To convert a string to a GUID, do the following: In C#: Guid MyGuid = new Guid(stringValue); And in VB .NET: Dim MyGuid As Guid = New Guid(stringValue) Best Regards, Kevin McNeish Microsoft .NET MVP President, Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc. Chief Architect of the MM .NET Application Framework
There are a few Visual Studio 2005 bugs that surface when building installation packages on a Windows Vista machine. If your installation package performs a custom action you will get the dreaded “error code 2869” error during installation Exceptions thrown during the install process are obscured I found answers to these problems in Aaron Stebner’s Web Log and at Omar Shahine’s Web Log — thanks to these folks for posting their solutions! Some of the instructions were not as clear as they could be, so I have repeated them here with a few modifications: To fix both of these problems: Download … Continue reading Fixing the Creation of Setup/Deployment Packages on Windows Vista (Fixing the dreaded "error code 2869")
