Help: Visual Basic Setup Problems
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From: Searcher7 on 30 Jan 2010 16:06 I picked up a book to learn Visual basic but cannot install it on my system after I download it from this site: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/. I'm assuming my pc is the problem, but have no idea where to start. It seems to stat installing, but then I get a pop-up that says: "Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition with SP1 - ENU has encountered a problem during setup. Setup did not complete correctly." Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York.
From: MikeD on 30 Jan 2010 17:17 "Searcher7" <Searcher7(a)mail.con2.com> wrote in message news:8d826a8b-d43e-4e28-b817-5323f41c7b75(a)o20g2000vbi.googlegroups.com... > I picked up a book to learn Visual basic but cannot install it on my > system after I download it from this site: > http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/. > > I'm assuming my pc is the problem, but have no idea where to start. > > It seems to stat installing, but then I get a pop-up that says: > "Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition with SP1 - ENU has > encountered a problem during setup. Setup did not complete correctly." > > Any help would be appreciated. Ralph told you the proper newsgroup to post to, but gave no explanation as to why...and people posting for the first time (making an assumption) should know why. This newsgroup is for VB6 and under. There are significant differences between VB6 and all later versions of what MS calls VB. Thus, there are different newsgroups for each. The newsgroups for all versions AFTER VB6 have either "dotnet" or "vsnet" in their name. To confuse matters, MS dropped the ".NET" from the product name. But it's still .NET and therefore questions regarding it should be posted to a dotnet newsgroup. -- Mike
From: Laurie on 30 Jan 2010 21:19 Hi Mike, Your last paragraph should have been left off. My reading of the title this NG is that it is a VB NET newsgroup. Regards, Laurie MikeD wrote: > > > "Searcher7" <Searcher7(a)mail.con2.com> wrote in message > news:8d826a8b-d43e-4e28-b817-5323f41c7b75(a)o20g2000vbi.googlegroups.com... >> I picked up a book to learn Visual basic but cannot install it on my >> system after I download it from this site: >> http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/. >> >> I'm assuming my pc is the problem, but have no idea where to start. >> >> It seems to stat installing, but then I get a pop-up that says: >> "Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition with SP1 - ENU has >> encountered a problem during setup. Setup did not complete correctly." >> >> Any help would be appreciated. > > > Ralph told you the proper newsgroup to post to, but gave no explanation > as to why...and people posting for the first time (making an assumption) > should know why. > > This newsgroup is for VB6 and under. There are significant differences > between VB6 and all later versions of what MS calls VB. Thus, there are > different newsgroups for each. The newsgroups for all versions AFTER VB6 > have either "dotnet" or "vsnet" in their name. To confuse matters, MS > dropped the ".NET" from the product name. But it's still .NET and > therefore questions regarding it should be posted to a dotnet newsgroup. >
From: Laurie on 31 Jan 2010 02:33 Hi, Hmmmm This message is multi-posted. Makes everything even more confusing than need be. Regards, Laurie Laurie wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Your last paragraph should have been left off. My reading of the title > this NG is that it is a VB NET newsgroup. > > > Regards, > > > Laurie > > MikeD wrote: >> >> >> "Searcher7" <Searcher7(a)mail.con2.com> wrote in message >> news:8d826a8b-d43e-4e28-b817-5323f41c7b75(a)o20g2000vbi.googlegroups.com... >>> I picked up a book to learn Visual basic but cannot install it on my >>> system after I download it from this site: >>> http://www.microsoft.com/express/Windows/. >>> >>> I'm assuming my pc is the problem, but have no idea where to start. >>> >>> It seems to stat installing, but then I get a pop-up that says: >>> "Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition with SP1 - ENU has >>> encountered a problem during setup. Setup did not complete correctly." >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> >> Ralph told you the proper newsgroup to post to, but gave no >> explanation as to why...and people posting for the first time (making >> an assumption) should know why. >> >> This newsgroup is for VB6 and under. There are significant differences >> between VB6 and all later versions of what MS calls VB. Thus, there >> are different newsgroups for each. The newsgroups for all versions >> AFTER VB6 have either "dotnet" or "vsnet" in their name. To confuse >> matters, MS dropped the ".NET" from the product name. But it's still >> .NET and therefore questions regarding it should be posted to a dotnet >> newsgroup. >>
From: Mike Williams on 31 Jan 2010 02:33
"Laurie" <laurie(a)I_hate_spam.com.au> wrote in message news:eXq%23hvhoKHA.3664(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Your [Mike D's] last paragraph should have been left off. > My reading of the title this NG is that it is a VB NET > newsgroup. The OP cross posted to two groups, one of which (the dotnet.languages.vb one) is the correct group for the product he is using and the other of which is not. The OP needs to know that he should not have posted to the Classic VB group regardless of whether or not his post was also cross posted to the correct group. To the OP: The comp.lang.basic.visual.misc group is the real Visual Basic newsgroup and the last and final version of Visual Basic is VB6. The product you are using, which is misleadingly called Visual Basic 2008 Express, is NOT real Visual Basic. It is a variant of what is commonly called VB.Net and your questions regarding it should NOT be either posted or cross posted to the real Visual Basic group. Generally, apart from a few very simple exceptions, VB6 code does not work in VB.Net and VB.Net code does not work in VB6, and neither of them will compile or run in the IDE of the other. They are as different as chalk and cheese. Unfortunately, in order to deliberately confuse the punters and to dishonestly maximize profits, Micro$oft sprinkled their new and otherwise completely different product with some Basic sounding constructs and gave it a Basic sounding name and they pretended that it is the next version of Visual Basic when in fact it is not. The name they have given to their new product, the one you are using, is a deliberate lie. Micro$oft are lying about it in much the same way that a food manufacturer would be lying if he stuck "Cup a Soup" labels on packets of long grain rice, nothwithstanding the fact that he might be the registered owner of the name "Cup a Soup". A food manufacturer of course would be prosecuted in the courts of law for such a deliberately dishonest act, but consumer law in most countries is still decades behind the times and has not yet got its act together in respect of software, although the EU is rapidly working towards it (which is why Micro$oft hates us over here). Your erroneous posting is not your fault of course because you have been misled by Micro$oft and in the circumstances it is not surprising that you have been taken in by Micro$oft's subterfuge and have cross posted to the wrong group. Micro$oft would never openly acknowledge their dishonesty of course, but they have tacitly admitted to it by creating a new and completely different newsgroup on their own public servers for their new and completely different product. To summarise, one of the groups you have posted to, as mentioned above, is for the real Visual Basic and you should not post or cross post any of your VB.Net questions to that group. If you have questions about the imposter then you should post them to the imposter's own newsgroup at: microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb Mike |