I've been trying to install Visual Studio 2005 trial on my PC and it blows
up when trying to install MDAC 2.81 with an Access Denied message.  I've
searched using Google and Microsoft Knowledge Base and I haven't found
anything that helps me resolve the issue.

I'm trying to install VS .NET 2005 from the MSDN disk to a machine running
Vista. During installation, I get an Insert Disk dialog that states: "Setup
is looking for file dexplore.exe. Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Professional Edition - ENU disk 1 now."

I have been developing programs with VS6 for a while on this XP machine
(latest SP installed for VS6 as well).  However, I would like to do
some .NET programming and install Visual Studio 2005.
What I'm afraid of is installing VS2005 only to find my VS6 to no

Why do we need to use "SMSWrapper setup\setup.exe ..." to install VS2005 with
SMS?
Could we use "setup/setup.exe ..." directly ?
especialy if SMSWrapper always return the exitcode 1603.

is it possible to use vs setup project to make an installer to install an MS
Access Runtime MDE application?
The requirements, beyond the usual file copies, shortcuts, add/remove
programs settings, are:

I've followed the directions in the MSDN help on how to change the background
color of the help pages, but it doesn't work.  I can change the font color,
ignore (or not) the page's font size or font, but I cannot change the
background color.  It appears to be a bug.

I know that VS 2005 Installs something called "SQL Server Express" as part of
its installation. I will be installing "SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition" on
the same machine for development purposes.
- If I'm going to do that anyway, do I need the "SQL Express Edition" that

I had an evaluation copy of Visual Studio 2005 on my PC.
After it had expired, I unintsalled it - (using add-remove).
I then installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Developers -
ENU

I've Visual Studio 8 and SQL Server 2005 installed on my computer. I'm quite
new on Visual Studio and getting experienced on ASP.NET programming.
I'm finding problems in experimenting Authentication and Roles solutions
because ASP.NET configuration tool gives me this error message ...

I have a windowx xp SP2 box with VS 2003 and recently installed VSTO.
When I run an Excel(or anything else from office) application from my
VS, it opens a new document and then I get the warning "The common
language runtime could not be loaded by ....". MSDN says that this

After installing Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1 on two machines
(both Windows XP Pro), Windows Explorer showed text files (.txt extension)
as file type 'SQL Trigger Script file' and they open with VS .NET 2003.
A small annoyance that was easy to fix by right-clicking on a  ...

after installing Visual Studio 2005 on my machine (W2k3 SP1) and creating a test web project I finally can't get the debugger to run!
This is the error message (box) I get (translated from German):
Debugging can not be started on the web server. Login failed: unknown user or wrong ...

Windows XP Pro SP2.
After installing Visual Studio .NET 2003 Service Pack 1, my .vbs file
association has changed.  Double-clicking a .vbs VBScript file now opens the
file in Microsoft Development Environment (the VS editor).

I am using Visual studio 2003 Enterprise. I notice that the Server explorer
has Crystal Services. If you expand this, it has a node for Crystal
Enterprises & Server files. I haven't installed Crystal reports on my system
but would like to use it.

Why do we need to use "SMSWrapper setup\setup.exe ..." to install VS2005 with
SMS?
Could we use "setup/setup.exe ..." directly ?
especialy if SMSWrapper always return the exitcode 1603.