I have been trying to install the recently released Vista SP1 for Visual
Studio 2005 but I have had no success.
Visual Studio 2005 and its SP1 have installed on my Vista x64 system running
on a dual core AMD64 without any problems

I've installed VS 2005 under MS Vista. Once I have done that, exactly
what else do I need to install to get VS 2005 to run 'well' in Vista?
And in what order? I know that I need to install the VS 2005 SP1, but
what else if anything?

For the life of me VS2005 will not install.
The setup log files shows:
[02/26/07,03:42:59] Microsoft Document Explorer 2005: [2] Error code
-2147024703 for this component means "%1 is not a valid Win32 application.

I've written a Windows Service, built for x64 release platform and have a
setup project for the solution. The binary and the setup projects are built
by VS2005.
When I run the setup.exe on a Windows 2003 R2 Ent. Server (x64), it gives

How do I remove files/directories already on the machine that I want
to install a new app on using a Visual Studio setup project? Also, how
do I  unregister a .dll.
I want to remove a folder and all it's files:

I use and need MFC and unicode.
After I changed from shared dll to static library a get a linker error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'uafxcwd.lib'
I searched ...'Microsoft Visual Studio 8', found nothing.

Any help would be appreciated. Trying to install visual studio 2005
pro on vista ultimate fails with: "Required Prerequisites: Missing
Windows XP service pack 2" setup quits.
Thanks

I'm trying to install Visual Studio .NET 2003 in a machine where is already
installed Visual Studio .NET 2005. Every time I get a "another program
requires reboot" message when I try to install the VS2003 prerequisites
althought I have reboot several times. How can I prevent ...

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In a VS setup app for deployment how do set a default value for one of the
variables e.g [TARGETDIR] ?

I have a pretty urgent problem:
I have to deinstall VS 2003. During this process, this error occurs: "could
not find file: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\2e79bf.msi"
The file is really not there and I can't find it anywhere. Unfortunatelly,

I had to uninstall VS 2003 and install it again (same SP). Before
uninstalling, I made a backup. After reinstalling, I compared the backup
against the new installation (just to get a picture If I have
forgotten something; I had to do this with many applications, that's why I

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I've had this (subject) problem with VS2005 since it's been installed last
summer or so.  I got around it by creating the project with VS2003.Net then

I have an application which was developed by using visual studio
2005.  However, my customers can NOT run my application probably
because they do NOT have VS2005 installed.  They do have
Microsoft .NET 2.0 installed.

I have installed VS 2005.
Now I may need to install VS 2003, is there any thing I should worry about
that or need to take care about?

I have VS2005 and VSTO on both my laptop and desktop machines. I downloaded
SP1 from MSDN and saved the setup exe file to a folder. First, I tried to
upgrade to SP1 on my laptop. I ran the program, and it ran for about 10
minutes then quit. It gave no indication whether it ...