Why don't you just provide a monolithic download setup file that can later install off-line. The C# Express just hungs up with 0 KB download in my dial-up connection. Correct that: after waiting 15 minutes, it aborts and then shows me this "Error occured during setup screen".

Please make it downloadable!

Many countries - eg. Australia - pay by the megabyte for downloads. We can't use a product that needs to download during install.

Just give as a http / ftp link with resume working. We can take it from there.

Why are you spending all this effort on a system that prevents people from using your program?

I had a ping running in the background continuously and it didn't drop a single packet. (After the first time anyway - I was pinging my server in Texas.)

I also had music streaming, and another download in IE going.

Neither stopped or failed.

I also noticed the transfer rate on the download seemed extremely poor. What should have downloaded in 15 minutes took around an hour.

It would also have been nice if it stored where it got to rather than needing to start over, start over, start over, start over...

Fourth attempt worked though!

I run on my system as a Restricted User and use RunAs to install software as an administrator. I tried to use RunAs to to install the C# Express SKU and it crashed. When I logged on as Administrator, it worked.

I guess you need to add that scenario to your test suite as more and more people these days are advocating running as non-Admin.

http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/

I see the folowing error (i send the report too btw) :


EventType : visualstudio8setup
P1 : visual web developer 2005 express edition beta - english
P2 : 8.0.40607.16_beta1_x86_ixp P3 : gen P4 : inst P5 : f
P6 : dlmgr_bitserror
P7 : cdownloadmanager__cdownloadmanager() _ cocreateinstance() failed to create a backgroundcopymanager.
P8 : 0 P9 : -2146959355 P10 : -



Not a single bit is downloaded.

When I go to the serverices list and start the BITS service manualy it gives me an error : it can't start.

Maybe its just my machine.
I did the install on a virtual pc and it worked ok.

The following document helped me to isolate the problem :

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/readme/

I noticed the installer uses basic HTTP to get the file in something like 3k chunks. With this you spend almost as much time working with HTTP as downloading the file. This is why someone is complaining about a 15min download taking an hour.

I'm sure this will get me in trouble but anyone that wants a direct download link for Visual C# can go to http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/c/7/8c784f26-8e95-43b9-90b9-56b511220dfb/vcssetup.exe and get it. I wish you could have given that to us instead of making me packet sniff. ;)

I tried a number of times the installation of Visual C# 2005 Express Product. I wonder why the name EXPRESS given it is really very SLOW. The download progressbar did not budge from its place and it continously shows me the 0 bytes on screen. After a long time it gives me an error. However I have captured the error and the error was something like :

Error Signature

EventType : visualstudio8setup
P1 : visual c# 2005 express edition beta - english
P2 : 8.0.40607.16_beta1_x86_ixp P3 : gen P4 : inst P5 : f
P6 : dlmgr_bitserror
P7 : cdownloadjob__getstate() _ bits job in bg_job_state_error state. P8 : 5
P9 : -2147012894 P10 : the operation timed out

Please help me to intall this EXPRESS setup in an express way.

Thank you.

Hi Travis,

I am really very thankful to you for the direct link you have provided. Can you give the direct link for Web Development Project also.
I will be happy to hear from you.

Regards,
-Sameer

I was experiencing the same problem - "The download progressbar did not budge from its place and it continously shows me the 0 bytes on screen." Finally, it just died. Over and over. After a few DAYS (ugh!!!) of investigation, I found that it was the fault of my IPCop firewall. Specifically, it was the transparent proxy server that was mucking things up. Disabled this feature, and viola! She works! Hope this helps any poor soul out there with the same or similar problems. Now, off to C# 2005 land....

The procedure for installation of VWD is bizarre. The installer kept crashing right at the final stage. So, I reformatted my dev machine, installed SP1 for XP, and installed ASP.NET v2. These are the steps I followed:

1. Clicked on link on www.asp.net and downloaded some kind of installer (2.5mb).
2. Ran the installer which then downloaded some other files (45mb).
3. I got a message that VWD had been installed. But it hadn't. I looked in the folder:

~/visual studio 8/visual web developer 2005 express edition beta - english/

and there was a Windows Installer Package
called VNSSetup. Double-clicking on this does nothing. I seem to missing
something in the logic of the installation, but can't figure out what it is.

The error we are receiving is the message "The following component failed to download:"

When we click on the information link embedded in the text next to the checkbox "Yes, send information about my setup experience to Microsoft" we are presented the file uxeventlog.txt in Notepad whose last line reads "HTTP_Filever_Fail: 0x2b727d0, 0x946, [0-0-0:0.0.0],[0-0-0:0.0.0]"

Any ideas?

Regards, Marty

I am experiencing the same problem
cdownloadjob__getstate() _ bits job in bg_job_state_error state. P8 : 5
P9 : -2145844841 P10 : proxy authentication is required.

I have downloaded the exe on my local machine. I am not sure how to correct the problem for the proxy authentication. Any help will be great.

Regards, Sk

What kind of proxy are you using?

Also you can order a CD or get the manual steps up on http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/default.aspx

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