Hi, I am having major problems with Beta 2.

My Win XP2 system has VS 6.0 and previously had VS 2005 Beta 1. I
uninstalled the Beta 1 in the recommended order, then I installed Beta2 (with
the default options) from a DVD created from the MSDN iso image download.

With an open .NET C++ project, when I select menu item Project|Properties...
I get the following message:

"Failed to create .NET Frameworks PropertyGrid component. Please verify
that the Common Language Runtime and .NET Frameworks are properly installed."

A second problem occurs with the menu sequence Help->How Do I->How Do I the
message in this case is:

"Package 'Visual Studio Comon IDE Package' failed to load."

I was unable to "repair" the installation because this installer option
insists on asking for "Disc 1" of a CD and I only have a DVD.

***Please, what can I do? Evidently many people are having trouble
installing Beta 2, judging from this newsgroup: one wonders if this is
billion-dollar vaporware. Please offer suggestions, recovery strategies or
other information. My only choice at the moment is to go back to VS 2003
with the old Managed C++ paradigm.

Here are the unique lines in dd_vsinstall80.txt with the word "failed" in
them:

[03/03/05,13:53:34] Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta:
ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in
CGenericComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[03/03/05,14:03:30] vs70uimgr: Failed to find ISmallProgress interface on
page. Not treating as error.
[03/03/05,14:03:32] Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 2.0
Beta: ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in
CGenericComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[03/03/05,14:16:57] Microsoft Device Emulator version 1.0:
ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in
CGenericComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[03/03/05,14:17:42] Setup.exe: FinalizeLogsLocation(), CopyFile for
setup.log failed
[07/11/05,16:49:53] VS70pgui: ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
failed to find global prop in CMaintenancePage::GetGlobalProperty()
[07/12/05,10:31:24] MSXML 6.0 Parser:
ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in
CGenericComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[07/12/05,10:31:30] MSXML 6.0 Parser: Error code 0 for this component means
"The operation completed successfully.
[07/12/05,10:37:15] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Beta
2-English: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ERROR:Error 1331.Failed to correctly copy
vcredist_IA64.exe file: CRC error.
[07/12/05,10:37:15] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Beta
2-English: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ERROR:Error 1331.Failed to correctly copy
vcredist_x64.exe file: CRC error.
[07/12/05,10:46:20] .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3:
ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in
CGenericComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[07/12/05,10:47:26] SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition:
ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in
CGenericComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[07/12/05,10:47:43] Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition April CTP:
ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in
CGenericComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()
[07/12/05,10:51:59] Microsoft Device Emulator version 1.0 Beta 2:
ISetupManager::GetGlobalCustomProperty() failed to find global prop in
CGenericComponent::GetGlobalCustomProperty()


Thanks in advance for your expertise.

Hi GeoBai - try this.

I had exactly the same problems. Fortunately the solution in my case was
quite simple. Try running the beta 1 cleanup tool,
vs2005_beta_cleanup_tool.exe - as described here:

blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/04/16
lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/vsbeta2installerissues

This tool removed conflicts with my installed beta 2 version, and so far,
all appears well again. Let us know if this does not fix the problem.


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