Did anyone successfully install VC 2005 exp.?

Hi all,

Did anyone successfully install VC++ 2005 express.?

I installed dotnetfx.exe (creation date:2005/9/23)
I burned a CD with VC++ (.img)and run setup.exe
Everything is fine, except just before the end of the
installation process. It says "Microsoft VC Express has
excountered a problem and needs to see"

If I click "send error report" or "don't send" button,
the message keeps showing on screen (even you close it)

If you remove the tick in the checkbox "Restart Visual C++
2005 Express Edition", it says finish installation and
reboot. Then I run VC++ express and go to "Tools>options" to
set VC++ directories, this message appears again.

What should I do?

(I asked the same questions on official forum yesterday,
no answers are received up to this point of time)

Thanks in advance.
Sammy
:)

Er.. that's just a standard Windows error. It could be almost anything. I had no problems installing Visual C++ 2005 Express. Do you meet all the requirements? Have you got the .Net Framework Version 2 installed? Do you have SP2 for Windows XP installed?

Everything worked and still works fine for me. Can't really help you since given that I don't know why it would occur.

What version of Windows are you using?

no problems here, except getting non .NET pc's to run things I compiled with it. Anyway to get around that?

As long as you're compiling native stuff instead of .NET programs, just set the runtime library to 'multithreaded' instead of 'multithreaded dll'

ya'd think wouldnt ya! that doesnt seem to be the case,
I'm already ising multithreaded (i think its /MT off the top of my head)
even halting a dll before ogre_main.dll has had a chance to load (just in case its other dlls bringing in the dependency!), I still see some files open in c:\windows\WinSxS even if these dll's are supplied in the app's directory the problem still exists (its somthing todo with side by side dll's)

all in all using microsoft compilers is a nightmare of dll hell and I wish I'd never taken the "short cut"

If VC express wont install for you, take that as a lucky break and use somthing else instead !! :o)

by making oblivion playable do you mean so it actually runns at a decent frames per second, i have a 3ghz machine with a gt6600 gfx card and it still aint fast enough!

I've compiled plenty of command line apps and dlls with VC++ 2005, and have never manged to create one dependent on any extra .NET gunk. (This was compiled with VS2005 express, and depends on nothing but kernel32.dll.) I've never compiled any gui stuff with it though, so maybe that's different.


No, I mean that it CTDs when I leave the tutorial dungeon. Luckly, that's as far as I need to get in order to mod it, which was at least 78% of the point of me buying the game.

Hi all,

Thank you for your reply.

I have .Net Framework Version 2 installed
and SP2 for Windows XP.

I tried the same CD on another destkop. It's ok.
I have to check if this is related to patch files of xp

Sammy
:)