I recently installed the Visual Studio 2005 CTP Beta on my
machine.  That went fine, but when I uninstalled it (as my
team later told me we were going to be working with VS2005
Beta 1), it didn't uninstall version 2.0.41115 of the

Hi, I have Windows XP sp 2 on my system, and I am trying to install VS6.0
onto it.  However, I can't get any further than selecting the components,
because it then gives me the following:
"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT.  The system is not suitable for running

I got the following stupid problem:
 Whenever I start a program from VS (professional 2003), no matter if
with or w/o debugging, a message box pops up saying "No such interface
supported." My diagnosis is that I probably messed up the registry, so

Hello,
I'm attempting to reinstall Studio Net 2003 Professional on XP Pro with SQL
2000 Developer on the machine.  Everytime I start it it brings up the
pre-requisites as being incomplete and launching into an installation of

Hey, well I just bought a copy of Visual Studio 6, but when I go to run it I
get one of those "Microsoft Error Reports". I've tried evrythign Icould think
of and nothing seemed to work out, can any one help me out?

If I install VS .Net 2003 French, then MSDN libray Oct 2004 or Jan 2005
(checking the box "Integrate with Visual Studio"), even on a fresh installed
computer, the help is empty.
Launching the help neither from Visual Studio not from the start menu

I have a vb.net project with a install project.
I added the bootstrapper to make sure .net 1.1 was installed.
When I run the install using setup.exe I get the GUI and it works fine.
I install updates with a silent install using msiexec:

Finally I managed to install Visual Studio 6.0 on XP with SP2. I read
in one of the articals that setting the Setup.exe to run in Windows 98
compatibality mode works; I tried it and it did work, except the
following DLLs did not register:

I'm running/trying to run VS.NET 2003 as a limited user on an XPPRO fresh,
clean, and updated install. When I open the MSDN library and go to a topic,
via VS.NET help or the library viewer, the VS.NET installer opens, pokes
around, and eventually putters out with some errors. If I ...

I recently downloaded VC++ 2005 Express Beta and installed it.  It
doesn't have MFC, so....
I then tried to run my VS.Net Beta 2, version 7.0, and I found there
were some problems with it.   I decided to try reinstalling it.   In

I have attempted to repair and re-install VB.Net so many times and variations
now it isn't funny.  I had a working installation at one time - and to this
day do not know why things chnaged.  I have virus scanned, and adware scanned
and nothing appears unusual.  One day, however, ...

What is the differences between .NET Framework 1.1 and .NET Framework SDK ?
Do I need both of them ?

I think I deleted "device controls" on toolbox of visual studio 2003 by
accident, now I need it, how I can add it back? I try to reinstall it VS.net,
but no help. any comments will be appreciated.

Does anyone know if you can install both VS.NET 2003 and 2005 side by side on
the same machine?
regards,
Bill

I am trying to install VS 6.0 on a Win2K machine with the latest updates.  
Setup hangs at the point where it says ""setup is searching for installed
components".  I am forced to CTRL-ALT-DEL to shut down setup.  I have removed
everything VS, VS.NET, and MSDN related from the ...