I have a licensing question for you all.  I have a copy of
VS .NET 2003 Pro.  Would it be LEGAL to install it on two
seperate machines (i.e. workstation and laptop) if they
were not ever going to be used at the same time?

How do i uninstall Setup Runtime Files while trying to
install the .Net Prerequesties CD inorder to install
VS .Net 2003. What exactly do i look for on the Add/remove
Programs to do so. thanks

I resently moved to a new machine (running win2k). I
installed VS6 with sp5 and it seemed to work fine. But now
anytime I try to open a workspace or project I get an
MSDEV.EXE divide by zero error. Anyone have any ideas?

If I install Visual Studio but don't select the C++
option, only installing VB instead, then install a service
pack, and then decide to run visual studio setup again and
add C++, is it necessary to install the service pack

When attempting to install visual studio.net 2003 I get
the prerequisites screen.  I printed the instructions and
went to the control panel.  However once there when I hit
the add/remove windows components I get the following

I have a machine running XP Pro with VS .NET 2003 installed on it and it
works great, BUT I have just been given project where I have to use VS 6.0
on. I need to install it on this machine but am hesitant!!! Any problems
with doing this? Any special problems or advise/do not do's ...

Hello friends...whenever we try to add a new web project
in VS.Net we get a nasty error:
Cannot create the offline cache in C:\Documents and
Settings\TEMP\My Documents\Visual Studio

Does it make any difference if the "xp DirectX update # 819696" patch is
installed before or after the install of visual studio .net 2003?

I have a problem with installing .Net 2003 on my Windows XP Profesional. I
installed the latest windows updates including sp1.
The installation of the Prerequisites seems to go fine.
At the end of the setup (CD2) the setup gives the following error:

As I tried to install the DVD disc 2087, May 2003, Part
No. X09-51558, "Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise
Development," the Setup program on that disc displayed
the message:

i've downloaded the ISOs and burned the three CDs for the
july 2003 msdn library. when i try to install it (full
install), it always fails at the end of the second CD,
telling me it cannot find the following file:

Please enter a valid product key to use this product
setup has detected that the product key is missing or
invalid. You will find this 25-character key on your
Certificate of Authenticity or the yellow sticker on the

Dear M$,
I just installed VS.NET 2003 (after second attempt) and decided that I would
need help files as well.
So I took MSDN disks - April 2003 and guess what? CD2 and CD3 have the same

I installed VS.NET 2003 . After that when I'm trying to unistall old setup
of VS.NET 2002, it is failing.
First time it gave the error that it can't find vs_setup.msi. But that file
comes only in installation CD and doesn't come in installed files. Running

I have installed both IIS5 and VS.net on my local XP-Pro.
This seems to work OK, although I have not used it alot, I
can create projects and aspx pages, etc. However, I want
to use a different XP-Pro machine to run IIS5 and SQL