I suspected that something was wrong with my installation of VS.net 2003
Professional. I was having problems in my debugger. I decided to do a
repair or update. The original install of VS was done on a DVD labeled May
2003 from MSDN. Subsequently I have received newer DVDs from MSDN with
VS.net 2003 professional on it. The latest is a yellow DVD, Disc 2431.1
(Dec 2003). I used this DVD. I went in and selected update/Repair
Prerequisites. This seemed to work OK. I did the same thing from the
VS.net 2003 Professional option on the main menu. It appeared to go fine
untill it reached a certain point where it couldn't find VS_Setup.msi. I
don't know why. I could see it right there on the new DVD in the place you
would expect it but when I selected it I got an error message of "Error
1706, No valid source could be found for product VS.net professional
English. The windows installer can not continue.
Because this failed and I did not know what else to do, I put the original
May 2003 DVD in the drive. Fortunately I had not thrown it away. It
accepted it and the install continued. I wondered afterwards if things
installed correctly.
Checking help about it says:
MS Development Environment: Version 7.1.3088.
MS net Framework 1.1 Version 1.1.4322
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 69462-335-0000007-18718
My question is, did things install correctly? It appears ok when I use it.
In the future, how do I, (shouldn't I) avoid using the older DVD. Why
wouldn't it continue with the DVD I have that is new.
If you simply do an update or repair is it normally as long a process as a
new install? It took over an hour.
What do I need to learn from this?
