As of December 31, 2022, Microsoft officially retired the Web Platform Installer. The product reached its end of support, and the online feed that populated the tool with software options was largely discontinued.
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The file was small—just a bootstrapper. wpilauncher.exe . He ran it as administrator. For a moment, nothing happened. The hourglass spun. He felt a cold sweat bead on his temple. As of December 31, 2022, Microsoft officially retired
This is a generic MSI error. Restart your machine, disable antivirus temporarily, and run the SQL Server standalone installer from the cache folder ( %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\installers\ ). wpilauncher
For .NET developers, Visual Studio 2022 Community includes IIS Express, SQL Server LocalDB, and all required SDKs out of the box—no separate installer needed.