Installing Msxml3 Sp5
Compatibility – We do our best to maintain compatibility across versions of MSXML, however earlier versions of MSXML like MSXML 3 and MSXML 4 were implemented during the “wild west” of the XML emergence and we’ve learned a lot since then. In addition, MSXML5 for Microsoft Office Applications was targeted specifically at Office scenarios. Sometimes we do need to make design or implementation changes that affect behavior across MSXML versions. By iterating through the versions of MSXML you open your app up to more potential risk of “finding” one of the differences unexpectedly.
Test cost – The more versions of MSXML your application potentially depends on means more versions to test your application with before you can ship it to your customers. My goal for this post is to give a quick history of MSXML lifecycle and versions, provide details with an example on implementing best practices with MSXML on the web, and talk about a couple key things to watch out for.
- If you install MSXML 6.0 SDK, by default your directory will be C: Program Files MSXML 6.0, with subdirectories named inc and lib. Redistributing MSXML Overview When you write applications that use MSXML, you might also need to redistribute MSXML along with your application.
- Hi, I can't install this merge module into System32 folder -. The installer always set the files to my INSTALLDIR I've tried to do 2 things:] 1.Change the.
If you want the full story please read on, but if you’re short on time and want the quick scoop here it is in 4 bullets:. MSXML 5.0 for Microsoft Office Applications is purpose-built for Office applications and isn’t intended for broad deployment. Internet Explorer 7 actually has the MSXML5 components in the Internet zone so your customers will get a goldbar for each MSXML5 control on a page if your code tries to instantiate it.
How to fix msxml3.dll. Windows XP SP2 includes MSXML 3.0 SP5 as part of. Which means that installing this version of the parser will not cause any previously.
The best recommendation is to avoid MSXML5 in your web apps (only machines with Office 2003 or higher will have it, anyway.). MSXML Lifecycle & History OK, the full story requires a little bit more context – so let’s cover the different versions of MSXML, where they ship, and what the long term strategy is. Over the long run, the goal is to have our customers move their applications to MSXML6.
In terms of deployment, we want to ship our technology 'in-the-box' with the operating system so that page authors and app developers can take advantage of it with zero deployment. However, our customers have told us they want symmetrical XML APIs on all supported OS platforms, so we still need a way to get the newest XML technologies to our downlevel OSes (Win2k, Win XP, and Win 2k3). MSXML6 will be part of the Vista operating system when it releases, but requires a redistributable package to be installed downlevel. We’d like to get MSXML6 “inlined” in the next service pack of each of the downlevel OSes, but we need a strong business case to do so.
So in the short and medium term we will continue to ship a redistributable package for MSXML6 that can be installed on downlevel operating systems. We'll try to get a post up on the benefits of moving to MSXML6 sometime soon. As much as we'd love everyone to be on MSXML6 today, we realize the migration can take some time.
So we're continuing to invest in MSXML3 to support existing applications and applications that have zero deployment requirements. MSXML3 doesn't have all the improvements in MSXML6, but developers should consider it a robust and stable platform for MSXML applications. MSXML3 is already part of the operating system on a fully patched Win2k SP4 installation and higher so in general no deployment to the client is required. Going forward, MSXML3 updates will come out in each of the OS service packs. MSXML3 SP7 is the last update to MSXML3 that should ship in redistributable form and in the future no redistributable package should be necessary for our partners and customers to use MSXML3 functionality.
MSXML4 was a predecessor to MSXML6 but hasn't ever shipped in the operating system. MSXML6 is a significant step forward in terms of reliability, security, W3C and System.Xml compatibility, and it also has support for native 64-bit environments. Right now we are investing much more heavily in MSXML6 and MSXML3 and we're encouraging our customers to move to 6 when possible and 3 when necessary.
Finally, anyone using MSXML5 who isn’t writing applications specifically targeted at Microsoft Office 2003 or Microsoft Office 2007 should migrate to MSXML6. The details Once you pick a version of MSXML to use, how do you do it effectively?
