Parallel installation of visual studio express 2005 C++ and C#

[Lothar Behrens]

Hi,

I have a Pentium M 1.7 GHz box (IBM T43) and have installed Visual C++
2005 Express with no problems. But now when I install C# 2005 Express
or even the C #2008 Express, I get an installation error.

I haven't determined why this happens, but I cannot use C# and C++ on
the same machine.

Why does this not work?

Are there any known issues how to work around this problem?

Thanks

Lothar

 

[Peter Duniho]

Hi,

I have a Pentium M 1.7 GHz box (IBM T43) and have installed Visual C++
2005 Express with no problems. But now when I install C# 2005 Express
or even the C #2008 Express, I get an installation error.

I'm not aware of any typical problems like that. What is the
installation error exactly? Do you have the setup log file?

I haven't determined why this happens, but I cannot use C# and C++ on
the same machine.

Why does this not work?

Are there any known issues how to work around this problem?

I would say that as a first step, you might try uninstalling all
versions of Visual Studio, and then installing the 2010 versions of the
Express IDEs you want to use. Even if something's gone wrong with your
computer's configuration, perhaps you can get away with avoiding the
issue by just the newer versions.

If for some reason you absolutely must be stuck two versions back with
the 2005 versions, I would say that the obvious alternative is to
uninstall and reinstall the 2005 versions and see if that clears things
up. After uninstalling the existing installed programs, maybe try
installing C# first, then C++.

If that doesn't work, you may have to try backing up all your data, and
reinstalling the OS on a clean disk before trying to install the VS
versions again. It's theoretically possible to work through an
irregular issue like this, but unless the error message is clear and
comes with an obvious correction, the work involved is almost always
much greater than the time spent just reinstalling things.

If it's been a year or two since your OS was installed on a clean disk,
it's probably a good time to do that anyway.

Pete

 

[Lothar Behrens]

I'm not aware of any typical problems like that.  What is the
installation error exactly?  Do you have the setup log file?




I would say that as a first step, you might try uninstalling all
versions of Visual Studio, and then installing the 2010 versions of the
Express IDEs you want to use.  Even if something's gone wrong with your
computer's configuration, perhaps you can get away with avoiding the
issue by just the newer versions.

If for some reason you absolutely must be stuck two versions back with
the 2005 versions, I would say that the obvious alternative is to
uninstall and reinstall the 2005 versions and see if that clears things
up.  After uninstalling the existing installed programs, maybe try
installing C# first, then C++.

If that doesn't work, you may have to try backing up all your data, and
reinstalling the OS on a clean disk before trying to install the VS
versions again.  It's theoretically possible to work through an
irregular issue like this, but unless the error message is clear and
comes with an obvious correction, the work involved is almost always
much greater than the time spent just reinstalling things.

If it's been a year or two since your OS was installed on a clean disk,
it's probably a good time to do that anyway.  

Pete

Until now I have gon an answer that the express versions decline
parallel installations. I now have C++ Express 2005 and SharpDevelop
3.2. That is a working
compromise for me.

Thanks

Lothar

 

[Karl Mitschke]

Hello Lothar,

Until now I have gon an answer that the express versions decline
parallel installations. I now have C++ Express 2005 and SharpDevelop
3.2. That is a working
compromise for me.
Thanks

Lothar

I have had 2005 express C#, 2006 Express C++, 2005 Express WVD, 2005 Express
VB all installed at once on the same PC - it's definitely a "Something's
wrong with your PC" scenario.

The only thing I didn’t like is that there is 1) no integrated IDE, and 2)
Each create their own program group in the start menu.

With the Express 2008 editions I had both C# and VWD installed at the same
time, with the same two minor annoyances

Karl
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