Visual Studio 2005 & Vista 64 issues

[nzmike]

Hi,

Hoping someone out there can help me... I just built a new Vista Home
Premium 64 PC. So far everything has gone well so this morning I
decided to install Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Whilst installing I
got some dialogs saying there were compatibility issues with the O/S but
I let it install anyway assuming that the Vista SP1 would solve them
(which the MS site says it does).

So, apart from that, VS2005 installed fine and it does run (though I've
not tried to load any projects or compile etc) but I can't get the
VS2005 Vista SP1 package to run at all... even if I right click on the
.exe file and run it as an administrator after a moment it gives me this
error dialog and will not go any further:

"The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service
because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch
may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program
to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct
upgrade patch".

I am pretty much an XP expert but am *very* new to Vista and have no
idea what this might be – anyone got any idea what this could be or how
to solve it?

TIA for any suggestions....

Mike
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nzmike

[PvdG42]

"nzmike" <gu***@unknown-email.comwrote in message
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>
Hi,

Hoping someone out there can help me... I just built a new Vista Home
Premium 64 PC. So far everything has gone well so this morning I
decided to install Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Whilst installing I
got some dialogs saying there were compatibility issues with the O/S but
I let it install anyway assuming that the Vista SP1 would solve them
(which the MS site says it does).

So, apart from that, VS2005 installed fine and it does run (though I've
not tried to load any projects or compile etc) but I can't get the
VS2005 Vista SP1 package to run at all... even if I right click on the
exe file and run it as an administrator after a moment it gives me this
error dialog and will not go any further:

"The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service
because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch
may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program
to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct
upgrade patch".

I am pretty much an XP expert but am *very* new to Vista and have no
idea what this might be - anyone got any idea what this could be or how
to solve it?

TIA for any suggestions....

Mike
--
nzmike

Did you install SP1 for VS 2005, then install the Vista patch for SP 2005?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2005/bb265237.aspx

[nzmike]

Yes, thanks - eventually I realised that's what I needed to do and I
found the normal SP1 package by googling (since the MS link was broken -
how typical is that?!). Once I re-installed VS2005 by copying the files
from the DVD then applied the two SP's it went fine.

Cheers,

Mike
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nzmike

[Jeff Winn]

I would have bought VS2008 Pro - you could have targeted the 2.0 version of
the framework (which VS2005 uses) if you had to use that version of the
framework. That's a new feature available in 2008. Also, the VS2008 IDE is
supported by Vista out of the box, and you're not buying software that's 3
years old already. However this is just my humble opinion.

Always welcome more developers in the .NET community!

"nzmike" <gu***@unknown-email.comwrote in message
news:f0******************************@nntp-gateway.com...

>
Yes, thanks - eventually I realised that's what I needed to do and I
found the normal SP1 package by googling (since the MS link was broken -
how typical is that?!). Once I re-installed VS2005 by copying the files
from the DVD then applied the two SP's it went fine.

Cheers,

Mike
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nzmike