Does anyone know how to get around the MDAC check in the Service Pack 5 setup of Visual Studio 6.0? For some reason it doesn't detect MDAC 2.5 or higher which it requires (even though Vista obviously has a later version - 6.0) and the setup will not continue from that point.
I've tried every registry key I could think of to trick it into thinking MDAC is installed.
Thanks
Ted.
Totally untrue - the support on Vista has been committed to by Microsoft until March of 2008
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788708.aspx
I know for a fact that it runs perfectly on Vista as I have run it successfully on many previous builds of Vista (as upgrades of an XP machine). I'm asking how I can get a clean build of Vista to allow me to install SP5.
Ted,
Did you get any more info about this ? I am running into the same issue. I am digging now but if you got a workaround from another source it would be appriciated.
Glen
Yes, I did - I even went so far as to file a Vista bug with the Microsoft Beta Client utility (you should do the same: get it at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=43655 )
See:
http://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=82726&SiteID=4
(note: you must be a member of the Vista Beta program to view the above bug)
The response that I got is that Microsoft "won't fix" it. You can vote on this suggestion if you disagree.
Based on this description:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/vistasupport.aspx
they should at least provide support for the IDE until at least March of 2008.
The workaround for now is to use another machine (an XP machine) to install the service pack, by using a mapped network share to your Vista drive (change some registry keys, there are several of them, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0 and 6.0\Setup\ (and all keys in subfolders) that are pointing to your own install on XP to the network drive) e.g. map a drive on your XP machine to your Vista machine (e.g. M: ) then change those registry keys to point to your M: copy of Visual Studio. Then install the service pack on your XP machine, and your Vista machine will get updated. Don't forget to change the registry keys back to C: and then reinstall under XP so your XP machine is not broken.
Here they are (each key is followed by the value name you need to change)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0]
InstallDir
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup]
VsCommonDir
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Developer Network Library - Visual Studio 6.0a]
ProductDir
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual Basic]
ProductDir
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual C++]
ProductDir
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual InterDev]
ProductDir
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe]
ProductDir
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\6.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual Studio]
ProductDir
You'll need a non-Vista machine and copy over or use the trick I mentioned, until someone can figure out what the SP5/SP6 setup process is using to determine whether MDAC is installed. I've tried using filemon and regmon utilities from www.sysinternals.com but have never been able to figure out what it's checking.
Can someone in Microsoft with access to the source code to SP5/SP6 setup tell me what specifically it's checking for (e.g. a specific file, version info, registry key etc) then at least we can put those things in place temporarily before installing.
how to make service pack 5 install on vista beta 2 without another pc!
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37 IsWin95 CustomAction "sp598ent.dll,CheckForMDAC"
guideX
PS> Please take note that I am the first living human to ever run visual studio 6 service pack 5 successfully from vista
GuideX,
You rock!!!!!!!!!!!!. How in the world did you figure that one out? My Goodness.
That worked like a charm. Amazing.
Thanks a million. Just made my day.
