Well, shoot. I have a machine that had the beta installed on it. I went
through both a manual and the automatic tool uninstaller for this, but I
can't get VS2005 to install. Even though I've used both msiinv.exe and XP's
msicuu.exe to uninstall anything .NET 2x-related, Setup ...

Is it possible to write scripts in the setup project created through Visual
studio .net 2005 same as writing scripts for Installshield ?

I just did a fresh install of the Feb 2006 Vista CTP (5308), and am trying to
install VS2005 Team Developer Edition from an MSDN DVD.
I can get to the first screen of the installer (where I'm asked to choose if
I want to install Visual Studio 2005, install the MSDN documentation, ...

I'm trying to install the samples that ship with Visual Studio 2005.
You access the sample files via:
Start>Programs>Microsoft .Net Framework SDK v2.0>Quickstart Tutorials
However the install Wizard continually fails during the install with the

A strange thing; don't know what I did / inadvertently turned off / whatever...
I have VS2005 Pro and SQL Server 2005 (Developer). Both are independently
working well. In VS2005, when I expand the Servers node in Server Explorer, I
see all the various services but there are no SQL ...

I had .NET 2003 installed along with MSDN (integrated).  I have since
installed VS 2005.  I am working with Workflows (Vista stuff) so I grabbed
the April 2006 release of MSDN and ran through the install.  It did not give
me an option to integrate with 2005 and it did not ...

I have successfully installed vs2005 on two machines -- when setting up
a third however I get an error installing the document explorer here is
the log file ~ the lines that fail.  I tried repairing the framework
install and reinstalling the msi hotfix, no luck.

Situation:
Installing MS Visual Studio 2005 Prof on Laptop running Win 2000 SP4.
Running off the company's Domain
Tried to install Full features and the following was displayed:

i m trying to install VS 2005 standard edition from CD. its the same CD
that Microsoft gave for free.
the problem is that the CD doesnt run even if i run "autorun.exe"
manually. the CD is fine.

I have PSDK April 2005 (Windows Server 2003 SP1) installed and
also:
  Visual Studio 2005
  Visual Studio 6.0  (+sp6)

Can anybody help with this problem?
After ~ two years of using Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect 2003 with
no problems, I suddenly started getting the error message "MS development
environment has not been installed for the current user...".  I have VS2005

I have a 64-bit project targeted to x64. I created a setup project for it
using VS05. The problem is I cannot set the target platform to x64 for the
setup project. It is grayed out and hence it will not build.
Has anyone else seen this and do they have an idea of what could be ...

While waiting for my company to get my real copy of VS2005 Team Suite, I
installed the 180 day trial version.  Everything went without a hitch.  
However, when I tried opening a project that I had created with a beta
version, it said that it was missing the source control plug-in. ...

I'd tried to install Visual Studio .NET 2005 Professional Edition on a
Windows 2000 domain PC (Windows XP with SP2 + latest patches), and
everything was fine except the last step (i.e. installing SQL Express). I
got the error message "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86: ...

I am trying to install VSTO 2005 on a computer that I have successfully
installed VS Pro 2005 on. When I run the setup this is the error log:
[02/06/06,14:13:18] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Runtime:
[2] Error code 4113 for this component means "Setup has detected ...