory and start the install from there. Now you do get the option to install the workflow extensions and everything works as expected.
 
Enjoy the workflow :-)
 
Maurice de Beijer
Published Fri, Sep 22 2006 12:04 by Maurice
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Comments

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:49 AM

Problem solved. Thanks!

by John

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:15 AM

Thanks, solved my problem.  Interestingly enough, it only hit when installing on xp, and not installing in Vista RC1.

by Joe Healy

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Saturday, December 09, 2006 10:22 PM

After renamed "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation (EN).exe" to "Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation (EN).zip", installation was successful, thus the problem solved.

Thanks for the tip!

by Steve Yu

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Monday, December 18, 2006 8:24 AM

Thanks for the tip.

Same problem => Same solution!

Charles

by Charles

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Monday, December 25, 2006 5:46 AM

Thanks .. for the help ... I need to WF very much and was unable to install, thanks for the help

- AnilG

by AnilGopu

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Sunday, February 04, 2007 3:47 AM

This Microsoft WF installation scenario requires that clever trick. Thanks for saving our time!

by Nick Roubinski

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Wednesday, February 21, 2007 5:34 AM

Great

by James

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:09 AM

Great Tip! Thanks for saving time. Needed it badly.:)

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Bharat

by Bharat Sharma

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:48 AM

Problem Solved. Thankx

by Muhammad Muneeb Taher

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Friday, April 13, 2007 6:26 PM

I had been battling the same problem for almost 6hours until I saw this post. It works well, I have started writing my first windows workflow application.

Thanks for your help.

by Ola

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:30 PM

Thanks for the tip. Saved me a lot of time

by Surendra

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:24 PM

I am able to go through the entire process on installing the work flow extensions, however its not showing up in VS 2005 templates?

by John Chambers

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Monday, June 11, 2007 3:21 PM

Top tip - I was really getting narked by this!

by AlasdairCS

# Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Troubleshooting Morning@ Saturday, July 21, 2007 2:16 PM

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation Troubleshooting Morning

by My Blog On .NET

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:30 PM

Ditto on what everyone else has said. I was banging my head against the wall and then found your blog.

Thanks for posting this solution to what appears to be a prevalent problem.

by Vince

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:59 PM

thanks...for your post

by coldblood

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:21 AM

Thank you! After an hour of messing with this problem I came across this post and like everyone else 5 minutes and I am good to go!

by Ish Singh

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Tuesday, October 23, 2007 4:56 AM

AHA finally a good solution to my problem

Thanks!!

by Wimpos

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:02 AM

You da Man! Thanks for the time-saving post.

by Ron

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:13 PM

Thanks :-)

But may I suggest moving to Visual Studio 2008. So much better!

by Maurice

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:31 AM

i don;t think we should move to vs2008

since i don't know how to setup the web part on it.

Thx

by Joule

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:02 PM

Problem still exists, this post solved my problem, thanx

by Kevin

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:53 AM

Thanks for the tip it saved me loads of time, cheers.

by cashback

# re: Installing Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC5(EN) is failing@ Friday, January 16, 2009 2:47 AM

Wow, we're in January 2009 and this post is still useful. Thanks for the tip! Saved me a lot of time.

by willem