visual studio .net setup: I have subscribed to Enterprise version of MSDN on DVD
discs. I intended to install it on Windows XP
Professional computer. I have read the "Getting Started
Guide." In the box with discs, I received about a week
ago, I found a letter that said:

"As a benefit of your MSDN subscription, this shipment
includes the April 2003 MSDN Library."

The disc was gray in color, and on the label it said:

APRIL 2003
msdn subscriptions L:brary

This was the first disc from the top, so I put it into
the first DVD drive (D:). It appeared in "My Computer" as
disc QTR40ENUD1 (D:). It started the setup, as far as I
remember automatically. I answered a couple of prompts.
For example, it promted me to select between three
options. I selected "Typical." Then it promted me whether
I wanted the shortcut on my desktop. I said:

Yes

and it created the icon:

msdn
MSDN Library -
October 2001

When I doubleclick on that label it come with the first
page that reads:

"Welcome to the October 2001 release of the MSDN Library"

What happened to April 2003 library? I read that that
library is available online under:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/

When I enter that address, a completely different online
library is displayed. Unfortunately it is just entitled:

Welcome to the MSDN Library

There is no month. For example, that library contains the
articles like:

"Developing .NET Smart Clients for Microsoft Office XP
Simon Guest and Siew-Moi Khor
Microsoft Corporation

December 2002"

There are no such articles in the library that I
installed automatically.

According to that letter, I seem to have automatically
installed October 2001 Library. The Windows XP
Professional computer is brand new. I never had or
installed any other DVD discs than the ones I just
received.

The DVD discs arrived from:

msdn, Microsoft Developer Network
1640 Berryessa Road
Suite A
San Jose, CA 95133

about a week ago.

How do I get rid of the old October Library and install
the new April 2003 Library. The letter said:

"MSDN Library, April 2003
During setup you may see the message, "Setup has detected
that the MSDN name space is configured for use with
Visual Studio .NET. Would you like to replace it with the
MSDN Library - April 2003?"

As I said, that was the first disc, so nothing else was
yet installed on my computer. I never saw this prompt
above.

I have not yet tried to install any other DVD discs from
that shipment. Are the discs supposed to be installed in
any particular order? If not, I do not understand how you
can rely that, for example, Visual Studio .NET will
always be already installed when that library disc is
run? I tried to install the DVD discs in the sequence in
which they came in the box, from top to the bottom.

Ivan Bach

Hi.

I didn't use the MSDN disks so I can't give you definitive advice, but it
sounds as if perhaps the april one was an update, and you should install the
base MSDN library first and then the update?

Just a suggestion.

Lauchlan M

Hi,

Looks like you got an old version of MSDN. Please contact Microsoft Order
desk at (800) 360-7561 and they will help you with that.


Best regards,
Bradley Jiang


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|I have subscribed to Enterprise version of MSDN on DVD
|discs. I intended to install it on Windows XP
|Professional computer. I have read the "Getting Started
|Guide." In the box with discs, I received about a week
|ago, I found a letter that said:
|
|"As a benefit of your MSDN subscription, this shipment
|includes the April 2003 MSDN Library."
|
|The disc was gray in color, and on the label it said:
|
| APRIL 2003
| msdn subscriptions L:brary
|
|This was the first disc from the top, so I put it into
|the first DVD drive (D:). It appeared in "My Computer" as
|disc QTR40ENUD1 (D:). It started the setup, as far as I
|remember automatically. I answered a couple of prompts.
|For example, it promted me to select between three
|options. I selected "Typical." Then it promted me whether
|I wanted the shortcut on my desktop. I said:
|
| Yes
|
|and it created the icon:
|
| msdn
| MSDN Library -
| October 2001
|
|When I doubleclick on that label it come with the first
|page that reads:
|
|"Welcome to the October 2001 release of the MSDN Library"
|
|What happened to April 2003 library? I read that that
|library is available online under:
|
|http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/
|
|When I enter that address, a completely different online
|library is displayed. Unfortunately it is just entitled:
|
| Welcome to the MSDN Library
|
|There is no month. For example, that library contains the
|articles like:
|
|"Developing .NET Smart Clients for Microsoft Office XP
|Simon Guest and Siew-Moi Khor
|Microsoft Corporation
|
|December 2002"
|
|There are no such articles in the library that I
|installed automatically.
|
|According to that letter, I seem to have automatically
|installed October 2001 Library. The Windows XP
|Professional computer is brand new. I never had or
|installed any other DVD discs than the ones I just
|received.
|
|The DVD discs arrived from:
|
| msdn, Microsoft Developer Network
| 1640 Berryessa Road
| Suite A
| San Jose, CA 95133
|
|about a week ago.
|
|How do I get rid of the old October Library and install
|the new April 2003 Library. The letter said:
|
|"MSDN Library, April 2003
|During setup you may see the message, "Setup has detected
|that the MSDN name space is configured for use with
|Visual Studio .NET. Would you like to replace it with the
|MSDN Library - April 2003?"
|
|As I said, that was the first disc, so nothing else was
|yet installed on my computer. I never saw this prompt
|above.
|
|I have not yet tried to install any other DVD discs from
|that shipment. Are the discs supposed to be installed in
|any particular order? If not, I do not understand how you
|can rely that, for example, Visual Studio .NET will
|always be already installed when that library disc is
|run? I tried to install the DVD discs in the sequence in
|which they came in the box, from top to the bottom.
|
|Ivan Bach
|
|
|
|
|

Hi Ivan,
there was surely a shipment mistake, and newsgroups are not the right place
for asking for a replacement. Please contact Micrsofot Technical Support:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;CNTACTMS.

HTH and bye,
Raffaele Limosani
Microsoft Developer Support
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