I HATE MICROSOFT!! (Part 4)
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My PC died, and while it was being repaired, I worked on my laptop using Visual Studio 2005. When I got it back I put the current source on it and tried to Rebuild Solution. It didn't work. The compiler complained about mismatched DLL versions (both computers had Visual Studio 2005) and gave other cryptic error messages. This was correct code that had worked perfectly on the laptop. The help for one of the cryptic error messages told me I had a corrupt .idp file (as I recall). There was no such file in the project. It also suggested bad .pdb files (which also weren't there). I decided to reinstall Visual Studio. Installing MSDN, there were complaints of about two dozen "missing" files, but it eventually completed. Installing Visual Studio, I selected the Repair/Reinstall option and it immediately asked me to "Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU disk 1 now." The default path it gave was d:\vs. (I was installing from a CD on e:.) I changed the path to e: and pressed OK. The next dialog box said "The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available." and repeated the previous message. WTF? This makes no sense. Repeated attempts also failed with even more cryptic messages. I'm unable to use Visual Studio 2005 to compile a correct programs, nor reinstall it to fix the problem. This, and many other problems with Microsoft software, lead me to suspect Vista is merely a symptom of a deeper problem at Microsoft. They're losing whatever ability they once had to produce usable software.
Hi there. Maybe some people hate Microsoft but I believe Microsoft make easy working computers and change our worlds . Don't think it Alan ?
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I also melted at the sight of this. :)
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
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Hi there. Maybe some people hate Microsoft but I believe Microsoft make easy working computers and change our worlds . Don't think it Alan ?
Dry your eyes. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
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My PC died, and while it was being repaired, I worked on my laptop using Visual Studio 2005. When I got it back I put the current source on it and tried to Rebuild Solution. It didn't work. The compiler complained about mismatched DLL versions (both computers had Visual Studio 2005) and gave other cryptic error messages. This was correct code that had worked perfectly on the laptop. The help for one of the cryptic error messages told me I had a corrupt .idp file (as I recall). There was no such file in the project. It also suggested bad .pdb files (which also weren't there). I decided to reinstall Visual Studio. Installing MSDN, there were complaints of about two dozen "missing" files, but it eventually completed. Installing Visual Studio, I selected the Repair/Reinstall option and it immediately asked me to "Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU disk 1 now." The default path it gave was d:\vs. (I was installing from a CD on e:.) I changed the path to e: and pressed OK. The next dialog box said "The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available." and repeated the previous message. WTF? This makes no sense. Repeated attempts also failed with even more cryptic messages. I'm unable to use Visual Studio 2005 to compile a correct programs, nor reinstall it to fix the problem. This, and many other problems with Microsoft software, lead me to suspect Vista is merely a symptom of a deeper problem at Microsoft. They're losing whatever ability they once had to produce usable software.
I hate Microsoft for the simple reason than that their Visual Studio 2008 runtime package installers leaves all sorts of crap behind. And I don't think the MFC DLL is big enough (sarcasm smiley.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
modified on Friday, August 15, 2008 6:02 PM
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Hi there. Maybe some people hate Microsoft but I believe Microsoft make easy working computers and change our worlds . Don't think it Alan ?
Here, use my shoulder...
printf("Error: No keyboard found!"); printf("Press any key to continue");
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Dry your eyes. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
Deyan Georgiev wrote:
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
Anyone else not see the logic int his?
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Dry your eyes. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
:-O :rolleyes:
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Here, use my shoulder...
printf("Error: No keyboard found!"); printf("Press any key to continue");
;P
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Did you cleaned the files in the project debug/release directories?
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
Yes. It didn't have any effect. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and still get: "fatal error C1902: Program database manager mismatch; please check your installation". The help for this error says: "A program database file (.pdb) was created using a newer version of mspdb80.dll than the one found while compiling."
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My PC died, and while it was being repaired, I worked on my laptop using Visual Studio 2005. When I got it back I put the current source on it and tried to Rebuild Solution. It didn't work. The compiler complained about mismatched DLL versions (both computers had Visual Studio 2005) and gave other cryptic error messages. This was correct code that had worked perfectly on the laptop. The help for one of the cryptic error messages told me I had a corrupt .idp file (as I recall). There was no such file in the project. It also suggested bad .pdb files (which also weren't there). I decided to reinstall Visual Studio. Installing MSDN, there were complaints of about two dozen "missing" files, but it eventually completed. Installing Visual Studio, I selected the Repair/Reinstall option and it immediately asked me to "Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU disk 1 now." The default path it gave was d:\vs. (I was installing from a CD on e:.) I changed the path to e: and pressed OK. The next dialog box said "The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available." and repeated the previous message. WTF? This makes no sense. Repeated attempts also failed with even more cryptic messages. I'm unable to use Visual Studio 2005 to compile a correct programs, nor reinstall it to fix the problem. This, and many other problems with Microsoft software, lead me to suspect Vista is merely a symptom of a deeper problem at Microsoft. They're losing whatever ability they once had to produce usable software.
Alan Balkany wrote:
When I got it back I put the current source
Alan Balkany wrote:
The compiler complained about mismatched DLL versions
Sounds like you copied more than source! Marc
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My PC died, and while it was being repaired, I worked on my laptop using Visual Studio 2005. When I got it back I put the current source on it and tried to Rebuild Solution. It didn't work. The compiler complained about mismatched DLL versions (both computers had Visual Studio 2005) and gave other cryptic error messages. This was correct code that had worked perfectly on the laptop. The help for one of the cryptic error messages told me I had a corrupt .idp file (as I recall). There was no such file in the project. It also suggested bad .pdb files (which also weren't there). I decided to reinstall Visual Studio. Installing MSDN, there were complaints of about two dozen "missing" files, but it eventually completed. Installing Visual Studio, I selected the Repair/Reinstall option and it immediately asked me to "Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU disk 1 now." The default path it gave was d:\vs. (I was installing from a CD on e:.) I changed the path to e: and pressed OK. The next dialog box said "The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available." and repeated the previous message. WTF? This makes no sense. Repeated attempts also failed with even more cryptic messages. I'm unable to use Visual Studio 2005 to compile a correct programs, nor reinstall it to fix the problem. This, and many other problems with Microsoft software, lead me to suspect Vista is merely a symptom of a deeper problem at Microsoft. They're losing whatever ability they once had to produce usable software.
did you consider that when you PC died, it corrupted some of the hard drive files? Did you run a chkdsk? Did you try searching the directory for any hidden or read-only files? If you used a CD to copy the files from the laptop to the PC, the files may have the read only attribute set.
Steve
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did you consider that when you PC died, it corrupted some of the hard drive files? Did you run a chkdsk? Did you try searching the directory for any hidden or read-only files? If you used a CD to copy the files from the laptop to the PC, the files may have the read only attribute set.
Steve
Thanks for the suggestions! I'll check into this.