how to manually set the $(VSInstallDir) variable ?

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D.Z. Simpson - 22 Nov 2005 22:19 GMT

Something is wrong with my VS2003 installation. I develop apps in C++. Now
the $(VSInstallDir)* paths set in the tools\options\projects\VC_dirs dialog
no longer seem to work correctly. VS cannot compile IDL files unless I
explicitly set the full path instead the $(VAR_NAME) one, e.g. I must insert
in the list C:\Development\Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\Bin. Does
anyone have an idea from where Visual Studio takes the value of VSInstallDir
? Btw. the VCInstallDir variable still works fine...

TIA

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D.Z. Simpson - 24 Nov 2005 10:45 GMT

I've found some values in this registry key pointed to a wrong folder:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\Setup\VS

> Something is wrong with my VS2003 installation. I develop apps in C++. Now
> the $(VSInstallDir)* paths set in the tools\options\projects\VC_dirs
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> TIA

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