Hello,
Background: I was an Access developer from '92-'01, but have been out of
the loop for a while, AND have virtually no experience with VS and VS.NET. I
signed up recently for MS's ISV program, so I have access to the majority of
their software.

I have been trying for 2 days to install VS 2003 .NET Enterprise Architect
on an XP Pro laptop (Dell Latitude C610 with 10gigs of free drive, 1 gig
memory, 1gig cpu.). I am consistently prompted for the prerequisites disk
(do not want to install IIS or Front Page extensions, because I will be
building an application to a server). When I install the prerequisites disk
and click "skip" it brings up a ***SPANISH*** installation dialog for my
modem driver (I don't use my modem). If I continue the installation the
driver is installed and then nothing.... If I cancel the installation the
driver is not installed and then nothing.....
(This has happened using the MSDN CDs, downloaded MSDN file, and downloaded
MSDN ISO files burned to CD).

I installed the same ISO CDs to a test server I set up with Win2K3 Server
Enterprise and everything went fine.

I am posting this now incase someone has an idea what is going wrong and can
get back to me. In the meantime I am going to blow out this XP installation,
restore a Ghost image of Win2K Pro and see if VS.NET 2003 Enterprise will
install to that.

Also.... I don't really need the Enterprise version, but my experience with
MS products has always been to install the most complete version so as not to
have to install extra components later. If you think VS.NET 2003 Developer
or other edition might install better I am open to that (and to your reasons
for thinking so).

Thank you in advance.

kvr901

Not to confuse my main question about installing on my laptop, but.....

As I wrote the installation went fine on Win 2k3 Server. However, the CD
key was inserted and grayed out... and the CD key was different than the CD
key I got from the MSDN download site page.

Why would the key be different?
Why would it be filled in and grayed out?

Thanks

Problem resolved.

The registry entry for apppath\setup had been modified at some time with the
path to the modem driver. Deleting the path solved the problem. VS.NET
installed fine.

Running the modem driver installation several times again did NOT affect the
registry entry, so I have no idea why/when/how the registry entry had been
changed.

What a nightmare.