Failed NetFx462Redist installation is reported with incorrect error message

[jozefizso]

• Which version of WiX are you building with?

  3.10.3

• Which version of Visual Studio are you building with (if any)?

  Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

• Which version of the WiX Toolset Visual Studio Extension are you building with (if any)?

  3.10

• Which version of .NET are you building with?

  .NET 4.5

• If the problem occurs when installing your packages built with WiX, what is the version of Windows the package is running on?

  Windows Server 2012 R2

• Describe the problem and the steps to reproduce it.

  We have a prereq package NetFx462Redist which will install .NET using the NDP462-KB3151800-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe installer. When the .NET setup is blocked and fails with error code 0x13ec, this code is translated to HRESULT 0x800713ec and bootstrapper UI will display Setup Failed page with error message 0x800713ec - Asia.

• Describe the behavior you expected and how it differed from the actual behavior.

  WiX should report more descriptive error message about failed .NET installation.

[jozefizso]

Log files from failed setup:

https://gist.github.com/jozefizso/bdeaa9f5049f0df50c66b26fdb492c80#file-01_setup-log

[barnson]

Need a WIP to figure out the right UI/behavior.

[glen-nicol]

I ran into this as well attempting to install 4.6.2 redist onto a fresh copy of windows 8.1. Turns out for us based on the error code(5100) and the html log it was KB2919355 missing.

Is there any workaround to show a better error in the meantime?

[sxmanton]

I have also run into this error, installing 4.6 on Windows 8.1. The 0x800713ec - Asia error seems to occur for multiple different reasons that cause the install to fail. One is the KB2919355 issue that others have mentioned. I've also seen it occur when there was not enough free disk space on the machine.

[sxmanton]

I believe part of this issue is that the .net framework installer .exe do not report blocking issues as errors. You can observe this by running one with /passive /showfinalerror flags on a machine which has the KB2919355 issue. The install simply fails quietly and no error is ever shown as you might expect. See this thread for some more details: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/SECURITY/en-US/09c18fc2-afea-47d7-b0fc-7aa22c229a02/blocking-issues-not-shown-when-using-passive-showfinalerror?forum=netfxsetup

[rseanhall]

Seems like this could be handled by #5578