#MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2005 HOW TO#
#MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2005 UPDATE#

#MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2005 HOW TO#

Now, i know how to install VS on Vista Home. You should try VirtualBox at It runs faster than vmware and is opensource, aka Free!

Interesting.i just went thru many headaches with vmware and gave up on them. I have XP service pack 2.my system meets all the hardware requirements. I am unable to install Visual Studio 2005 on my laptop(LENOVO 3000N Series). Is there anything else that would trigger compat mode even if the checkbox isn't set? I'm installing from the DVD, so I don't know how it would have gotten set anyway. I checked that after I found the MSDN article. So can you try this and let me know how it goes? The reason for this is that compat mode shims the APIs for OS detection but does not fake the registry keys that VS setup uses to detect the presence of SP2, hence setup thinks that it's running on XP but without sp2. So could you go to the proprties section of setup.exe (as described above) and make sure that compat mode is turned off. VS2005 will not install if the compat mode is turned on. Kevin, I just talked to a colleague on the VS setup team. Obviously other people have been able to install succesfully, so I'm puzzled as to what's different about my setup. What version of Vista are you running? I just tried installing VSTD on Vista Enterprise ењ†4 and the product installation did not prompt for pre-requisites. Installing SP1 requires installing the base Visual Studio product first. I haven't tried installing in compatibility mode because MS explicitly says that this is NOT supported. I just read Vista SP1 is out and it specifically addresses Visual Studio issues.

Please send me a mail with the result: Estrada Csaky I'd intalled Visual Studio without compatibility mode enabled and I hadn't any problem. Had you tried install in compatibility mode?ДЈ- Do click in the second tab (I think that it's 'Security' but I'm not sure.Д¤- Now you enable the Compatibily mode and select 'Windows XP Service Pack 2'. If you can send me mail about this issue, I can put you in touch with someone who can help figure out what is going wrong. My guess is that when the installer is run from the DVD it ends up running in XP compatibility mode - but I have no idea why. However, based on other recommendations that I found online, I copied the DVD contents to my hard drive and successfully ran the install from there.

#MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2005 UPDATE#

UPDATE - Although Scott Guthrie and crew graciously offered to help track down the problem, I haven't heard back from them after our initial exchange. Does anyone know how to get around this problem? I've tried disabling UAC, but no difference. I've run the install as administrator, but no difference. However, I'm not selecting any compatibility mode when running the install. The only related info I've found from Microsoft is on the VS2005 on Vista issue list, which states that 'Visual Studio products fail to install in XP compatibility mode'. The installer always displays the following dialog, complaining that I don't have XP SP 2 installed: I've got a brand-spanking new, clean install of Vista on my laptop, and I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2005 on it.

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