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Richard - 10 Sep 2007 12:24 GMT

I hope someone can help. I have downloaded both Standard Edition and
Professional Edition of Visual Studio 2005 from MSDN, and burned them onto
DVD's.

When I try to install either edition onto my laptop, after a while into the
installation a popup message appears that says "Insert Visual Studio 2005
DVD". There was only the one DVD iso file to download for both editions.
I'm using previously unused DVD's, if this happened with one edition I could
understand that this may be due to corrupt media.

Is there really another DVD that I need?

Richard

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Terri LS - 10 Sep 2007 13:42 GMT

Richard,

I am having the exact same problem this morning on a disc (Visual Studio
2005) that I got with Expression Studio (bought this, of course). I have WIN
XP. Something else is going on...

Terri

> I hope someone can help. I have downloaded both Standard Edition and
> Professional Edition of Visual Studio 2005 from MSDN, and burned them onto
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> Richard

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Richard - 10 Sep 2007 14:28 GMT

Hello Terri

At least I'm not the only one! I have managed to get Visual Studio .NET
2003 installed on my laptop ok, again downloaded from MSDN. It appears to
run ok when running on Vista, although according to Microsoft they won't
support this with Vista. It will have to do for now.

Richard

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Julian - 10 Sep 2007 20:32 GMT

>Richard,
>
>I am having the exact same problem this morning on a disc (Visual Studio
>2005) that I got with Expression Studio (bought this, of course). I have WIN
>XP. Something else is going on...

From http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/faq.aspx?key=studio:

" Q. What should I do if the Visual Studio disk that came with
Expression Studio does not install properly?
A. A problematic version of the Visual Studio installation disc was
accidentally distributed with some English-language versions of
Expression Studio. The faulty disc's part number is X13-59223. We
apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you. Please
contact your local customer service representative so we can mail you
a replacement disc, free of charge. Or, for a more immediate solution,
a workaround is described in this knowledge base article.
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940018)"

Hope that helps.

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deebs - 13 Sep 2007 00:11 GMT

Hmmm ...

I must admit I was not too concerned with the difficulties of VS2005
Standard in Expression Studio as VS2008 and Express variants are so
close to release anyway.

But I am in the process of following the workaround and wonder if at
step #6 there should be a
cd Sourcedrive

first?

That way the xcpy statement seems to workfine provided an appropriate
container driveletter is included in the command line.

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deebs - 13 Sep 2007 01:23 GMT

On XP SP2 it worked well - or so it seems, the install completed but
with the following observations:

At Step #5
cd X:

(where X is the driveletter of the source disk)

At Step #6
change
xcopy *.* DriveLetter:\VS2005STD\ /h /v /s

to xcopy *.* DestinationDriveLetter:\VS2005STD\ /h /v /s

At Step #8
look for setup.exe in the vs folder (there is another one in the msdn
folder)

So, if the source disk is in drive G: and the destination folder is on
drive C:

#5 becomes
cd G:

#6 becomes
xcopy *.* C:\VS2005STD\ /h /v /s

Now then, will VS2005STD provide a conduit upgrade to VS2008 :) ?

Disclaimer: the above worked for me and it is no reassurance that it
will work for everyone.

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Dotcom - 29 Oct 2007 13:51 GMT

I have exactly the same problem, attempting to install VS .NET 2005
Professional on Vista Ultimate from MSDN disk 3070.1 (Part no. X13-63251).
This I believe is the latest distribution of VS2005 from MSDN, so I assume no
fix has yet been released.

I adapted the workaround instructions (taking into account deebs' comments)
for the VS Pro disk. It bypassed the original problem. However, the setup
program then proceeded to look for the content of disk 2 in the equivalent
place on disk 1. I had to merge the contents of disk 2 to disk1. Then at the
very end of the installation, setup was looking for file "vs_emulator.exe". I
copied this here and there, and pointed setup to it (it allowed this in this
case), but no matter what I did, I couldn't complete the installation.

I have wasted a lot of time on this. I would have hoped that release disks
were tested better than this. Nice one Microsoft.

--
Paul Taylor
Dotcom Software Solutions
www.dotcomsoftwaresolutions.co.uk

> I hope someone can help. I have downloaded both Standard Edition and
> Professional Edition of Visual Studio 2005 from MSDN, and burned them onto
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> Richard

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