On Installing Visual Studio 2005 Professional

ross m. greenberg

Unfortunately, the On Line Concierge for MSDN was not able to solve my "ENU" problem -- but MSDN Tech Support was able to!

Basically this has been a problem that has since been resolved: the Visual Studio 2005 professional installation disk/DVD has two CD images on it, discs one and two. To solve the "ENU problem", copy it disc two from the DVD onto your desktop. Then open disc one off the DVD and control-a/select all and copy, then paste the buffer contents into the desktop copy on disk two. Then look for the Visual Studio setup program icon, right click on it and run as administrator. Visual Studio will now properly install. Now you must run SP1 of Visual Studio, found on MSDN DVD 4084.1: this will take a while. You're not done yet!

Now, run Windows Update, which will grab the Vista update for Visual Studio. Finally, Visual Studio will install, and run properly on Vista.

What a royal pain in the ass!

Ross

ross m. greenberg

>
> Sorry it was such a PITA for you, but Thank You very much for posting the
> information.
>
> This will help others.



Precisely why I was posting!

Now I'm trying to install the "pubs" and the "Northwind" databases. I downloaded them successfully however on trying to install them are supposed to use the command window of Visual Studio, however, I cannot locate it. Sigh.

It's supposed to be under the "Tools" menu of Visual Studio, but it's not...

Like Emily Letelle used to say "It's Always Something"...

Ross

Ronnie Vernon MVP

Ross

Sorry it was such a PITA for you, but Thank You very much for posting the
information.

This will help others.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"ross m. greenberg" <greenber@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:48kyi.24147$t9.9684@bignews7.bellsouth.net...
> Unfortunately, the On Line Concierge for MSDN was not able to solve my
> "ENU" problem -- but MSDN Tech Support was able to!
>
> Basically this has been a problem that has since been resolved: the Visual
> Studio 2005 professional installation disk/DVD has two CD images on it,
> discs one and two. To solve the "ENU problem", copy it disc two from the
> DVD onto your desktop. Then open disc one off the DVD and
> control-a/select all and copy, then paste the buffer contents into the
> desktop copy on disk two. Then look for the Visual Studio setup program
> icon, right click on it and run as administrator. Visual Studio will now
> properly install. Now you must run SP1 of Visual Studio, found on MSDN
> DVD 4084.1: this will take a while. You're not done yet!
>
> Now, run Windows Update, which will grab the Vista update for Visual
> Studio. Finally, Visual Studio will install, and run properly on Vista.
>
> What a royal pain in the ass!
>
> Ross
>
>

Peter Foldes

Finally. Glad you got it sorted out Ross. Been an ongoing issue for a while

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"ross m. greenberg" <> wrote in message news:48kyi.24147$...
> Unfortunately, the On Line Concierge for MSDN was not able to solve my "ENU" problem -- but MSDN Tech Support was able to!
>
> Basically this has been a problem that has since been resolved: the Visual Studio 2005 professional installation disk/DVD has two CD images on it, discs one and two. To solve the "ENU problem", copy it disc two from the DVD onto your desktop. Then open disc one off the DVD and control-a/select all and copy, then paste the buffer contents into the desktop copy on disk two. Then look for the Visual Studio setup program icon, right click on it and run as administrator. Visual Studio will now properly install. Now you must run SP1 of Visual Studio, found on MSDN DVD 4084.1: this will take a while. You're not done yet!
>
> Now, run Windows Update, which will grab the Vista update for Visual Studio. Finally, Visual Studio will install, and run properly on Vista.
>
> What a royal pain in the ass!
>
> Ross
>
>

ross m. greenberg

>
> Sorry it was such a PITA for you, but Thank You very much for posting the
> information.
>
> This will help others.



Precisely why I was posting!

Now I'm trying to install the "pubs" and the "Northwind" databases. I downloaded them successfully however on trying to install them are supposed to use the command window of Visual Studio, however, I cannot locate it. Sigh.

It's supposed to be under the "Tools" menu of Visual Studio, but it's not...

Like Emily Letelle used to say "It's Always Something"...

Ross

Overheal

I have the ENU issue as well when I installed it - couldnt get anything to
compile beyond the pure basic stuff, like Hello World. the linker error that
came up a lot was missing 'glaux.lib'

But explain to me what you mean by handling these image files (for discs 1
and 2): I got both downloaded from the Online store as it were so I have 2
raw ISO files downloaded: en_vs_2005_pro_cd1 and 2. Do you mean just to open
up the Setup.exe in CD1 and run as administrator?? Or do you mean to Exlpore
the contents of CD2 and then paste CD1 and 2 into it?

Overheal

"ross m. greenberg" wrote:

> Unfortunately, the On Line Concierge for MSDN was not able to solve my "ENU" problem -- but MSDN Tech Support was able to!


What do you mean by "the ENU problem"?

ross m. greenberg

What I had discovered:


Basically this has been a problem that has since been resolved: the Visual Studio 2005 professional installation disk/DVD has two CD images on it, discs one and two. To solve the "ENU problem", copy disc two from the DVD onto your desktop. Then open disc one off the DVD and control-a/select all and copy, then paste the buffer contents into the desktop copy of disk two. Then look for the Visual Studio setup program icon, right click on it and run as administrator. Visual Studio will now properly install. Now you must run SP1 of Visual Studio, found on MSDN DVD 4084.1: this will take a while. You're not done yet!

Now, run Windows Update, which will grab the Vista update for Visual Studio. Finally, Visual Studio will install, and run properly on Vista.

What a royal pain in the ass!
"

Overheal

That doesn't really answer my question: I'm !=(Retard++); //I can in fact
read. There is no need to repost the same information albeit it with a typo
fix. I dont mean to be an ass about it but this problem has been bothering me
for weeks now.

I do not have the DVD: I have 2 ISO files.

1. Are you saying to open CD 1 and copy its contents into CD 2? That seems
like it would overwrite the program Files folder inside CD 2, for instance.

2. What program would I use to examine the contents, copy/paste and re-ISO
the image files (re-compress them as it were)?

Kindly, I'd request a little more input.

"ross m. greenberg" wrote:

> What I had discovered:
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> Basically this has been a problem that has since been resolved: the Visual Studio 2005 professional installation disk/DVD has two CD images on it, discs one and two. To solve the "ENU problem", copy disc two from the DVD onto your desktop. Then open disc one off the DVD and control-a/select all and copy, then paste the buffer contents into the desktop copy of disk two. Then look for the Visual Studio setup program icon, right click on it and run as administrator. Visual Studio will now properly install. Now you must run SP1 of Visual Studio, found on MSDN DVD 4084.1: this will take a while. You're not done yet!
>
> Now, run Windows Update, which will grab the Vista update for Visual Studio. Finally, Visual Studio will install, and run properly on Vista.
>
> What a royal pain in the ass!
> "
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