May 2006 MSDN Library Update will not install

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Peter R. Fletcher - 02 May 2006 09:50 GMT

I am a Professional MSDN Subscriber, and have the full Release version of
Visual Studio, with the original integrated Help Library, installed on my
system, which has lots of memory, power, spare disk space, etc.
I just received my May MSDN package, including the May Library update. The
DVD runs, recognises that a previous version of the Library is installed, and
offers to update it. After presenting the usual Licence dialog, which I
accept, and a few other preliminaries, it almost immediately prompts for the
"Visual Studio 2005 DVD". However, it does not recognise my MSDN Visual
Studio (or, indeed, the reinserted new Library CD) as being what it wants,
and just keeps prompting. It may conceivably be relevant that I actually
installed VS Pro and the original Library from the downloadable disk images
that were available before the physical DVDs were distributed, but I really
don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall VS Pro, just to do a Library
update. Has anyone got any other suggestions?

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Admiral Q - 03 May 2006 01:06 GMT

>I am a Professional MSDN Subscriber, and have the full Release version of
> Visual Studio, with the original integrated Help Library, installed on my
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> don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall VS Pro, just to do a Library
> update. Has anyone got any other suggestions?

Supposedly all the new MSDN releases are for VS 2k5 only, they will no long
update the VS 2k3 Libraries - I think the last one of those was Jan 06 - not
sure though. I didn't see where if you were updating 2k3 or 2k5, but I
thought I'd add this tidbit just in case <grin>!

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Peter R. Fletcher - 03 May 2006 08:16 GMT

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> Supposedly all the new MSDN releases are for VS 2k5 only, they will no long
> update the VS 2k3 Libraries - I think the last one of those was Jan 06 - not
> sure though. I didn't see where if you were updating 2k3 or 2k5, but I
> thought I'd add this tidbit just in case <grin>!

I was aware of that, and it was the MSDN Visual Studio _2k5_ DVD that I put
in when the Library install asked for it

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Andrew - 04 May 2006 00:29 GMT

> I am a Professional MSDN Subscriber, and have the full Release version of
> Visual Studio, with the original integrated Help Library, installed on my
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> don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall VS Pro, just to do a Library
> update. Has anyone got any other suggestions?

Have you tried mounting your Visual Studio 2005 DVD image that you
downloaded? That's what it sounds like it's asking for. Sorry if you meant
that's what you did.. It doesn't seem clear.

I've always installed from the downloadable images.. and whenever it asks
for one I just mount it up (or sometimes if it's mounted already it might
not notice it, so you point it at it)

- Andrew

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Peter R. Fletcher - 04 May 2006 07:27 GMT

No. I must say that I didn't do that, nor, as a matter of fact, am I sure
that I still have the "original" downloaded DVD image. I think that I
discarded it when I got the real distribution DVD. It did not occur to me
that I would need the original downloaded image (rather than the dist. DVD)
for anything, and, in particular, prior to VS 2005, I have never seen a
_library_ update ask for the Studio DVD before. I will search around to see
if I have the "original" DVD. If not, I guess I will have to reinstall VS
2005 from the distribution DVD. Grrrr!!

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> > I am a Professional MSDN Subscriber, and have the full Release version of
> > Visual Studio, with the original integrated Help Library, installed on my
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> - Andrew

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"WenJun Zhang[msft]" - 08 May 2006 11:10 GMT

Hi Peter,

If you still meet any problem on upgrading after reinstalling VS2005,
please update here to let us know. Thanks.

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WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Peter R. Fletcher - 08 May 2006 16:14 GMT

I was able to locate the "original" DVD which I burned with the downloaded
image and inserted it when prompted by the library install. The bad news is
that it was also not recognised/accepted - the install continues to prompt
for the "Visual Studio 2005 DVD". Under the circumstances, I am somewhat
disinclined to obliterate my carefully configured Visual Studio installation
and start again from scratch unless there is some assurance that this will,
in fact, solve the problem.

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Peter R. Fletcher - 08 May 2006 17:22 GMT

There is a thread about this (I am not the only sufferer) in the "unmanaged"
Visual Studio-> Developer Documentation and Help System forum, and hsaelens
found a workaround, which is to copy the entire DVD to a hard disk directory
and install from there. That worked for me, too, but God help those who
aren't good at navigating Newsgroups.

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"WenJun Zhang[msft]" - 10 May 2006 09:35 GMT

Peter,

Glad to see you've resolved the problem.

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