I am attempting to install VisualStudio .Net 2003
Enterprise Developer. Everytime I try the installation
hangs in the same place:
Directory: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

I have created an MSI (Created with VS.Net 2005 Deployment Project included
in my Windows Service Project) that installs a Windows Service, but I currently
have to manually start the service.  I created an exe that calls the Net
Start command and included it with my installation, ...

A member of my team ran recently an ASP.NET 1.1 (c#) web app through the
upgrade process to convert it to an ASP.NET 2 solution.
Most of the team can open the solution in VS.NET 2005 but when I try to
on my PC it errors saying "The Project file 'Raise.csproj' cannot be

I downloaded the ISO image (tried both DVD and CD) of VS 2005 Pro, extracted
with ISOBuster, and when I ran setup, I immediately received an error that
approximately states "Cannot copy DeleteTemp.exe from <path> to your temp
directory". Sure enough, there was no DeleteTemp.exe ...

One hour for SP1 to install...
... and now when I try to launch VS2003, a Windows Installer window appears,
and after a few minutes of intense computation, evrything close.
I cannot use VS2003 anymore.

Is it possible to create a Windows Setup Package that should install in a
Specific Path [ C:\ABC\  Folder]. Not in any where. The installer should not
ask the Path to enter while installation.
If yes, then where i have to mention this one.

We have been using TFS beta 2 till now and would like to migrate to the
latest TFS release. I have seen few posts in this forum saying that no
official migration support is available prior to beta 3.
Please suggest how should we go about upgrading from beta 2. What are

Hi.  I just updated my developer edition of sql server 2005 with sp1.
Now when I run visual studio 2005 standard, I have a package load failure on
the report designer package, the language package, and the microsoft data
transfer services designer.

I'd like to do unattend installation for Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite and
SQL Server Express Edition which is included in the media of Visual Studio.
By default setting, SQL Server Express Edition has an instance name,
SQLEXPRESS.  But I want it installed as the default instance.

All -
I have tried, several time, to install the SP1 for VS 2003 but keep getting
an error message:
   (paraphrasing) "Unable to locate source for installation.  Can not

I get a very frustrating error message during setup of Visual C# 2005
Express Edition. After some steps, I get the message "Visual Studio C#
2005 Express Edition - ENU has encountered a problem and needs to
close" (or something like that). And if I want to send an error report

When adding a new project to my solution the following error is shown, and no
project is created. "The process cannot access the file 'C:\Documents and
Settings\Temp\.....\Properties\Resources.Designer.cs' because it is being
used by another process".

I have installed Visual Studio 2005 and ran the repair function and
when do CTRL + F or click the Find in Files button nothing happens.
This is very annoying.  Is there something that I am missing?

I keep getting these warning in my VS 2005 setup projects.  Most of
these are upgraded from vs.net 2003 where they were working fine.
I suspect it's because in the Detected dependencies it is including
policies for both vc80_mfc and vc80_crt.  My setup project installs

When setting up witch dialogs should be shown as the setup is running I was
wondering if it would be possible to add a dialog containing a dropdownlist,
witch could be manually populated with data.
I need to set a country code from within the setup. The installer installs a