VS2005 Pro Setup Fails on Vista Ultimate

Question

Trying to install and get the warning "Missing Required Prerequisites: Windows XP Service Pack 2" setup ends. Does anyone have a suggestion.

Thanks

Answer 1

You have to run the setup program as an admin.  Explore the cd and right click on the setup program and select run as admin

Answer 2

Thanks for the quick response. I've already tried that but it still fails with" Setup has detected your system does not meet the minimum requirements..."

Required Prerequisites
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Update Information 
You must install this service pack to complete installation. Visual Studio requires that this service pack be installed before you install Visual Studio.

Answer 3

Hope this helps someone else.

I looked at a couple of the files placed in the temp folder and found this in the "dd_depcheck80.txt" file

 

[02/03/07,16:59:40] Windows XP Service Pack 2 Update Information
[02/03/07,16:59:40]  This component uses the RegDwordCheck version check method. It will compare a DWORD against registry data on your machine.
[02/03/07,16:59:40]  Registry key being interrogated: HKLM,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows; Value: CSDVersion; Version: 512.
[02/03/07,16:59:40]  Version on user's machine: 0.
[02/03/07,16:59:40]  Version to be installed: 512.

 

I changed the value to 512 and the installation progressed without requiring service pack 2. Took me two days to figure this out.

Answer 4

Well this is getting old. Now fails because:

[02/03/07,17:23:16] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper() with HRESULT -2147023293.
[02/03/07,17:23:17] setup.exe: [2] Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()
[02/03/07,17:23:30] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates MSXML 6.0 Parser is not installed.
[02/03/07,17:23:30] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forMicrosoft Document Explorer 2005
[02/03/07,17:23:30] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[02/03/07,17:23:30] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status for.NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3
[02/03/07,17:23:30] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status for.NET Compact Framework 2.0
[02/03/07,17:23:30] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forMicrosoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package
[02/03/07,17:23:30] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forSQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition
[02/03/07,17:23:30] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forMicrosoft Device Emulator version 1.0
[02/03/07,17:23:30] VS70pgui: [2] Unknown component status forMicrosoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x86

Answer 5

I've tried everything I can think of, manually installing MSXML 6.0 , copying DVD to hard drive and runnning setup as administrator, redownloaded VSTeam from MSDN and tried installing but still can't get past the MSXML. Has anyone had any similar issues. I've googled my fingertips off.

Answer 6

Try repairing your .NET Framework 2.0 installation.

Answer 7

In case anyone else has this problem here is the solution. Even though the install reports it can't install MSXML, what it REALLY needs is document explorer (loacted in the DExplore folder under the wcu folder). Once I ran DExplore.exe, the installation ran fine. Took two hours on the phone with MSDN support to figure it out. (Thanks Vimal Thiagaraj)

You also need to add the registry setting to get past the XP Service Pack 2 complaint.

Answer 8

I have changed the registry settings and installed document explorer, but I receive the same error message. What's wrong?

Thanks

Answer 9

pdDallas wrote:

In case anyone else has this problem here is the solution. Even though the install reports it can't install MSXML, what it REALLY needs is document explorer (loacted in the DExplore folder under the wcu folder). Once I ran DExplore.exe, the installation ran fine. Took two hours on the phone with MSDN support to figure it out. (Thanks Vimal Thiagaraj) You also need to add the registry setting to get past the XP Service Pack 2 complaint.

this is not about Visual Studio, but i have exact same problem on Vista 64bit. Microsoft Student 2007 won't start because it complains that MSXML is not installed. Vista already ships with MSXML 6.10. And according to MS KB Student 2007 uses MSXML 6.0. Which i can't install because a newer version is already present. I also tried installed MSXML 4.0 SP2, which did install fine, but still didn't solved the issue.

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8706/clipboard01bk7.jpg

So like i said, this is not about Visual Studio, but its excact same problem, programs on Vista for some reason can't find/see MSXML already installed.

I spend few hours going to google, microsoft side forums, and I belive this is the best place to ask, because its the excact same problem, just different software is affected.

Answer 10

I had the same problem but ran setup.exe from vs/setup directory (as an admin) and the problem went away.  Don't ask why.