I have been plagued with problems when running VS.NET 2003 on clean installs of Win XP. I install under the Administrator account but have a normal user account for running VS.NET in (plus the VS Devs and Debuggers groups). VS will run fine but when accessing the MSDN Library, navigating to a docume...more >>

Hi all, I'm searching for a listgroup, newsgroup whatever about setup & deployment projects on dotnet. Does anyone participate of any group like that? []s Renato -- ----------------------------------------------------- Renato Aloi Analista Programador J&W Informática Ltda. ...more >>

MSDN is installed, and help is accessible, but not via F1, etc. I've installed, uninstalled, installed again, and repaired. Nothing has helped. I don't understand why I can't find a solution to or an explanation for what is apparently a common problem. I've seen a few posts here from other...more >>

Is there any problem having VS.NET and VS 6.0 co-exist on the same PC? I work with both VS.NET and VS 6.0 application development and want to install both VS tools on the same machine. Would system get confused with DLL, OCX used by different projects?...more >>

Installing VS .NET EA 2003 on a clean OS install on XP Pro. Install fails what seems to be about 80% through the installation process with the following error: "Could not configure settings for Application Center Test Controller. Access is denied. (0x00000005)" I've tried going through this proces...more >>

I am currently using Visual Studio.NET 2003 and recently was assigned a project to "clean up" that requires that it be built/run under .NET 1.0 (sp2). Since VS.NET 2003 includes a much newer version (I am currently using v1.1.4322). I am wondering if there is a way I can selectively set ...more >>

Due to a misunderstanding, I am returning the Visual Studio .Net 2003 software to the vendor and am subscribing to MSDN instead. This means I will soon need to uninstall the software I have, as I will not have a [license/valid product key] to it; and whenever Microsoft sends me the new stuff, ...more >>

I installed VS.NET yesterday and inadvertantly entered a keycode from a different version. It did accept it but has locked out certain functions. I do have the correct keycode, but cannot determine how to correct it without uninstalling and reinstalling. Any ideas??...more >>

I'm trying to install a visual studio .net trial version from a DVD So I mapped to the server's DVD drive and install from there to my local workstation Everything works fine when I come to the 3 rd step install the MSDN library. It fails like followin there is a pop up titled windows install...more >>

Scenario: When attempting to run an asp.net app without debugging I get the below message: The application consists of a text box and a button only. If I click start I receive the following: "Error while trying to run project: unable to start debugging on the web server. Server side-error...more >>

I have a laptop that had Two Hard Drives in it, C: And E: The E: Drive had VS.net installed on it. It Crashed and i tried half a dozen ways to get VS.Net to reinstalled. During the process, I ripped alot of information out of the registry because i needed VS.Net to install on the C Drive. Now ...more >>

I have read around that you can have both visual studio 6.0 and .net 2003 installed on the same computer. I currently have 6.0 installed and planning to install .net 2003 along with it. However, the question is, for registered files, would .net override all the file types for visual studio? In other...more >>

Now I cna't install VS .NET 2003, I'm wondering if I should have done what I did. Too late, I know! When I try to install VS .NET 2003 (from the MSDN CD 2082) it highlights the prerequisites and disables all theother options. So I click on the prerequisites and it does nothing but tell me "Se...more >>

Hi I ma trying to install Vs.Net and the installation always fails at this particular point: "Setup Runtime Files". This happens when I am trying to runl the pre-req CD to install all the components. If I go to the Control Panel to select to install "bootstrap.msi", it throws me this error: "error...more >>

Hi, I actually got lucky in a thrift store and found Microsoft Visual Studio .net 2002 professional edition, full version. I picked it up because i knew it would be worth something. I want to sell it on ebay or amazon.com, but I don't know how much it is worth. The software is sealed and come...more >>

I have seen many posts of people with the same problem as me (attached below), but I have yet to see any solutions posted. Has anyone figured out how to deploy an Asp.net web site to the webserver in any place other than the default website? I do not want to install it there as our IIS has multi...more >>

Hi there, I got the following stupid problem: Whenever I start a program from VS (professional 2003), no matter if with or w/o debugging, a message box pops up saying "No such interface supported." My diagnosis is that I probably messed up the registry, so that some debugger components ar...more >>

Hello, I have created a setup application in .NET in which I have added a condition while installation for DirectX 9 on the machine. It is successfully checking the condition. Now, I want that if it is not installed then the installation should start the DirectX 9 installation automatically. ...more >>

