When trying to uninstall the orcas installation from march ctp I get the errormessage "The application data folder for visual studio could not be created".
What am I to do?
Thanks for your reply, Chrichton
Hello Chrichton. I would like to try and setup a repro of the problem if possible. Can you please provide information including, what OS & version number you are using, what sku of VS (express, pro, etc), what build of the SDK & WinFX are you using?
Thanks
Anthony
Hi Anthony,
I am using winxp professional service pack2 with all updates installed.
I am using VS prof. english.
WinFX march ctp of sdk and winfx
Best wishes from Chrichton
I got the same error with Visual Studio 2005 Std Ed:
The Application Data folder for Visual Studio could not be created. OK
Microsoft Visual Studio
Using Regmon (and FileMon from www.sysinternals.com), I saw the problem stemmed from the following registry key:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\AppData
Funnily enough, in another troublehshooting exercise I was testing the following vbs script:
Dim WshShell
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WSHShell.Popup("Delete value HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\AppData") WSHShell.RegDelete("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\AppData")
WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\AppData", "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data", "REG_SZ"
What happened is that I deleted the AppData "REG_EXPAND_SZ" registry key and recreated it as a "REG_SZ" key...
Once I corrected the RegKey to be expandable, Visual Studio opened OK.
Did the same as u mentioned but nothing / no good as the reg key still was fine? Tried another guys theory of doin this
"%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup in cmd prompt it ran the VS8 but than when closing it wouldnt open jus through start and program files etc.. any else got any ideas..?
Bassically all i am doing is copying a user profile to domain and i dont want to install the whole app over again i just want to be able to migrate profiles and click clikc done. if anyones information can come in handy that would be great (as i have alot of users to migrate and only 1 cd and that would take me about 10 weeks to install everything :P
Thanks
Tasker
