Microsoft KB Archive/822354

= Visual Studio .NET 2003 Readme (Part 1) =

Article ID: 822354

Article Last Modified on 5/23/2007

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 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition

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SUMMARY
This article contains Part 1 of the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Readme file. For Part 2 of the Readme, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

822355 Visual Studio .NET 2003 Readme (Part 2)



MORE INFORMATION
This document contains notes for installing Visual Studio .NET 2003. For the latest installation notes, see the online Visual Studio .NET 2003 Readme at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=8861. For known product issues, see http://support.microsoft.com/vsnet2003.

1. Getting Started
The End-User License Agreement (EULA.txt) for Visual Studio .NET 2003 is available for reference on CD1 in the Setup folder. Note All procedures described in this readme are based on Microsoft® Windows® 2000. Modify the steps that interface with the operating system if you are using a different version of Windows.

1.1. Related Readmes
In addition to this Visual Studio .NET 2003 product readme, Visual Studio .NET 2003 includes other readme documents that contain information pertinent to specific product areas. The following list contains the names of related readme documents and their locations on supplied media.

1.2. Using MSDN® with Visual Studio .NET 2003
The MSDN Library, which is designed to be used with Visual Studio .NET 2003, provides a broad range of help and documentation for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and other Microsoft technologies. During setup of Visual Studio .NET 2003, or at any other time, you can choose to install and integrate a later version of the MSDN Library than the version that is included with Visual Studio .NET 2003. The April 2003 or later versions of the MSDN Library can be integrated with Visual Studio .NET 2003. Earlier versions, such as January 2003, cannot be integrated with Visual Studio .NET 2003 and do not contain documentation for Visual Studio .NET 2003.

2. System Requirements
The tables below list requirements for different installation options of Visual Studio .NET 2003. The Notes identified here apply to both tables.

System Requirements for Installing Visual Studio .NET 2003

System Requirements for Installing Standard Editions of: Visual Basic® .NET 2003, Visual C++® .NET 2003, Visual C#™ .NET 2003, Visual J#™ .NET 2003

Notes
 * 1) Windows XP Home Edition provides limited functionality. Creating Web applications or XML Web services is not supported when using Windows XP Home Edition.
 * 2) ASP.NET applications can only be hosted on Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003.
 * 3) Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server is not a supported operating system.
 * 4) Increasing your RAM above the recommended system configuration increases your performance specifically when running multiple applications, working with large projects, or doing enterprise-level development.
 * 5) When you start the Visual Studio .NET 2003 installer, the default installation location is your system drive, which is the drive that boots your system. However, you can install the application on any drive. Regardless of the application's location, the installation process installs some files on your system drive. Consequently, ensure that the required amount of space identified in the tables above is available on your system drive regardless of the application's location, and ensure that additional space is available on the drive on which you install the application. Custom installation choices may require more or less drive space.
 * 6) Windows 2000 Service Packs are available at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/default.mspx.

2.1. Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 Compatibility
Both Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Studio 6.0 can be installed on the same computer and run at the same time. For more information, see &quot;Upgrading Applications&quot;, available in the MSDN Library.

2.2. Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 Compatibility
Both Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 can be installed on the same computer and run at the same time.

3. Preparing to Install Visual Studio .NET 2003
For the latest installation instructions for Visual Studio .NET 2003, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=8861.
 * Before installing Visual Studio .NET 2003, verify that you have met the system requirements and follow the instructions below for preparing to install Visual Studio .NET 2003.
 * If you use Microsoft Office XP Developer, you must install it prior to .NET Framework SDK and MSDN for Visual Studio .NET 2003. Otherwise the Office Developer Help documentation will not be available.

3.1. Uninstalling Prerelease Versions
Important If you have previously installed prerelease versions of the following products on your computer, you must uninstall those versions before installing Visual Studio .NET 2003:
 * Visual Studio .NET 2003 Beta 1 or later prerelease versions.
 * MSDN Library for Visual Studio .NET 2003 Beta 1 or later prerelease versions.
 * .NET Framework 1.1 (and .NET Framework 1.1 Language Packs) Beta 1 or later prerelease versions.
 * .NET Framework SDK 1.1 Beta 1 or later prerelease versions.
 * Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1 (and Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1 Language Packs) Beta 1 or later prerelease versions.
 * Smart Device Extensions Beta 1.
 * Visual Studio .NET 2002 Beta 2 or later prerelease versions.
 * Visual Studio .NET 7.0 Beta 1.
 * Visual Studio 7.0 PDC Technology Preview.

