visual studio .net setup: I'm having problems installing VS .Net2003 on my new Win-XP(SP2) noteook. All
other software has installed just fine.

Here's what happens:

1) I first put in CD1 and the install menu had everything ghosted except
Item #. When I selected item #1 it asked for the Prerequisites CD. I placed
it in and when it finally came up it gave me an InstallShield window with
the following items:

Command line parameters:
/L language ID
/S Hide intialization dialog. For silent mode use /S:
/v/qn.
/V parameters to MSIExec.exe
/UA<url to InstMsiA.exe>
/UW<url to InstMsiW.exe>
/UM<url to msi package>

I was provided the following answer to my problem by a kind user of this
newsgroup when I followed up on a similar issue posted earlier. This approach
solved my installation problem.



PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Unable to install the Visual Basic .NET 2003.


SYMPTOMS: After installing prerequisites, unable to uninstall the Visual
Basic.NET.



RESOLUTION: Deleted the content of default key from the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
Paths\setup.exe



For your reference we did the following steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
Paths\setup.exe
3. In the right pane, right-click (Default), and then click Modify.
4. If there is a value in the Value data box, delete the contents, and then
click OK.
5. On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.

Start the Visual Basic .NET installation.






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