visual studio .net setup:
Hello,
My name is Dan I'm a new user of Visual Studio.net, well, I'm
trying to be at the moment. Experience isn't the issue; I used
Visual Basic in my Programming Theory class during my senior year in
high school. So I just purchased Visual Studio.net Academic edition at
a very reasonable discount from my college bookstore yesterday. So I
get home, install the prerequisites, and then insert disk 1 to begin
the actual installation process of the IDE. So, it get's through the
configurations, accepts my product key and copies all the files on disk
one. Once it's finished, it of course prompts me for disk 2. So, I
remove disk 1 and insert 2, and click ok, and it just kept prompting me
the insert the second disk, where it was already in my drive!
Apparently, after doing some research I discovered this is a universal
problem with the Academic Edition where Setup wants Disk 2 of the
standard Professional edition and Professional only. So, I had to exit
setup and roll back the already finished installation after realizing
it just wasn't going to accept my disk. So, after searching though
Microsoft newsgroup posts via Google, someone suggested to consult the
"adminreadme" html document in the setup folder on the first disk,
more specifically the "Example procedure for sharing installation
files from CDs" process which involves copying the entire contents of
both Visual Studio disks to your hard disk in a subfolder of a new
folder, and then tweaking the "setup.ini" file using notepad
([Baseline] section and [Documentation] sections) which prevent Setup
from asking you to swap disks, as your getting all the files from the
hard drive this time. Form what I gather this process is
conventionally used for network administrators to share the Setup files
over a network for multiple users to install the IDE on their machines,
but with the problem in the Academic edition I'm experiencing, this
appeared to be my only option as Setup just would not accept my second
disk.
So I did that and ran Setup right form my C drive, and installation
went without error. Or so I thought... Although Setup didn't catch
this issue, when I go to run the IDE for the first time it tells me
"Please enter a valid product key to use this product - setup has
detected that the product key is missing or invalid. You will find
this 25-character key on your Certificate of Authenticity or the yellow
sticker on the back of the CD case". Well, I double and triple
checked that I entered the exact key on the yellow sticker, and setup
found nothing wrong with it... I just don't understand why I'm hit
with this surprise that my key is invalid... It's the one that came
with the software, and I have no other alternative to enter of course.
I can run the IDE by ignoring the message box (it will close everything
if I close or hit OK) but it does not let me debug, which is of course
a very big deal.
Any help/assistance would be much appreciated. Thank you,
-Dan
