SA Developer .NET

Hey Guys,

After I had installed the full Visual Studio 2003, I see that the IDE was not installed, only the tools?

What gives?

Then I manually searched for the devenv.exe file and ran that. Now, When I try open a .vbproj file it gives me the following error:

The application for project x.vbproj  is not installed. Make sure the application for the project type (.vbproj) is installed

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I have also noticed that SQL SERVER 2005 has installed Visual Studio 2005

But I need VS 2003 to open these older VB projects.. Help PLease...

THanks 

Hi there,

Was SQL Server 2005 already installed before you tried to install VS 2003? Because you should rather install VS 2003 first, and then SQL 2005.

SQL installs a very basic version of VS2005 for BI purposes (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS), as it is the only way to develop these types of projects in SQL 2005. You can't open C# Proj or VB Proj files with it, (you can't even open DB projects for some unknown/insane (take your pick ) reason). You'll need to install the full version of VS 2005 to get this functionality.

I think you'll have to format the machine and then install VS2003 first, and then SQL 2005. When I did BI contracting work, we used SSRS 2000 and 2005. When we set up the dev machines we installed everything in this order: VS2003, SQL 2000, SQL Reporting Services 2000, Service Packs, SQL2005, Service Packs, VS 2005 (if needed.). Otherwise, we couldn't do anything.

To cut a long story short, I think the existing VS2005 used by SQL, stuffed up the installation somehow of VS2003. The only solution I know of is to format the machine and try again by installing everything in the correct order.