I am trying to install the Guidance Automation Extensions Feb 2008 release and getting an error. The error is "Error 1001: Object reference not set to an instance of an object".I had an earlier version of GAXinstalled for VS2005 and had toremove some registry entries and msi cleanup tool to uninstall the earlier version. Now trying to install GuidanceAutomationExtensions.exe I get the error above. I am running XP SP 2. Does anyone have a solution? I appreciate the help.

Discovered what the issue was... The file "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Recipe Framework\ReceipeFramework.xml"was missing the tags<GuidancePackage>

Discovered what the issue was... The file "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Recipe Framework\ReceipeFramework.xml"was missing the tags<GuidancePackage>

Copy the below xml into the file mentioned above and reinstall GAX. That worked for me... Of course, make a copy of the current file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RecipeFramework SchemaVersion="1.0" TraceLevel="Error" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/gax-manifest">
<Hosts>
<Host Name="VisualStudio" InstallerType="Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio.RecipeFrameworkInstaller, Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio" />
</Hosts>
<GuidancePackages>
</GuidancePackages>
</RecipeFramework>