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all groups > visual studio .net setup > august 2006

Install and Uninstall Visual Studio 2005
Posted by Nattydreadlock at 8/30/2006 7:13:49 PM
Hello, I'm having some problems installing Visual Studio 2005. I'll briefly explain what's the history of the problem here. First I installed VS 2005 beta 2. I uninstalled it later via the Windows Uninstall Tool you can download. Then I installed Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition ENU. This ...more >>


Find and Find In Files does nothing!
Posted by mscirri NO[at]SPAM osmose.com at 8/30/2006 5:11:38 AM
I have installed Visual Studio 2005 and ran the repair function and when do CTRL + F or click the Find in Files button nothing happens. This is very annoying. Is there something that I am missing? ...more >>

Error 1325 'MyProject' is not a valid short file name
Posted by Steve Smith at 8/29/2006 2:32:02 PM
I have an installer project that correctly assembles the .msi, but when I try to install, it returns an error that my project is not a valid short file name. I ran Msiexec to get the verbose log, but it wasn't much more informative: The installer has encountered an unexpected error install...more >>

Installer Reinstalls Configuration File
Posted by daveboyd at 8/22/2006 5:58:03 PM
In vs 2003 the installer subproject builds an MSI file that includes several configuration files. These files have a setting that causes the installer to rebuild the files from the original distribution whenever the user changes them. What setting is required to get the installer to ignore c...more >>

Could not establish a connection to the database
Posted by bruno at 8/22/2006 11:24:02 AM
I've Visual Studio 8 and SQL Server 2005 installed on my computer. I'm quite new on Visual Studio and getting experienced on ASP.NET programming. I'm finding problems in experimenting Authentication and Roles solutions because ASP.NET configuration tool gives me this error message: "Could no...more >>

Installing VS2005 and SQL Server Express as the default instance
Posted by KASHIWAGI, Hide at 8/22/2006 1:24:02 AM
Hello all, I'd like to do unattend installation for Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite and SQL Server Express Edition which is included in the media of Visual Studio. By default setting, SQL Server Express Edition has an instance name, SQLEXPRESS. But I want it installed as the default instance....more >>

Bookmarks in VS2005
Posted by Andrew Chalk at 8/21/2006 11:06:34 PM
How do bookmarks work in VS2005? Specifically, in VS2003 Ctrl-K-N took the insertion point to the next bookmark in the current file. In VS2005 it seems to take the insertion point to the next bookmark in the order they were inserted in the development session, even if this was in a different f...more >>

MDAC 2.8 SP1 Error: Access is denied Installing Visual Studio 2005
Posted by Stefan at 8/21/2006 7:50:02 PM
I suspect that I have several versions of MDAC (2.5+) on a Windows 2000 computer and this is causing VS 2005 Pro installer to fail. I have been trying to install VS 2005 Pro but am getting the following error: [08/19/06,16:32:35] Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8 SP1: [2] Error code -21...more >>



"Primary Output" consists of multiple files - how to set shortcut?
Posted by Aaron Isotton at 8/18/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi, I have almost no experience with Windows Installer, so this is probably an easy question. I'm deploying a VSTO application. Its primary output consists of an Excel spreadsheet and a DLL. I created an Installer using Visual Studio ..NET 2005, and I want to create a shortcut to the Exc...more >>

unable to go to definition nor reference
Posted by androidsun NO[at]SPAM yahoo.com at 8/17/2006 9:51:37 AM
I am using VS2003 as my primary deveopment environment. I also installed VS2005 Professional Edition on the same machine. I am having trobule to right click the name in the source to go to its definition. It just says "Cannot navigate to 'xxx('" and "The symbol 'xxx' is not referenced." I run...more >>

Setup project customization
Posted by AlanC at 8/16/2006 9:48:01 AM
I'm developing a Setup project in VS.net 2003 to install a simple application. On the GUI form where the user can select the installation location, it has radio buttons that allow the user to choose to install for everyone or just for the current user. I can see no way to remove this option ...more >>

Team System Setup Failing (at or near end)
Posted by Jim Butler at 8/14/2006 2:25:01 PM
I have been wrestling with the installation for a few days now, i have got to this point. Unfortunately, the error messages are leaving much to be desired. Anyone with any ideas, From the MSI log 08/14/06 16:40:33 DDSet_Status: Commandline: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 ...more >>

Unable to create new project in VS2005
Posted by Lucky Luke at 8/10/2006 12:49:01 PM
When adding a new project to my solution the following error is shown, and no project is created. "The process cannot access the file 'C:\Documents and Settings\Temp\.....\Properties\Resources.Designer.cs' because it is being used by another process". This error occures since I'm using my n...more >>

How to register COM component during installation
Posted by Mokles at 8/9/2006 8:46:01 PM
I would like to register a COM component on the client machine during the installation of a .Net program. Can I do it through the .Net setup project? Can someone lead to the right direction? Thanks, Chanchal ...more >>

installer warning: "Two or more objects have the same target location"
Posted by JahMic at 8/7/2006 12:21:36 AM
I keep getting these warning in my VS 2005 setup projects. Most of these are upgraded from vs.net 2003 where they were working fine. I suspect it's because in the Detected dependencies it is including policies for both vc80_mfc and vc80_crt. My setup project installs both mfc and non-mfc app...more >>

IIS problems after installing Visual Studio .NET 2003 Pro
Posted by Rick at 8/3/2006 3:02:02 PM
I've installed Visual Studio .NET 2003 on a new computer, but must have missed something, or done something out of order. When I tried to open an existing asp.net application, I first got the message that IIS wasn't configured - the help told me to run aspnet_regiis.exe -i which I did....more >>

Setup project: let user choose components
Posted by geoffhanna at 8/1/2006 10:40:02 AM
My project features a data-gathering service that needs to only exist on one workstation, and a reporting interface that exists on all user workstations. How do I make my setup project query the user as to which component(s) are needed and then install only those components?...more >>

Unable to save to a web server with Visual Studio .NET 2005
Posted by swabnitz at 8/1/2006 6:02:02 AM
I am encountering an issue with the Visual Studio 2005 IDE and am unable to figure out how to resolve it. Basically, when I use VS 2005 to save a file on one particular web server I receive the following message: "The Operation Could Not Be Completed. The Parameter Is Incorrect.". The stran...more >>


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