Day 2: WCF, WPE, WPF Vista SDK installation
Having at least gotten the development site running again after last nights installation issues. I discovered after re-booting, that Visual Studio would no longer launch. It would bring up the splash screen but nothing else.
.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7C812A5B) (800703e9)
Was shown in the event log. ASPNET_REGIIS was not the answer unfortunately.
So to fix what I had done - I re-installed all of the Windows SDK, Visual Studio Extensions for all the .Net 3.0 add-ins. Still no fix.
Re-Install SP1 for Visual Studio? Indeed - seemed the next logical step less repairing the Visual Studio installation and loosing all the updates etc. Maybe I should have a virtual machine set-up like Dan suggested just to test these things out. As it stands now 2 hours this morning re-installing and another 1.5 hours with the re-install of SP1.
The Next two steps after placing the error message above in google search was that re-installing WCF and WPF/E. The WCF portion I simply did a repair and the WPF/E apparently wasn't detected as installed. That fixed Visual Studio and now it launches. And there is no re-appearance of the initial error that prompted this whole two day scenario.
So, there is now WCF for me! Hopefully this helps solve some of the issues for anyone that runs into this.