MSXML ships side-by-side with version dependent ProgIDs. That means two things:. ProgIDs are locked to their version - If you want your app to take advantage of your new MSXML6 installation you need to instantiate your MSXML objects using the. Var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject( 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0') //uses MSXML 3.0 var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject( 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0') //uses MSXML 6.0 One related note - service packs of a particular version of MSXML are not side by side and will upgrade that version of MSXML to the service pack version. For example, if your computer is running MSXML3 SP5 and you install MSXML3 SP7, all applications that use MSXML3 will automatically be upgraded to run on 3 SP7. Ideally, customers should standardize on MSXML6, but as mentioned above legacy applications or zero-deployment requirements may block full migration to MSXML6 in the short run.
In this case there are two tensions that need to be balanced – functionality and test costs. This essentially leads to two options:. Version Independent ProgIDs – There’s a lot of confusion around the “version-independent” ProgID for MSXML.
The version-independent ProgID is always bound to MSXML 3 (a lot of people think it picks up the latest MSXML that is on the box). This means the version independent ProgID and the “3.0” ProgIDs will return the same object. For example both statements in the following code will return an MSXML 3 DOMDocument: var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject( 'Msxml2.DOMDocument.3.0') and var xmlDOM = new ActiveXObject( 'Msxml2.DOMDocument').
Microsoft namespace – I’ve also seen a lot of code that instantiates the “Microsoft.XMLHTTP” ActiveX object rather than the MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0 or MSXML2.XMLHTTP.6.0 if you’re using 6.0. The “Microsoft” namespace is actually older and is only implemented in MSXML3 for legacy support. It’s unfortunate we used the “better” name on the older version, but stick to the “msxml2” namespace when instantiating objects. As always, I'd love to get some feedback from people so if you have questions, comments, or random thoughts you'd like to share please comment here or mail me directly (email link above). Adam Wiener Lead Program Manager Data Programmability/XML Technologies. Hi Adam, Thanks for the great post.
Some of the mud is getting clearer! I have a very large AJAX application (well, suite of applications) that together comprise a corporate intranet (I’ll omit the company). Currently that site is set to use MSXML4 SP2. If I change my tags to install the MSXML6 CAB and if I change my ProgIDs to the 6.0 equivalents, what kind of compatibility problems am I likely to encounter?
Is there a comparison document/table between the latest MSXML 6 and MSXML4 SP2 that I can refer to in order to assess the risk of such a transition? Andrew Eberhard. I run Windows 2000 Professional Sp4, and I much appreciate your clarification that MSXML 4 Sp2 is NOT the preferred fallback MSXML version below MSXML 6.0. So I will upgrade my three Win2k computers to MSXML 6.0 (without the SDK since I am not a software developer in any way), provided that MSXML 6.0 works not only with MSIE 7 (which I believe will not be available for Win2k) but also with MSIE 6 Sp1 in Win2k. I urge you to explicitly include somewhere that MSXML 6.0 DOES (or does not) work with MSIE 6 Sp1.
Roger Folsom. Thanks for this post, it explains some of the issues we had with our xml editor (Xopus) in IE7. However, your statement to use either MSXML3 or MSXML6 contradicts my experiences.
In Xopus we need XMLHTTPRequest, XSLT 1.0 support and SchemaCache. AFAIK doesn’t MSXML3 fully support XSLT 1.0 and has no SchemaCache object so we can’t use it. MSXML4 and 5 work well for us, Office 2003 is widely spread, especially amongst our user base.
We haven’t had issues with MSXML5 due to it’s specialization towards Office. MSXML6 has breaking changes in SchemaCache (Support for Partial Schemas and Schema flattening) that requires us to rearchitecture our validation infrastructure. We haven’t found the resources to do this yet. So we ended up supporting only MSXML4 and 5, the exact opposite of what you’re suggesting. Now with IE7 we seem to be forced to drop MSXML5 support as well. Why shouldn’t we support MSXML4, MSXML5 only in IE6 and MSXML6 as soon as possible? Benjamin, XHTML support is something we’re looking at right now in both MSXML and System.Xml.
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Thanks for the great pointer to the analysis on the Satoshii site – I love getting the feedback on what people are experiencing with our products in the real world. The IGNORE issue is still there and we don’t support HTML entities without a declaration in the DTD ( is the most famous).
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In terms of resolving externals we will resolve relative to the resource URL in MSXML6 – it simplifies our security model particularly in the browser and ensures malicious documents can’t harm browsers when they are surfing. Best Regards, Adam Wiener Lead Program Manager Data Programmability / XML Technologies.
