visual basic 2008 on vista error

[jeffery]

have a problem installing visual basic 2008 express edition web install on
vista it completed installing the runtime components successfully and then it
says ".net framework 3.5 and the other components could not be installed".
how do i fix this? any help because it acts like it installed all the
components correctly then says they couldnt be installed and when i run the
continue script it just starts downloading and installing every component
from the beginning except the runtime files. it will not install the dot net
framework 3.5 on vista and iam pretty sure it may be 64 bit vista but it may
still be a 32 bit version. any help would be appreciated and this one stumped
me because it looks like its working correctly.

 

[aaron.kempf]

I'm not sure that anyone has ever explicitly said that VB 2008 willl
work on Vista.

If you want a seamless development platform across any OS- just use
VB6.

-Aaron

 

[Rory Becker]

Hello jeffery,

have a problem installing visual basic 2008 express edition web
install on vista it completed installing the runtime components
successfully and then it says ".net framework 3.5 and the other
components could not be installed". how do i fix this? any help
because it acts like it installed all the components correctly then
says they couldnt be installed and when i run the continue script it
just starts downloading and installing every component from the
beginning except the runtime files. it will not install the dot net
framework 3.5 on vista and iam pretty sure it may be 64 bit vista but
it may still be a 32 bit version. any help would be appreciated and
this one stumped me because it looks like its working correctly.

I'm afraid I have nothing to offer other than hope in this area.

I am successfully running VS2008 Professional on Vista ultimate 64bit.

So it should work. Express is a cut down version.

Perhaps you could ensure that you are running the setup routine with administrator
privilages, although I do not remember if I di that when I installed.

The only issue I have had with VS2008 is with development in conjunction
with IIS where the upgrade process of a VS"005 site required administrative
privilages and made a bad job of telling me this was what was wrong.

Perhaps others will have something more constructive to offer