Am using Visual Studio 2003 and Windows XP Pro. In the 'Walkthroughs' book, on page 22, when making a Data Connection, it states in step 4 to 'Use Windows NT Integrated security' and says in a note below to see your network administrator if you do not have integrated security set up on your syste...more >>

I am brand new to VS Studio (2003 Architect) and when I tried the Web Application walkthru in the rapid evaluation, when I tried to create the project suggested, I got the following error "Visual Studio .Net has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be...more >>

I have recently purchased VS net 2003. As I need to go on the road I installed it on a laptop. Upon my return I uninstalled it from the laptop. I now want to put that copy on my workstation. However, I find that I cannot active the copy I have on my workstation because I had it installed it on m...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to install Visual Studio .NET on a machine without destroying the existing old Visual Studio ? Because I still need visual interdev to work on my old visual basic 6 programs. dave ...more >>

hi! I tried to setup vs.net 2003. but I met error 1937 and setup falied. please give me some advise. ...more >>

I installed VS .Net 2003 to an incorrect path on a server. For security reasons I have to move it. I uninstalled and am trying to reinstall. The path for some of the components appear as they were under the initial install and they are grayed out when triying to change them. Others I am ...more >>

HELLO, I AM HAVING INSTALL PROBLEMS. THE INSTALL ROLLS BACK AT THE VERY END. I AM USING A CLEAN INSTALL OF WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL. I MADE SURE THE SYSTEM HAD ALL THE CRITICAL SERVICE RELEASES INSTALLED USING WINDOWS UPDATE ONLINE. I ONLY TRIED TO INSTALL VB.NET AND C# AND NOTHING ELSE. ...more >>

I have another developer at this site that is trying to install Visual Studio .net 2003 from the MSDN DVD disk 2435.1 from the December shipment. It apparently went through the PreRequisites portion of the install without failure with the user selecting Drive D: as the target directory He then app...more >>

I am trying to Install Visual Studio.net beta 2 on my xp home sp1 machine. I am getting the following error : ERROR: Error 1324.The folder path 'VsdCustomCheõ2Dlg.wid' contains an invalid character. Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks. Cheers - Tom. "Over a long enough t...more >>

I'm stumped on this one. I have Visual Studio Analyzer 6.0 installed as part of Visual Studio 6.0. I'm trying to install .NET and it says I have to remove VSA 6.0 because VSA .NET will not work. There are instructions for removing VSA .NET, there are instructions for repairing VSA 6.0 and VSA .NET b...more >>

Hi there We often receive the following error message at compile time for our setup projects ERROR: Unable to import merge module 'module name This message is repeated for every merge module in our project (mfc42, comctl32, comcat) etc.... the only workaround we've had so far is to repair VS...more >>

All When I start VS.NET 2003 (EA) it starts a session of the Windows Installer that says "Please wait while Windows configures MSDN Library for Visual Studio .NET 2003". The installer runs without asking any questions for about 2 minutes then the VS start page is presented. If I cancel the Windows...more >>

I have VS.Net 1.0.3705 (March 2002) and have tried to install it. After installing the component updates it is fixated on putting VS.Net on to the C: drive but I want to locate it on another drive where I have more disk space. I noticed KB article Q311855 but I don't actually have a former versi...more >>

Hey, there! I've recently got VS.NET 2002 & started installation Nuttin' special happend. havin' installed components' update i clicked <Install VS.NET>, it asked me product key, the next screen specified the components of .NET tobe installed and when I clicked Next>> i saw smth. like: -Verify...more >>

Hello, We are currently in the process of taking development of our main website in-house. We have FTP access to the server hosting the files, which is written in ASP (non Dot NET). I FrontPage 2003, I'm able to pull down the files to a local directory, but does not allow ASP.NET development,...more >>

Last year I installed a copy of VS.NET trial, which ran out some time ago. MSDN Universal is now being purchased, but there may be some delay before this arrives (awaiting the "powers that be" to sign things off). However, I have a second copy of VS.NET 60 day trial. Is it possible to install a ...more >>

I have problems installing the VSNET 2003 on W2K Pro SP4 workstation, with it failing with the Internal Error 2349 when installing it from the CD. Had read earlier posting suggesting that this was a issue with the CD media being prehaps corrupted. But the same is true after having xcopied the cd con...more >>

I'm having problem getting VS .NET 2003 Academic getting installed again. I had it installed initially on this machine without a problem previously, but a very nasty problem with another piece of installed software forced me to do a System Restore. So I'm now in the process of re-installing everythi...more >>