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Our AJAX application was trying to instantiate msxml2.xmlhttp.5.0, then falling back to msxml2.xmlhttp.3.0. After installing the MS06-061 Security patch we were no longer able to read the responseText of our XHR objects using xmlhttp.5.0 when the http status was 400. This forced us to change to either msxml2.xmlhttp.6.0 or msxml2.xmlhttp.3.0 objects (for future releases), but breaks all of our existing MS Office customers with the security patch installed. The existing, functioning file @ Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/OFFICE11/msxml5.dll was replaced with version 5.10.2930.0.
Has anyone else had problems with this? Hi Erik, in general Win9x is no longer in support – see for details. In terms of what IE will support and what ships in the box with IE are two different things.
For example IE6 ships with MSXML3 (an old version) but will support MSXML3, 4, 5, and 6 (our guidance is to use 3 or 6). As I mentioned above our goal is to distribute MSXML through Windows so when a new IE hits your machine, scripts in web pages will already be able to take advantage of the latest and greatest MSXML available. As for KB 269238 I agree it’s confusing – I’ll work on getting that cleaned up so it reflects the information that we’ve got here in the blog. Best Regards, Adam Wiener Lead Program Manager XML Technologies / Data Programmability. While the inclusion of a native object for xmlhttp is preferred to the ActiveX method, I would like to see this being taken further with a native xmldom object too. The reason for this is to solve the problem that Carl comments on.
My situation is as follows: My xmldom object is created via ActiveX and thus has to have a version specified while my xmlhttp request on IE7 uses the native object, because there is no way to detect the version of msxml that is being used there is a case where an xmldom object and the xmlhttp object will be created by using different versions. Yes, there are solutions (some may call them ‘hacks’) to resolve the problem, but in essence (and imo, of course) MS has shown a lack of vision when only porting xmlhttp to native. Until both xmldom and xmlhttp are both native, I will stick with forcing all IE versions to use ActiveX.
Regards, Ric. There’s an entry on IEBlog that provides some suggestions as to how to best do xmlhttprequests: My question is wouldn’t they be better off using Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0 / Msxml2.XMLHTTP instead of Microsoft.XMLHTTP? Also, I have a question about this: It suggests that Microsoft.XMLHTTP is bound MSXML 2.
It makes no mention of whether or not Msxml2.XMLHTTP is also bound to MSXML 2 (which would mean that two things would be bound to it), let alone whether or not it’s bound to MSXML 1. If it’s not bound to either, how can Msxml2 be version independent? It’s not bound to anything greater than MSXML 3, per this blog entry, and if it weren’t bound to anything less than MSXML 3, either, it would seem that it is, in fact, quite 'version dependent'. How I do to run this code?
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Hi, Can any body tell me how to install msxml 3.0 parser merger module which is in the following link on windows 2003 server? I am not a Developer or a programmer.
I just want to know the simple steps to be followed in order to install this module. When I open this file I am getting a file named msxml3.msm, which I have to install. I tried to run the xmlinst and it says some other processes are using the file called msxml3.dll. So can I stop those other processes? Is this the correct process to be followed when installing this parser module? Please let me know. The user does not.need.
the merge module. Merge Modules are only used when a person creating an MSI (usually an application repacker or developer) wants to create an MSI (Microsoft Installer) based installation. Merge Modules (msm) are not stand alone installations and cannot be used as such.
Here's a brief overview of Merge Modules for ' - take special notice of the last paragraph. From: What Are Merge Modules? Merge modules are a feature of Windows Installer that provide a standard method for delivering components, insuring that the correct version of a component is installed. A merge module contains a component, such as a.dll, along with any related files, resources, registry entries, and setup logic. Merge modules are essentially simplified.msi files, which is the file name extension for a Windows Installer installation package. A standard merge module has an.msm file name extension. A merge module cannot be installed alone because it lacks some vital database tables that are present in an installation database.
Merge modules also contain additional tables that are unique to themselves. To install the information delivered by a merge module with an application, the module must first be merged into the application's.msi file.
The user almost certainly needs Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 3.0 Service Pack 5 (SP5) installed: Regards.