> 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


If this is still a problem...


I've had this annoying problem on several occassions...

If you goto the online MSDN knowledge based and search for article Q199272
it might help your problem.

(Apparently the user defineable views files created/maintained through 
interdev can get messed up. If you delete these and restart, then 
everything might return to normal ... i.e. VJ++ will start)

delete the following files (all instances of them to be on the safe side)

views.prf
cmdui.prf
toolbox.tbd
objbrow.dat

worked for me (now I will return to reinstalling Visual Studio ... which I 
never needed to uninstall in the first place! :-( )

Hope this works for you

Martin Barber