dexplore.exe could not be unpackaged because it is not a cabinet.

Question

I am trying to install visual studio 2008 trial edition onto my laptop with vista ultimate. But installation fails, upon checking logs i found

wcu\dexplore\dexplore.exe could not be unpackaged because it is not a cabinet.

Thinking that dexplorer.exe may be corrupted i downloaded VS2008 trial edition three times but still same error.

When i tried to install Document explorer manual from dos prompt i get error message "program too big to fit in memory". If any body can proivde me any solution.

FYI : I already have vs 2008 express (VB, C#, VWD) editions successfully installed in the same laptop. these installations were successful at first shot.

 

ThankX & Regards

pinal bhatt

Answer 1

This happens when the image is corrupted, I know you said you downloaded 3 times, but I think that's still the problem. Try downloading again or use a different application for the download.

 

Thanks,

Veronica

 

Answer 2

Tried again, this time with magicISO, but no success........ same error................

any body any solution please................

-pinal bhatt

Answer 3

Hi Pinal

 

Try another software for downloading but not another software for burning ISO.

 

Thanks

Answer 4

 

trying to install Visual Studio 2008 90 trial.

I consistently recieved the error in the log file.
[12/21/07,16:36:13] Microsoft Do[12/21/07,16:36:13] Microsoft Document Explorer 2008: [2] e:\setup\..\wcu\dexplore\dexplore.exe could not be unpackaged because it is not a cabinet.

I downloaded Beta 1 four times.
I downloaded Beta 2 four times.

I tried four different operating systems(Vista Enterprise/Home Server 2003) on three different computers with different hardware specs(two Dell one Novatech).
used three diffrent unpackaging applicaions (Roxio,Nero and winrar).

In the end I was successful using WinRAR to unpackage the image and Beta 2 from URL below.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/5/205e60e8-e587-427d-86a3-77f6124cb9e2/OrcasBeta2ProX1394646.img
Change the file extension from .img to iso.
Unpackage to a directory on your hard disc. default install.
Woopeee it installed.

my conclusion is that because this is such a large file some thing is being corrupted in the download or unpackaging.
Comparing file sizes from the downloads was(especially dexplore) inconclusive.

Microsoft need to know about this problem because they must be alienating a lot of prospective 2008 uses.

Answer 5

Shall I conclude that i am not going to get solution from this forum???????????

Answer 6

I had the same error message when installing VS2008 from an ISO image dowloaded from MSDN on a clean XP machine that hadn't previously had VS installed.

 

I mounted the ISO image using VCdControlTool.exe rather than burning a DVD, and I assume the MSDN download software is reliable, so a corrupt image doesn't seem likely (unless the image on the MSDN download center is corrupt).

 

I had previously installed from the same ISO image on a different machine which had had VS2005 installed, and all was fine.

 

Since the failing file was dexplore.exe I tried installing MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 first, then retried the VS2008 install.  This time everything worked fine.

 

 

 

 

Answer 7

To resolve this issue make sure your machine has at least 1GB of RAM

Answer 8

Download the 3+GB file a 4th time? What kind of a nonsensical response is that???    

 

I have had a similar problem with installing Visual Studio 2008 (mainly due to Doc Explorer not installing).  The very same copy of VS2008 installs fine on 1 machine (running XP), but fails miserably on 3 other machines (running Vistas and XP MCE).  Moral of the story?  Another buggy product from MS, that's not compatible with other (buggy) MS products.  And don't even get me started on the 1001 things on Vista that are causing constant crashes on 60% of our 5,000+ systems.    

Answer 9

Here's a solution: stop wasting any more precious time and resources on Visual Studio and go with a competitor's product.  In fact, there are plenty of nice programming environments out there, many of which are absolutely free!  Start with Sun's eclipse, and go from there.  Their products actually both intall and work!  What a concept!!

Answer 10

Workaround: I installed the VS 2008 Team Explorer first ...which also - successfully - installs the Document Explorer.

 

After that the VS 2008 Professional installer ran successfully.

Answer 11

Hi Chief,
     I understand you are pretty mad about MS products.  I share the same on some of their products, except Visual Studio.  The one you mentioned Eclipse (Not sun's it is actually IBM source that they made it available for open source, Sun's is called netbeans not eclipse), is actually trying to be vs.net.  I dont know if you know this, lot of feature of eclipse is a copy from visual studio... :)

Thanks

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Answer 12

ur solution actually helped me.
thanks a ton!
suggest others to follow it.