Hi all.

Sorry if this is not the proper forum, but I can't seem to access any
of the microsoft.public.vsnet newsgroups.

I have VS.Net installed, but haven't used it in months. Now I want to
use it (specifically VB.Net), and find that I can't. What makes it
worse is that I also seem to be unable to repair, reinstall, or even
remove it. Can anyone help with some info about what's wrong and how
to fix it?

When I open VB.Net it looks fine, but when I try to create a new
project everything is disabled in the dialogue that comes up. The
lists of Project Types and Templates are both empty, and the only
things enabled are the Help and Cancel buttons. (Help doesn't really
work either, but that's another story).

When I fire up the install program from the CD again, and try to
repair the installation, or reinstall or remove, it stops part-way
through with a message about the registry, then backs out any changes.
The error message in the dialogue is also repeated (of course) in the
error log, which is copied below...

[08/04/04,17:06:29] Visual Studio .NET Professional - English: [2]
ERROR: Error 1407.Could not get value names for key
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\2.0\LocalReg\CLSID\{314111e7-a502-11d2-bbca-00c04f8ec294}\InprocServer32.
Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your
support personnel.
[08/04/04,17:06:29] Visual Studio .NET Professional - English: [2]
ACTION FAILURE: Action ended 17:06:29: InstallFinalize. Return value
3. See MSI log for details.
[08/04/04,17:07:27] Visual Studio .NET Professional - English: [2]
ACTION FAILURE: Action ended 17:07:27: INSTALL. Return value 3. See
MSI log for details.
[08/04/04,17:07:35] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install()
failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper()
[08/04/04,17:07:36] setup.exe: [2] Component error string not
specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()

Any help will be appreciated.