Microsoft Web Platform Installer couldn’t find the product you tried to install

SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager – Microsoft Web Platform Installer couldn’t find the product you tried to install.

If you download the installer from the official Microsoft Download Center and run the installer, you may receive this error message “Microsoft Web Platform Installer couldn’t find the product you tried to install.”

Microsoft Web Platform Installer couldn’t find the product
The product has renamed the “Workflow Manager 1.0″ to “Microsoft Manager 1.0 Refresh” and it just breaks the installer. The easiest way to download the installer is search on the Microsoft Web Platform Installer.

On the top right corner, enter “Workflow Manager 1.0″. It will return few results and select “Workflow Manager 1.0 Refresh” to proceed the SharePoint 2013 Workflow Manager installation.

I hope Microsoft will fix the links soon.

Workflow Manager 1.0 Refresh

SharePoint Event Receiver Manager for SharePoint 2013

Recently, I was helping one of my clients to upgrade their SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2013.

They were using SharePoint Event Receiver Manager (2007/2010) to register and un-register the event receiver in their SharePoint 2010 environment (https://speventreceiverman.codeplex.com). The tool requires some updates to work with the SharePoint 2013 with Windows 2012.

GAC.cs Line 184 and 225: Update the directory to “”C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL” spevthkman.cs Line 465: string eventName = definition.Type.ToString();