Note For optimal installation of Visual Studio .NET 2003, you may need to reformat your computer if you previously installed the prerelease versions of the products listed above.

To uninstall prerelease versions of most programs

Note Instructions for uninstalling Visual Studio 7.0 PDC Technology Preview follow this procedure. From the Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Add/Remove Programs, and then click Change or Remove Programs. The following table provides instructions for the various prerelease versions.

1 language is the specific language of the pack, for example, Japanese.

Note After uninstalling Visual Studio .NET 2003 Beta 1 and MSDN Library for Visual Studio .NET 2003 Beta 1, using the following procedure to delete the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7:  From the Start menu, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. In the Registry Editor, expand the hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Visual Studio\SxS. Right-click the VS7 key and click Delete in the shortcut menu. In the Confirm Key Delete dialog box, click Yes to delete the registry key.

To uninstall Visual Studio 7.0 PDC Technology Preview  From the Start menu, click Run.  In the Open dialog box, type the following: msiexec.exe /x {33334F07-0C6B-11D3-A51D-00A0C9231BA1} NOVSUI=1 Select Yes to remove Visual Studio .NET PDC Technology Preview. </li>  In the Open dialog box, type the following: msiexec.exe /x {62EDCF3C-69F4-11D3-A521-00A0C9231BA1} Select Yes to remove the Prerelease Bootstrap for Visual Studio .NET PDC Technology Preview. </li> From the Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.</li> Double-click Add or Remove Programs, and then click Change or Remove Programs.</li> Select Microsoft NGWS SDK, click Change/Remove, and click Yes to proceed.</li> Delete all files from \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft Help. This step ensures the removal of PDC release documentation.</li></ol>

3.2. Uninstalling Visual Studio Analyzer 6.0
The version of Visual Studio Analyzer shipping with Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer and Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect editions is not compatible with Visual Studio Analyzer 6.0.

If you are installing Visual Studio Analyzer that is included with the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer or Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect on a computer that has Visual Studio Analyzer 6.0 installed, uninstall Visual Studio Analyzer 6.0 before installing Visual Studio .NET 2003.

If you have mistakenly installed both versions on the same computer, you cannot collect events in Visual Studio Analyzer. You must uninstall one version of the product and follow the instructions below to repair the remaining installed version.

To repair Visual Studio Analyzer after uninstalling Visual Studio Analyzer 6.0
 * 1) Restart your computer.
 * 2) Run RegisterAnalyzerv7.bat from [Visual Studio .NET installation directory]\Common7\Tools\Analyzer.

To repair Visual Studio Analyzer 6.0 after uninstalling Visual Studio Analyzer
 * 1) Before uninstalling Visual Studio Analyzer, copy the following files from [Visual Studio .NET installation directory]\Common7\Tools\Analyzer to [Visual Studio 6.0 installation directory]\Common\Tools\VS-ENT98\Vanalyzr:

RegisterAnalyzerv7.bat

VSAReg.exe
 * 1) After uninstalling Visual Studio Analyzer, run RegisterAnalyzerv6.bat from [Visual Studio 6.0 installation directory]\Common\Tools\VS-ENT98\Vanalyzr.

3.2.1. Visual Studio Analyzer Version Installation Notes
Due to the nature of Visual Studio Analyzer, a particular machine may have only one version registered at a time. If you install Visual Studio .NET 2002 and its accompanying version of Visual Studio Analyzer on a machine and subsequently install Visual Studio .NET 2003 and its accompanying version of Visual Studio Analyzer on the same machine, you collect events from the version that was installed last.

To resolve this issue

To switch from one version to the other, run &quot;RegisterAnalyzerv7.bat&quot; from the \Common7\Tools\Analyzer path in the Visual Studio .NET installation directory of the version you want to use.

3.3. Visual Studio .NET 2003 Prerequisites for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Visual Studio .NET 2003 supports IPv6 on computers running Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP with a minimum of Service Pack 1.

On computers running Windows XP, you must install Windows XP Service Pack 1 before installing Visual Studio .NET 2003 if your projects rely on IPv6. In IPv6 scenarios, critical functions, such as opening and creating Visual Studio .NET projects, may fail if the service pack is not installed. If your projects do not rely on IPv6, installation of the service pack is not required.

If you have installed Visual Studio .NET 2003 before installing Windows XP Service Pack 1 and your projects rely on IPv6, see the KB article at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=11968. Windows XP Service Packs are available at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/default.mspx. For additional information about enabling IPv6 for Visual Studio .NET 2003, read the file named IPv6.htm in the Setup directory of Visual Studio .NET 2003 CD1.

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