OK, I just ended up having to burn one of my MSDN incidents :( because I could not get Visual Studio 2005 to install correctly, so I figured I'd blog the solution so someone else could benefit from it.
The Error
The error message I got simply said that Document Explorer 2005 failed to install. Tracing the event log I got the following:
Product: Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 -- The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2908. The arguments are: {FAA7C2AC-4205-4228-BEB6-6E647CCA9FD2}, ,
followed by:
Product: Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 -- Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.MSXML,Version="8.0.0.0",PublicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",Culture="neutral",FileVersion="8.0.50727.42",ProcessorArchitecture="MSIL"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x80131700. assembly interface: , function: CreateAssemblyNameObject, component: {B1BE189C-054D-4195-9C26-49D28C20DE94}
Product: Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 -- Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.MSXML,Version="8.0.0.0",PublicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a",Culture="neutral",FileVersion="8.0.50727.42",ProcessorArchitecture="MSIL"'. Please refer to Help and Support for more information. HRESULT: 0x80131700. assembly interface: , function: CreateAssemblyNameObject, component: {B1BE189C-054D-4195-9C26-49D28C20DE94}
The Solution
The problem was solved by following these steps:
- Uninstall .NET 2.0.
- Click "Start". The Windows Start Menu pops up.
- Click "Control Panel". The Control Panel windows opens.
- Double Click "Add/Remove Programs". The Add/Remove Programs window opens and after some period of scanning for applications, presents you with a list of installed applications.
- Select the ".NET Framework 2.0" application and select to remove it.
- Delete temp files.
- Click "Start". The Windows Start Menu pops up.
- Click "Run". The Run command window opens.
- Enter "%temp%" and click OK. This will open your Temp folder.
- Press Ctrl+A. This will select all the files in the folder.
- Press Shift+Del to delete all files listed that are not locked. The delete process may abort on error several times stating that a particular file could not be deleted. Simply unselect that given file by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking the file and continue the deletion. In my case there were 2 files that could not be deleted in the end.
- Add registry key.
- Click "Start". The Windows Start Menu pops up.
- Click "Run". The Run command window opens.
- Enter "regedit" and click OK. This will open RegEdit.
- Navigate down to HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer.
- Right click in the right hand pane. A popup menu with one option, "New" appears.
- Click "New". A new popup menu with several options appears.
- Click "String Value".
- Change the "New Value #1" text to "Logging".
- Double click the "Logging" entry. The value edit window opens.
- Change the value of the key to "VoiceWarmup" & click OK.
- Close RegEdit.
- Install the .NET Framework 2.0.
- Open Windows Explorer.
- Navigate to "D:\wcu\dotNetFramework".
- Double click "dotnetfx.exe" to install the framework.
- Install the Microsoft Document Explorer 2005.
- In Windows Explorer, navigate to "D:\wcu\DExplore".
- Double click "DExplore.exe" to install the Document Explorer.
- Install Visual Studio 2005 as per normal from here.
That worked for me... hopefully, it will work for you too! :)
Later
C
Later
C








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