Anybody know if the name of media can be determined?
Not knowing the name of the VS 2005 media has given me endless grief and
prevented me from getting it installed. As well as making me do a system
restore after each failed install attempt.

We currently have Office 2000 installed on all our clients.  Can I
install VS 2005 on the same client with Office 2000 still installed.
We are not using Office tools addins.
If I can do this what limitations exist in Office and Visual Studio?

Hello, I'm trying to get VS.NET 2003 up and running on my laptop (I'm in the
middle of studying for the MCSD cert or I'd just do 2005). I cannot find
Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 anywhere on MSDN, nor can I get VS.NET
to work with the version installed on my computer (v5 ...

I have uninstalled vs2005 Beta 2 (using the vs_uninstall tool) and try to
reinstall vs2003 now.
During the installation process I get an error like this:
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Hi, can I run Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 on the sam
computer? Is there a troubleshooting?

I am owning a copy of "Visual Studio 6.0 Professional German". I have the
opportunity to purchase "Visual Studio .NET 2003 Special Edition *English*"
(via a relative).
Can I upgrade or is the language mismatch a problem?

I didn't see any instructions, recommendations or posts about installing the
VS2005 RTM on a machine that has VS2005 RC. If the RC needs to be UnInstalled
first, I assume that there is a specifically ordered list of operations to
complete, however I can find none.

1. If this is a repeat posting, please forgive me. My single continuing
complaing about MS is that they don't have an industrial strength (i.e. as
capable and fast as google) search engine either on the web sites or in the
IDE. I use google so much more than the Help button - MS ...

I have VS2003 Enterprise Architect with latest MSDN library Oct 05. Can I
install VS2005 Pro and it's MSDN library and still have my VS2003 working as
before.  (I need time to transition my projects).
Thanks.

I have been successfully using VS.Net 2003 to write an internet app using
ASP.Net and VB for six months now.  I have noticed that the VB code is
generated in a ASP.net designer session when you add controls to the form.
However when you add data controls to the form it goes in a ...

I am writing a setup using a VS setup project, but I want to eliminate
the destination dir panel and just prereq that the homedir is already
set in a registry key.
Is it possible (without using orca) to cause the targetDir to be the

I receive an error after installing VS 2005 RTM professional when trying to
open a solution that I had converted with VS 2005 CTP.  "The project type is
not supported by this installation".  The error occurs on my unit test
project.  I'm obvisouly missing some necessary component ...

I've used VS2003 on XP SP2.
Yesterday I downloaded VS2005 CD setup disks and today I installed the
studio. The problem is that when I was asked to install documentation I faced
a dialog asking me to Repair/Remove/Reinstall. So I Reinstalled it. At the

I uninstalled VS2005, rebooted machine, deleted files in C:\windows\temp.
When I try to run setup with 'setup.exe /NO_BSLN_CHECK', I get the following error:
Error 1304: Error writing to file CRvsPackageLib.dll. Verify that you have access to that directory.
last couple lines of log ...

I have reloaded my laptop this weekend and installed VS 2005 Team Developer
edition... Everything went okay and I could create Windows and Website
projects...
Somewhere down the line with installing SQL 2005 Developer Edition including