More problems with the VS2005 Community Preview after VPC install

March 28, 2004 @ 8:13 pm

A couple of days ago I wrote about some of the problems I encountered with the community preview installation. Specifically IIS got totally screwed up by the install and left me with no choice but to uninstall .Net 2.0 framework.

Today I spent the better part of the day installing Virtual PC and XP on my laptop, since this is the machine I have with me while I’m on the road. (I know I shouldn’t be taking chances like this installing pre-beta software but what the heck – live dangerously <g>).

I say it took the better part of the day, but this wasn’t the fault of VS this time, but the simple fact that Virtual PC is dead slow when trying to install. I ended up with a few install lockups apparently caused by VPC loosing the connection to the DVD drive. Restarting the console fixed things right up. I also installed VS.Net 2005 and MSDN which went relatively smoothly.

Now the bad news. Although I have completely different problems now, this clean installation is still causing major problems with IIS. I cannot get the IIS Management Console to open a property window any virtual directory or the virtual root. In fact, none of the property windows pop up. No error, no failure, but also no workie. This worked prior to the install of VS.Net…

But ASP.Net is working now. I can run my existing (1.1) apps fine with 2.0.

On the other hand I’ve had no luck with the VS.Net IDE. I converted an existing 1.1 project which seemed to work fine with the solution opening and showing properly in the Solution Manager. But trying to open any ASPX file results in an immediate crash of VS.Net. The crashes also hang the system solid until VS finally unloads at which point the Shell finally comes back and allows background processes to respond again.

I also quickly created new Web Site just for kicks and here too I got immediate crashes as soon as the HTML editor is coming up…

Finally I was trying to find some more information on ObjectSpaces and especially was hoping for finding an updated Mapping utility (since the downloaded sample version never worked on my databases). I wasn’t able to find anything on that either in the MSDN docs or by hunting through the menus. More disappointment… <sigh>.

It’s frustrating to have this stuff mess so much with the entire system. The IIS failures in particular are very troublesome as are the hangs. This is a development tool which is a desktop application and

I’m packing it in for tonight. I’m off to do something more productive…

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# re: More problems with the VS2005 Community Preview after VPC install
by Michael Giagnocavo March 29, 2004 @ 6:39 am

Yep. VS2005 really messed things up here too :). Well, I wanted to get a 10KRPM SATA drive and do a fresh install of everything to that, and well, this community preview finally gave me the excuse (now that I've gotta probably reinstall to fix IIS anyways...).

# IIS property pages
by Luke Stevens May 20, 2004 @ 6:37 am

Follow my link for instructions on restoring the IIS property pages.

# re: More problems with the VS2005 Community Preview after VPC install
by Steve at Pixelda April 28, 2005 @ 5:32 am

I am using VS2005 Beta 2 for a new project out later this year, and have a crash problem when making changes to a web form (e.g. simply adding a button and changing teh text). Thank gods I haven't got onto the ASP.NET / IIS programming module yet.

Same problem when executing the solution, but often works OK in release mode!

I find that editing the designer code directly works, but making changes within the form designer itself is definitly unstable.

I've also had to inform Microsoft of XML elated bugs as XML Spy complains about schemas verified by the new MSXML classes. duh!

# re: More problems with the VS2005 Community Preview after VPC install
by Nickkou June 06, 2006 @ 9:29 pm

I was looking for a solution to this problem and found it here. Thanks Luke Stevens!

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