Some serious installation blues,
Greatly fired up by the Wrox book 'Beginning Web Development with Visual
Interdev 6' (A. Mumford) I started to install Visual Studio 6.0
Enterprise Edition. The only bit of worry I got during the installation
was the message stating that a file on my system was of in another
language than the files being installed, and if it should be overwritten.
I chose yes, and gave it a go. During the further installation, there were
no problems.
Also when I activated Visal Interdev, everything seemed fine. But during
the creation of web project, the program failed connecting to my local
(pws) server. Later on in the book I read the program not being able to
recognize the localhost name for the local server, is a common problem. A
that time though, I thought is was due to the fact that my Office version
was in another language (dutch) than the language of my VS 6.0 version. So
I uninstalled everything including the windows nt 4.0 option pack, and
reinstalled everything, this time with an english version of MS Office
2000 (premium). But now things only got worse. When I tried to activate
Visual Interdev, I got the message: "cannot load development environment
dll". After that, I got the Visual Interdev interface for a fraction of a
second, and then it disappeared.
After searching in the knowledge base of Microsoft, I found this error
message. Their remedy is to reinstall the msenv.dll. So I did this using
the regsvr32 keyword, and I got the message that the dll was installed
succesfully.
But still Visual Interdev doesn't start up, while other development
environments like Visual Foxpro, or Visual C++ do start up without a
problem.
Does anyone has a clue what's going on.
Much thanks in advance,
Anthony Candaele