I was trying to install Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition downloaded from http://www.asp.net/downloads/essential/ in my Windows Vista Home Edition and it failed, saying an error as:

Error occurred during setup: The following component was not attempted: Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition - ENU

Followed with a popup window from Program Compactibility Assistant saying:

This program might not have installed correctly. If the program didn't install correctly, try reinstalling using settings that are compatible with this version of Windows.Program: IExpress Setup

Checked the dd logs file in temp, log files include: dd_netfx20UI6F5C.txt, dd_depcheck80.txt, dd_vserror80.txt, dd_vsinstall80.txt with following errors

dd_netfx20UI6F5C.txt

***ERROR EVENT*** : SYSTEM CHECK: : OCM product installed  Failed

dd_vserror80.txt

setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper() with HRESULT -2147172341.
setup.exe: [2] Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()
ExpressUI: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper() with HRESULT -2147172341.
setup.exe: [2] Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()

dd_vsinstall80.txt

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition - ENU: dlmgr: CDownloadJobBITSImpl::GetState(): TransientError
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition - ENU: dlmgr: Unable to GetErrorDescription : hr= 0x80073afc
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition - ENU: dlmgr: Transient Error
Context: 5 Error code: -2145386480 Description: No description available.
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition - ENU: dlmgr: CDownloadJobBITSImpl::SuspendJob()
Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition - ENU: dlmgr: CDownloadJobBITSImpl::RunToFinish() : Retrying download. Retries= 1

Appreciate if anyone can help me to resolve it so I can proceed with the installation and start off my asp.net development.

Thanks!

regards, jaz