VisualStudio & IE Browser

[JCO]

I finally realized that after instlling Visual Studio 6 (VC++ & VB
Development Tools) that my IE browser becomes selective in what sites it
will display. In other words, certain sites display a blank. This happens
after installing the Development Package.

I've read many newsgroups and Microsoft sites that talk about the IE
displaying a blank page, but can't find anything that connects it to Visual
Studio. I restored an image of Windows 2000 on another drive and tested it
again.

My guess is that I should not of updated the browser to 6.0. I believe, I
should of installed Visual Studio first, then upgraded the browser.... but
this is just a guess.

Thanks in advance.

 

[PA Bear]

Was IE (and all other applications, including AV) closed when you installed
Visual Studio 6?

 

[JCO]

Unfortunately I can't remember. My guess is that the browser was closed,
but I can't be 100% positive. This happened several months ago and I just
been dealing with it. Fortunately, this only effects my development machine
and not my normal everyday computer.

I installed the OS, Did all the updates, then made an image (for late
restoration). After all updates, I installed my development applications
(many apps). This seemed like the logical order to do things.

 

[Vanguard]

I finally realized that after instlling Visual Studio 6 (VC++ & VB
Development Tools) that my IE browser becomes selective in what sites it
will display. In other words, certain sites display a blank. This
happens
after installing the Development Package.

I've read many newsgroups and Microsoft sites that talk about the IE
displaying a blank page, but can't find anything that connects it to
Visual
Studio. I restored an image of Windows 2000 on another drive and tested
it
again.

My guess is that I should not of updated the browser to 6.0. I believe, I
should of installed Visual Studio first, then upgraded the browser.... but
this is just a guess.

Thanks in advance.

I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro. It comes with IE6 so it is
already there before I install anything else. I installed Visual Studio 6
(and later applied its Service Pack 6 although I'm leery that the problem
with a grid control bug in SP-6 will show up sometime later). I don't have
the problem you described but then I installed VS6 Pro and not the
"Development" version you mention (which presumably means the Enterprise
edition of Visual Studio) or the development applications you mention (which
wouldn't know what their installation or presence might affect).

You sure the problem is with Visual Studio? Have you tried disabling your
firewall, or looking into its logs to see if it is blocking some content?

I suppose you could try reinstalling IE6 in the hopes that it step atop
whatever stepped atop of it. You might have to do the reinstall twice.
Last time (quite awhile ago) when I tried it, the first reinstall simply did
a check of installed components and fixed any missing ones or those with a
different signature, while the second reinstall offered the choice to
replace all components (i.e., to step atop of itself). Apparently the setup
download program no longer allows the choice to have it download the
"network install" version of the install program (so you get the whole thing
so you can do the install offline). http://support.microsoft.com/?id=257249
says how to get around that defect. I couldn't find a link at their web
site to just do the huge download rather than bother with their 480KB
"setup" download manager program.