Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Installation problem.

[Benjamin.Nitschke]

Today I installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 from the Visual
Studio Beta Experience Kit. After installing (which takes way to long)
when I open Visual Studio 2005 I only get a message box saying "A
problem was encountered loading the Microsoft Visual Studio menu.
Please run setup and select Repair". I did that and that took another
hour to install and I still got the same problem. Can't see any log
file or system event message describing the problem in greater detail
(Any useful error message would help me way more).

The installer had some problems with some additional products (like j#
or web components), but that happend for previous Beta 1 installers as
well and Visual Studio still worked. I had the Beta1 version installed,
then the December and then the February CTP versions (all those
versions got their own problems, but at least I got them started). I
uninstalled them, but maybe there are some wrong registry settings or
old files flying around causing this trouble.

Anyone any idea? Don't want to reinstall everything over and over when
I still got the same error every time.

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Today I installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 from the Visual
Studio Beta Experience Kit. After installing (which takes way to long)
when I open Visual Studio 2005 I only get a message box saying "A
problem was encountered loading the Microsoft Visual Studio menu.
Please run setup and select Repair". I did that and that took another
hour to install and I still got the same problem. Can't see any log
file or system event message describing the problem in greater detail
(Any useful error message would help me way more).

The installer had some problems with some additional products (like j#
or web components), but that happend for previous Beta 1 installers as
well and Visual Studio still worked. I had the Beta1 version installed,
then the December and then the February CTP versions (all those
versions got their own problems, but at least I got them started). I
uninstalled them, but maybe there are some wrong registry settings or
old files flying around causing this trouble.

Anyone any idea? Don't want to reinstall everything over and over when
I still got the same error every time.

Please post Beta2 issues/questions to one of the Forum at
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/

Willy.

 

[Benjamin.Nitschke]

thanks, have done that now:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?postid=6821&isthread=true

 

[Jared Parsons [MSFT]]

If you had previous installs of Whidbey on the machine (say beta1) then you
need to run the cleanup tool so Beta2 will work. Check out this article for
more information.

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/04/30/413764.aspx