Why is the J# redistributable package 1.1 mandatory when installing Visual Studio .NET 2003?

re: Why is the J# redistributable package 1.1 mandatory when installing Visual Studio .NET 2003?

Nicholas Allen — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:31:00 GMT

I'd recommend some caution before doing this. I tried uninstalling the J# redist a few months ago from VS 2003. After doing that, VS refused to start up again until I did a repair (which just put the redist back).

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Setup's WebLog — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:39:00 GMT

re: Why is the J# redistributable package 1.1 mandatory when installing Visual Studio .NET 2003?

Don — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:41:00 GMT

By an amazing coincidence, I have a VS2003 installer running on my desktop as your posting went up on blogs.msdn.com.

The coincidence gets even weirder because the installation is hanging at the end of installing the Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package. Progress bar has been at 100% for about 5 minutes.

Any hints beyond the NO_BSLN_CHECK? I initially tried to do the installation via remotedesktop, which worked fine for the first couple prereqs but caused an error with Visual J#. Now every time I try to run the install it hangs at the end of the Visual J# installation.

-Don

re: Why is the J# redistributable package 1.1 mandatory when installing Visual Studio .NET 2003?

Aaron Stebner — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:02:00 GMT

If you can go to %temp% on your machine and find the file named jsredistmsi.log, then zip it and email to me at aaronste@microsoft.com I will take a look and see what I can figure out. Sorry you are having trouble getting VS installed :-(

re: Why is the J# redistributable package 1.1 mandatory when installing Visual Studio .NET 2003?

Aaron Stebner — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:03:00 GMT

Also - to respond to the first comment, that is something I haven't seen before. I know that if you uninstall the .NET Framework redist the Visual Studio IDE will fail to launch, but I haven't heard of that yet with the J# redist package.

Success at last

Don — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:37:00 GMT

Why wouldn't VS2003.NET install for me? At long last, as a result of some great detective work on Aaron's part, we have the answer.

Somehow, I ended up with a bad firewall configuration that was preventing the Microsoft Management Console from communicating with IIS (I'd noticed that I couldn't configure IIS this morning, but had put the issue on the "deal with it later" stack).

Aaron discovered that the J# redist install was hanging in a recursive function that was trying to communicate with IIS, which led me to dive into why mmc.exe wasn't opening. Once I blew away an assortment of application-specific firewall settings in Norton Internet Security (more on a hunch than based on any sound leads), all of a sudden J# was installing properly.

I'm happy to report that VS2003.NET is now busily installing itself on my machine. I doubt if anyone else will ever be faced with this particular nightmare, but just in case they do - the solution is "on the web, just google for it" :)

-Don

re: Why is the J# redistributable package 1.1 mandatory when installing Visual Studio .NET 2003?

Aaron Stebner — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:35:00 GMT

Quick update - last night I installed a daily beta2 build of Visual Studio 2005 and I am happy to report that when I unchecked Visual J# and Visual Web Developer that I was not required to install the J# redistributable. So the issue described in this blog item will be a thing of the past in the near future!

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Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 00:49:39 GMT

Update about J# redistributable package installation in VS 2005 setup

Aaron Stebner's WebLog — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 02:53:29 GMT

Now that Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 has been released, I have gotten a handful of questions about my blog...

Why am I still having this problem in VS 2005?

Thomas McLeod — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:03:15 GMT

Even when I uncheck J#, the J# 2.0 redistributable is still installed with VS 2005 Pro. Moreover, the package has now grown from around 14 MB to over 100 MB. Why are we forced to install this?

When I uninstall the redistributable pack separately from add/remove programs, VS 2005 locks up and needs to be killed from task manager. This is unbelievable.

re: Why is the J# redistributable package 1.1 mandatory when installing Visual Studio .NET 2003?

astebner — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:19:29 GMT

Hi Thomas - I posted a couple of follow-up items about the J# redist package and VS 2005 setup that help explain why you may still see it installed if you uncheck J# in the VS 2005 Pro setup UI:

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/04/28/413286.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/11/22/496080.aspx

Most likely, you still have Visual Web Developer checked for installation, and that is pulling in the J# redist.

I'm a little concerned about your statement about the size of this package though. I looked at the compressed J# redist package, and it is 3.7 megabytes, and I don't have exact data but I believe that the footprint when you install it should be less than 20 megabytes. If you are seeing differently I would like to know more about where you are getting that data.

Why am I still having this problem in VS 2005?

Thomas McLeod — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:31:44 GMT

Aaron,

Thanks for explaining the situation with the J# redistributable and VS 2005. However, this information should be in the readme file. With J# language unchecked, it appears as if the J# redistributable installation is an error, bug or some other kind anomaly.

I said over 100 MB because Add/Remove Programs lists the size of the J# 2.0 Redistributable as 141 MB.

re: Why is the J# redistributable package 1.1 mandatory when installing Visual Studio .NET 2003?

astebner — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:49:19 GMT

Hi Thomas - I am not sure why this scenario was not described in the readme, but I would guess that the team decided that it would not affect enough scenarios to warrant that much of a write-up.

The size listed in Add/Remove Programs is not a reliable indicator of the installed size of a program on your computer. If you are interested, Raymond Chen wrote about this topic in his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/09/178342.aspx.

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Osama Abbas — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:39:07 GMT

Ever since I started using VS 2003, one thing that always ticked me off was why the J# redistributable

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