I installed the trial version of VS 2008 Team System. And it has the same problem on this machine.

Anyone have any idea about the problem? i really need to prove VS 2008 can be run on this machine...

Could Symantec antivirus/cient firewall cause the problem? It has NVidia Quadro NV 285 with newest driver. Some IT software may be installed. Google desktop. Office XP....

Hi Michael,

thank you for your attention.

No, markup is not colorized. CSS editing does not work. JS files the same issue.

JS are not colorised either.

I agree of course that setup is incorrect or incomplete.
Tried it as a regular user with Admin-rights. Tried it as Admin. Tried it with UAC turned off.
Just beatme what is blocking it.

I do have Office 2007 installed as well as MS Expression Web.

Thank you

 I installed VMWare on my machine. And VWD 2008 can run in VMWare. I found it has a process running mscorsvw.exe. However, this process is not running on the host. Can it cause the design view problem?

I have the same problem. I can't use the split and designer view. I also tried to reinstall it and still there's no luck. Anyone knows how to fix this?

Mikhail, 

I appear to be having the same problems.

Added an aspx file to project opens in source tab. Click on design sort of freezes. I can not switch back to source. However, I can just close the page and open it again (into source view). Also, I can not even click on the split view.

HTML pages have the same problem as aspx pages when switching to design or split view.

I was able to add JS and CSS files. The colors highlight fine and I also have object-context with the drop-down window. 

Here are a few things that I have done so far.

• Uninstalled Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component
• Installed Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component 12.0.4518.1066 (Product ID: 82503-694-0000007-62682)
• Located on VS2008ExpressENUX1397868.iso @ Z:\VWDExpress\WCU\WebDesignerCore\WebDesignerCore.EXE
• Setup environtment variable "PATH" to begin with "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD;"
• Click "Start"
• Right-Mouse-Click "My Computer"
• Click "Properties"
• Click "Advanced"
• Click "Environment Variables"
• Locate "System Variables"
• Select "PATH"
• Click "Edit"
• Type "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD;" at beginning
• Click "OK"
• Click "OK" (system does a brief pause)
• Click "OK"
• Verified version instaled on disk
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD
• FPACUTL.DLL 12.0.4518.1066
• FPCUTL.DLL 12.0.4518.1066
• FPEDITAX.DLL 12.0.4518.1066
• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD\1033
• FPEDSAT.DLL 12.0.4518.1014
• FPUTLSAT.DLL 12.0.4518.1014
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE11
• MSO.DLL 11.0.8172.0
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12 (Just in case?)
• MSO.DLL 12.0.6213.1000
• C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Office10 (Another just in case?)
• MSO.DLL - missing
•  c:\Windows\System32
• msxml2.dll 8.30.9529.0
• msxml3.dll 8.90.1101.0
• msxml4.dll 4.20.9848.0
• msxml5.dll 5.20.1081.0 (was missing - was able to copy from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE11)
• msxml6.dll 6.10.1200.0

I also tried other steps you have suggested. I created a stylesheet, dragged it into the head of my aspx page, added a class, saved and then tried to type out div class="... but nothing appeared in intellisense for the class name.

When I edit the css file, I do see a CSS outline updating as I add more classes.

I have Microsoft Office 2003 installed. However, when ever I try and open an excel, word, visio, or power point document, I am presented with the message - "Microsoft Office [application name] has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application." The network admin hasn't been helpful to me in this scenario, so I installed the microsoft word, excel, and power point viewers. I use google docs to compose new documents and have been debating if I should just install OpenOffice.org. Does Microsoft Office have an effect on this issue with VWD? Would it help if I just uninstalled Microsoft Office completely?

hi lewis, what I did is I uninstall visual web developer and delete vwd  folder in C: program files and install it again. It seems like Microsoft didn't inlclude this to their latest patch. So far I can't find any other  way to solve this unless you uninstall it and delete it's folder in drive C.

This does not help.

• Uninstalled VWD from add/remove programs
• Deleted C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools folder.
• I installed VWD from the DVD
• web designer tools folder did not exist afterwards.
• Ran Z:\VWDExpress\WCU\WebDesignerCore\WebDesignerCore.exe
• Confirmed folder now exists for Web Designer Tools
• Ran VWD
• Open aspx file
• Click "Design" tab
• Program never does anything ...

Do you have any other suggestions?

I had the same issue ... finally got to the bottom of it:

Within my environment path variable I had MS office path defined as follows:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10

This contains an old version of fpcutl.dll, which VWD ends up using.

To solve the problem add C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD to the start of your path variable.

Unfortunatly that doesn't work. That was one of the original things that I tried before I uninstalled and then reinstalled VWD. I'm looking now and my path reads as:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD;C:\Program Files\CA\Dcs\DMScripting\;C:\Program Files\CA\DCS\CAWIN\;C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRA~1\CA\ETRUST~1;c:\ut\gen;C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;C:\PROGRA~1\CA\SHARED~1\SCANEN~1;C:\SYSMGT\TNGSD\BIN;C:\SYSMGT\TNGAM\AGENTS 

waheed1:

I had the same issue ... finally got to the bottom of it:

Within my environment path variable I had MS office path defined as follows:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10

This contains an old version of fpcutl.dll, which VWD ends up using.

To solve the problem add C:\Program Files\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\VWD to the start of your path variable.

Yes, designer is Office 2007 component. However, it does not require Office 2007. Perhaps the message that Office 2003 is not installed for the current user is indication of the problem. Did you try uninstalling or at least repairing Office 2003 so its applications start normally? Versions of binaries seem to be OK.

 I ran the installer and tried the following:

• Add or Remove Features
• Left all options checkd
• Reinstall or Repair
• Ran Reinstall (and rebooted)
• Ran Repair

The only thing that I haven't tried yet is uninstalling. 

I don't know if this helps. I can close the pages if they are design mode. however, if I close VWD afterwards, it crashes with the following error signature.

AppName: vwdexpress.exe      AppVer: 9.0.21022.8     AppStamp:47316132
ModName: mfc80u.dll      ModVer: 8.0.50727.762      ModStamp:45713438
fDebug: 0       Offset: 000c33fc

Ok, I just uninstalled Microsoft Office Professional 2003 and I am still having this problem.

Did you ever solve the problem? I am having the same issue and nothing seems to work. I have even uninstalled VS2008 and still design view does not work.

 No. Even with MS Office removed, the product still does not work.