I have been trying to run the setup for Visual Studio .NET and it is giving
me the error that I dont have the correct prerequisites where can i get these
prerequisites and what should i do.

I try to install Visual Studio .NET 2003, and at the prereq screen I
can't get passed the MDAC 2.7 SP1 installation.  It tells me the
installation was unsuccessful.  However, when I check which version of
MDAC I have installed on my computer, the checker tool tells me I have

I went to install Visual Studio and then a window comes up that says that
"Setup has detected that some of the system components that are installed on
your computer do not match the versions required for Visual Studio .NET. You
must install a different version of these components ...

iam trying to install  VISUAL STDIO 6.0 in windows xp.it is giving error
report like this
 couldn't create  C:\...\PROGRAMME FILES\VISUAL STDIO\COMMON\...\REPOSITORY
directory?

When I try to compile a project located on another machine in VC++ v7.1 it
compiles perfectly when the compiling machine is running Windows Server
2003. However, if the compiling machine is running XP Home I get the errors
shown below. Any idea what the problem is:

I want to write an application that uses a MS Access database. However when I
go to the Data Link Properties dialog box and click on the 'Provider' tab, I
do not see a provider for Microsoft Access.
How do I get a provider in this list so I can connect to Access DB's?

I'd like to install Visual Studio .NET 2003 on Windows XP Professional x64
Edition (beta, v.1218).  It fails when installing the .NET framework 1.1.
Attempting to install .NET 1.1 using the stand-alone dotnetfx.exe also
fails.  The hardware is:

Is there any way to change the target of ProjectAssemblies in VS.NET?
By default it's pointing to "<User>\Application
Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\7.1\ProjectAssemblies" what causes exceeding
profile storage space.

My development team are moving our development projects to a new server,
from Windows NT4 & Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 Server. We have a number of
VS6 and VS.NET 2002 web projects that we need to support on the new server,
as well as developing new VS.NET 2003 web projects.

It has been a while since I have installed this but I am trying to install
VS.Net 2003 Upgrade and I get to where it says it can't find Visual Studio
2002 on my machine and insert Disk 1 for VS 2002 in the cd drive. I don't
have VS 2002 but it should recognize both VB 6 or ...

I downloaded Visual Foxpro 8.0 and extracted it.
I burned the install files to a CD and when running setup it gets to a point
and keeps asking for a the CD.
I presume the volume name needs to be a certain name, does anybody know what

I am trying to install/repair  Visual Studio 2005 Beta - English. It fails
in installing the dotnet framework as follows. Any ideas?
Neil
*VS error log :

I have multiple COM dll projects and a setup project in one solution. The
setup project is referencing the outputs of the other projects and it is
configured to register the them using the 'vsdrpCOM' option.
Both build and installation on a clear machine run without errors, but ...

I did not have C# installed with the rest of VS. Tonite I wanted to install
it. I got an error, can't find file: 153151.msi .
So I tried the repair option, got the same error, tried uninstalling, got
the same error, reinstalled the prerequisites, got the same error after doing

I'm trying to install a Trial VS Professional 2003 Version on a computer with all current fixes installed.
Setup routine runs fine- all Antivirus programmes were disabled.
The first (and every subsequent) start of VS brings up an additional window and a dialog on top of it. The ...