Microsoft KB Archive/823992

= BUG: When You Remove Visual C# .NET an Error May Occur If You Try to Install Visual Studio Tools for Office =

Article ID: 823992

Article Last Modified on 2/3/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System version 2003

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SYMPTOMS
When you try to install Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System on a computer with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Standard 2003 installed, you may receive the following error message:

Setup cannot detect the required version of Visual Studio .NET on this computer. Before you install this product, you must install a matching regional version of Visual Studio .NET 2003 or Visual Basic .NET 2003 Standard.



CAUSE
This error may occur if all the following conditions are sequentially true:
 * Visual Basic .NET Standard 2003 is installed on the computer.
 * Microsoft Visual C# .NET Standard 2003 is installed on the computer.
 * Visual C# .NET Standard 2003 is removed.
 * You try to install Visual Studio Tools for Office.



RESOLUTION
To work around this problem and to install Visual Studio Tools for Office, follow these steps:  Run a Repair of the Visual Basic .NET Standard 2003 installation:  In Control Panel, double-click Add or Remove Programs. Select the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Standard 2003 program in the list of installed programs, and then click Change/Remove. In the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Setup dialog box, select option 2 to repair the Visual Basic .NET installation. In the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Maintenance dialog box, click Repair/Reinstall. When the installation is complete, click Done, and then click Exit.</li> Close the Add or Remove Programs dialog box, and then close Control Panel.</li></ol> </li> Start the installation for Visual Studio Tools for Office.</li></ol>

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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Steps to Reproduce the Problem

 * 1) On a computer that is not running Visual Studio. NET 2003 and that does not have any Visual Studio .NET 2003 components installed, install Visual Basic .NET Standard 2003.
 * 2) Install Visual C# .NET Standard 2003.
 * 3) Remove Visual C# .NET Standard 2003.
 * 4) Try to install Visual Studio Tools for Office.

Notice that you receive the error message that is mentioned in the &quot;Symptoms&quot; section.

Keywords: kbbug KB823992

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