I installed Visual Studio Pro 2005 from my MSDN CD's. About 3/4 of the way
through disk two, I got the following error:
Error 1911.Could not register type library for file C:\Program Files\Visual
Studio 8\Common7\IDE\vsmacros.dll
I tried 'retry' a couple of times, then 'ignore'. Setup went a little
further and then another error:
Error 1911.Could not register type library for file C:\Program Files\Visual
Studio 8\VC\vcpackages\VCProjectEngine.dll
Again, I hit 'retry' a couple of times, then 'ignore'. Setup went a little
further and then got more errors, different filenames. I thought that maybe
I had a bad CD, so I eventually hit 'abort'. Setup then seemed to hang up
and not respond, so it didn't finish the rollback/uninstall. I looked in
'add/remove programs' but it didn't show up, so I deleted the files in the
install directory manually.
Then I downloaded the DVD .iso version from my MSDN subscription area,
mounted the .iso and tried it again. Same errors in the same spots. This
time I just hit 'ignore' every time and let it finish the installation. VS
will load, but any type of error during an installation, especially one where
I have to skip files, concerns me. I also installed the MSDN Library off the
same mounted iso and also got a couple of 'could not read file' errors, but I
hit retry and and it completed installation.
This is on a Windows XP Pro 2003 machine that is a pretty new and clean
installation, in fact there isn't much else installed on this machine yet.
It has plenty of RAM. C Drive is running a little short on drive space,
right around 2GB free, but there is plenty of space on another drive, which
is where I was installing it to.
Any idea what would cause this or how I can fix it? I really need to get
started working on this machine. Any help will be appreciated.
Pedro Farinha - 18 May 2007 00:55 GMT
Hi!
I am having the EXACT same problem, even with the exact same files and I
also have about 5 GB(4.8GB) on my C: drive and 26GB free on my secondary
drive (the one I'm installing VS 2005 - it's an EXT2 partition but I think it
has nothing to do with this).
I tried to extract the files from the ISOs to install them directly without
mounting the ISO, but I still have the errors installing. I don't care about
the errors, as long as VS works well. The problem is it doesn't!
I'm reinstalling it because it had a problem with the SQL Server, so I
thought it would get fixed by reinstalling VS.
Now, if I install VS and press the "Ignore" button, when I try to create a
.NET ASP Web Site, VS crashes...
As dean.carrefour said, does anyone have an idea on how to fix it?
Thank you in advance!
> I installed Visual Studio Pro 2005 from my MSDN CD's. About 3/4 of the way
> through disk two, I got the following error:
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> Any idea what would cause this or how I can fix it? I really need to get
> started working on this machine. Any help will be appreciated.
dean.carrefour - 18 May 2007 14:08 GMT
My problem turned out to be not enough drive space on drive C:. Even though
I was installing to a different drive, I think the installation program
extracts files to the C: drive during installation. I cleaned off 20GB of
drive space on C: and installed again, it worked perfectly.
Uninstall VS, clean off some drive space on C: and try the install again.
Hope this helps.
> Hi!
> I am having the EXACT same problem, even with the exact same files and I
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> Now, if I install VS and press the "Ignore" button, when I try to create a
> .NET ASP Web Site, VS crashes...
Pedro Farinha - 19 May 2007 19:40 GMT
I managed to install VS 2k5 by reinstalling windows (again)... It was a real
pain but then it worked....
> My problem turned out to be not enough drive space on drive C:. Even though
> I was installing to a different drive, I think the installation program
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> > Now, if I install VS and press the "Ignore" button, when I try to create a
> > .NET ASP Web Site, VS crashes...