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Ton - 11 Apr 2007 19:50 GMT

I've had a lot of trouble installing VS2005 on a VISTA enviroment. Fisrt I
had to find the adminitstrator account to install VS2005 (again), then I had
to install SP1 AND SP! for Vista (was I stupid that I thougt it was a
choice). We need both. And last thing is an error running VS with VB in the
Hello world example.
Just a form, Just a butto with the msgbox " hello World"

start running in debug I get:
Error when trying to run the project: .....

A Visual Studio DLL coloader80.dll is not correctly installed. Please repair
.....
If the problem persists etc.

I' reinstalled it several times. Still no solution. BTW I'm now not running
on the administraor account, but on the users account with administor rights.

A second problem is that the Visual Studio Developer News is empty, because
there is no connection with the internet. Offcourse there is. But why doesn't
VS know this.

I hope to get answers soon

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pvdg42 - 12 Apr 2007 16:40 GMT

> I've had a lot of trouble installing VS2005 on a VISTA enviroment. Fisrt I
> had to find the adminitstrator account to install VS2005 (again), then I
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> I hope to get answers soon

I believe you're dealing with the leftovers of the first, botched,
installation.
I know you don't want to hear it, but here's what I'd do in your situation
(FWIW, I have VS 2005 installed and working fine with a wide variety of
project types on two Vista Ultimate machines here).

Completely remove VS 2005 and all the supporting products that were
installed. By completely, I mean first use the automatic uninstallers in the
recommended sequence, then manually delete leftover files and folders from
the installation location(s), THEN use regedit to find and remove all
registry entries for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. If you do this,
your next install (of the necessary pieces in the correct order) will be a
truly new install.

If that process fails, the distasteful last resort is wipe the drive,
reinstall Vista clean, then install VS 2005.

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Ton - 13 Apr 2007 09:10 GMT

I've allready tried this. But maybe I've forgotten related products. Can you
give me all product names which should be removed. And when I m ready to
start in the registry. Should I look at VS2005 for key's, data values or
what? And then just remove.

As I allready explained as user Ton (admin rights) I can start Vs2005, but
as administor starting is impossible, because VS cant get in the registry.
Very confusing. Should I remove the registry key's as user Ton or as user
Administrator

> > I've had a lot of trouble installing VS2005 on a VISTA enviroment. Fisrt I
> > had to find the adminitstrator account to install VS2005 (again), then I
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> If that process fails, the distasteful last resort is wipe the drive,
> reinstall Vista clean, then install VS 2005.

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pvdg42 - 13 Apr 2007 12:50 GMT

> I've allready tried this. But maybe I've forgotten related products. Can
> you
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> Very confusing. Should I remove the registry key's as user Ton or as user
> Administrator

These instructions were originally for pre-release versions, but can be
applied with common sense mods to the release version.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718704.aspx

These are the standard instructions:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246604(VS.80).aspx

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Ton - 13 Apr 2007 16:44 GMT

I've done what you've suggested. Removed all components, even from the
registry. All was clean. Installed VS2005 VS2005 SP1 and VS 2005 SP1 for
Vista. I did this on the administrator account. Run all setup files as
Administrator.
Result. No difference

As administrator I can't run VS2005 because an error is found a part of the
registry or something. I was able to continu. Just the fornm a button "hello
world" and the known error with the dll was not correct installed.....

I DO NOT WANT TO REPLACE VISTA

surely there mus be a reason why it is not working

please help

> > I've allready tried this. But maybe I've forgotten related products. Can
> > you
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> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246604(VS.80).aspx

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pvdg42 - 13 Apr 2007 21:35 GMT

> I've done what you've suggested. Removed all components, even from the
> registry. All was clean. Installed VS2005 VS2005 SP1 and VS 2005 SP1 for
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> please help

I hope for your sake that somebody else chimes in with a better idea. I'm
afraid I have nothing else to offer.
I hope you are able to resolve it without the ultimate step.

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Ton - 18 Apr 2007 20:38 GMT

can anyone help me. I've moved to a "repairpoint?" from the backup center, to
the situation before I've started to install VS2005. And installed everything
again. Nothing helped

I stil receive the error. And even on the Administor logon the system has
trouble writing somthing in the registry section.

> > I've done what you've suggested. Removed all components, even from the
> > registry. All was clean. Installed VS2005 VS2005 SP1 and VS 2005 SP1 for
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> afraid I have nothing else to offer.
> I hope you are able to resolve it without the ultimate step.

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