Having trouble getting ASP.NET framework, cannot add MS Visual Web Developer, etc.

Hello all. I'm big time frustrated here. I'm on Windows XP Home. I recently had issues, and had to do a PC Recovery. All of my files are here, but some of the programs won't work. One of them that won't is Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. We need to get VWD working!

I had to do a ton of Windows Updates all over again. I try to add Service Packs, 1, 2, 3.5, 4 client and 4 full, and I think I did it, but then I think I didn't. I can't tell if I did or didn't. I'm pretty sure I have SP 1 and 2 installed, and ASP.NET 2.0 Framework. But anything beyond that, I get errors.

If you have a second, we uploaded screenshots of my errors into photobucket:

http://s1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc387/jdluski/

Can anyone point us in the right direction? We've tried every Microsoft solution, and it always results in a "cannot download" error or something. Any advice helping us out here would be truly appreciated!

Jason Weber / Jennifer Dluski-Weber

Re: Having trouble getting ASP.NET framework, cannot add MS Visual Web Developer, etc.

save your work.

Re-format PC

Re: Having trouble getting ASP.NET framework, cannot add MS Visual Web Developer, etc.

Hi there

Resinstallation of windows will solve your problem.

Re: Having trouble getting ASP.NET framework, cannot add MS Visual Web Developer, etc.

What is the service pack for windows XP? If you have installed earlier pre-release versions of .NET Framework 3.5, then you must uninstall them. Do you have windows installer 3.1 installed, this is one pre-requisite? Check the event viewer, if it shows any information?

Hope this helps

Thank You

Re: Having trouble getting ASP.NET framework, cannot add MS Visual Web Developer, etc.

Hello. I used the Visual Studio uninstaller, but I think that it didn't uinstall EVERYTHING that VWD left behind, and that's the reason the install kept on failing. Once I manually deleted every instance of VWD from my registry, and manually removed instances of VWD via Windows Explorer, then it finally installed properly, along with MS SQL Server RS 2008. So basically, I believe that's what was happening. It also helped that I used Aaron's msdn blog for a direct download link, although I still use the Platform Installer for other things, like MVC 3.0 tools, etc.

Thank you all for your time in responding, and thank you for your advice -- it's much appreciated!

Jason Weber

Re: Having trouble getting ASP.NET framework, cannot add MS Visual Web Developer, etc.

looks like an installed crashed during installing something and it may have left something behind

there is a free tool called ccleaner (google it) , and it will try to fix broken registery values and similar errors

if that didnt work, re-install windows.

Re: Having trouble getting ASP.NET framework, cannot add MS Visual Web Developer, etc.

Hi,

You should have XP SP3 premium.