I've recently downloaded the installer for Crystal Reports version for VS 2010. I'm able to install it on my PC no problem. But the area I need help in is installing it on a drive that isn't the C drive. I'm trying to install it on the PC's D drive so that it can be accessed from other computers. But when I run the instillation, it only allows it to be installed on the C drive. There is a browse button to chose a different path. But the button is not enabled, there for giving me no choice. Does anyone know how i could enable the browse button, or if there is a better download that gives me the path choice. I downloaded the installer from http://www.businessobjects.com/jump/xi/crvs2010/us2_default.asp
Crystal Reports will need to be installed on each PC anyway (I believe it registers some COM components, registry, etc.) so even if you could change the installation path, it wouldn't save you any time/diskspace/etc.
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I use a machine where I don't have administrator rights. I've been able to run programs without admin rights by extracting the program's .zip file to a directory I have created on my desktop. However, I can't find such a .zip file for Visual Studio.
Is there a way to install Visual Studio Community Edition without administrator rights?
Practically no. Visual Studio (Express and above, excluding VS Code) consists of multiple components that must be installed as admin, and will be required for the app you're debugging to be available as system-wide component. It might be possible to use ThinApp or its equivalent, but ThinApp can't even work with VS 2010 and it was by far the best of its class.
A (resource intensive) alternative to get VS on any PC will be packaging a VM with VS installed, either creating one yourself or get a ready-made ones. VirtuaBox is available as portable fork if you can't even get Hyper-V tools installed. But this still require kernel drivers installation, which means at least one-time admin access. Depending on your internet connection & budget, it might be more practical to setup a VPS with VS installed, then remote there.
Basically, youre going to need to download an iso of windows, then download QEMU, and run it as invoker by doing that batch file thing (https://techcult.com/how-to-install-software-without-admin-rights/). Set it to anywhere, and then figure out how to boot it to QEMU cause I have absolutely no idea how (ive only done it with Kali Linux). and just install VC on there. Sorry about being so vague.
There is no way to install or use Visual Studio on Windows without admin rights. You can either use a different program to write your code in and then compile using a different compiler. Or use qemu (since it does not require admin rights) to run a windows virtual machine.
I'm trying to install WinDbg from this page, just under the Debugging Tools for Windows 10 (WinDbg) section. However, when I download the executable and run it, it tells me that
You must uninstall the Windows Software Development Kit - Windows 10.0.10586.15 before you can install the latest version of the kit.
I'm guessing this probably has to do with the fact that I already have VS 2015 (and the Windows 10 SDK) installed. However, when I go to the Developer Command Prompt and type in
> where windbg
it tells me that it can't find WinDbg. How, then, do I install it without doing anything drastic (like reinstalling Visual Studio)?
I just ran into this same problem (with a slightly newer version of the SDK) when setting up a VM with Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2015. Following the general rule (or at least, what used to be the general rule), I installed Visual Studio first before attempting to install the SDK.
Even though I picked all the options in the Visual Studio install, and I appear to have gotten large portions of the SDK, I didn't get the debugging tools or the application verifier, which I wanted. The "Debuggers" folder was empty. Yet when I tried to download and install the standalone Windows 10 SDK, I got the error message you quote, that I needed to uninstall the SDK before I can install the latest version.
Microsoft's site is absolutely no help. It gives no clues about the appropriate way to install the software. Harry Johnston's comment got me going in the right direction.
After installing Visual Studio 2015, you already have the Windows 10 SDK. You do not need to download it separately. To get the additional tools on Windows 10:
Open Settings → System → "Apps and features".
Scroll down to "Windows Software Development Kit".
(I had two versions of it installed. The top one was newer. I'd recommend that you proceed with the newer version for the following steps.)
Select it, and click "Modify". Then, because it's Windows 10 and everything is harder than it needs to be, click "Modify" again.
The installer will launch. Select the "Change" option, and click "Next".
Place a check next to the additional features/tools you want, click "Change" to start the process.
After waiting some time, it will have downloaded and installed the additional portions of the SDK. You should now be good to go!
(This does seem like a bug in my case. The two versions of the SDK (the one I have installed and the one whose installer I downloaded) are identical (both are for version 10.0.10586.212), so running the standalone installer should just launch the same setup tool that you are able to launch from Settings, enabling me to Change/Remove Features. Oh well, at least this works.)
I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2005 on a Windows 7 box but am repeatedly getting the same error. When I run the installer it starts to run then pops up with a message saying:
"A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup."
Various suggestions has said that maybe the install is corrupted so I downloaded a fresh copy of the ISO from MSDN today, same issue. Another suggestion is that installing from the ISO may be the issue so I extracted the contents of the ISO to a folder on my HDD, same issue. I have also tried running the files as administrator and in XP compatability mode, same issue.
Searching for this issue the most common responses I've found have been about installing SP1, however I cannot get the base product to install and therefore cannot apply SP1.
Does anyone have any further suggestions as to what I can do to fix this issue and get VS2005 installed? If anyone wants any log files of any variety I am happy to supply so long as you tell me where to look as I'm not sure.
As for why I am using VS2005 and not a newer product, it is required for the ongoing support and maintenance of some older applications we manage. These cannot be easily migrated to a newer version of Visual Studio without some considerable investment of time and that would probably be longer than the time it will take to develop newer, replacement applications (which is currently in progress). Until the new applications are available though we need to maintain an environment to use.
Did you try running setup.exe in compatibility mode with Windows XP? Some discussion here on how to do this.
Another alternative since you alluded to having an MSDN subscription. Download Windows XP and install it into a VM. (If HyperV isn't already in installed with your Win7, you can add it from Control Panel->Programs&Features->Turn Windows Features on/off). Then install VS2005 from there.
I just installed windows 8 and microsoft visual studio 2012. The problem comes when I try to run a program, it tells me:
the program can't start because glu32.dll is missing from your computer. try reinstalling the program to fix this problem
But I have already placed the glu32.dll in the locations that it should.
The graphics drivers shipping with Windows 8 lack proper OpenGL support. You must download the drivers from your GPU vendors website directly and install those.
Also when manually adding missing DLLs you should not add them to system directories, but into right into the directory of the application's .exe files.
I wrote a large and complex C application on Windows XP. Now I am recompiling on a 64bit Windows 7 machine. When I run certain executables I get this error:
The program cannot start because MSVCP71.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix the problem.
Apparently this is a .dll that used to come with windows but now does not (see especially this MSDN forum and this previous stack overflow question.)
Supposedly I should generate this DLL from Microsoft Visual C++ and "extract the DLLs from the merge modules." However, I am using gcc, mingw and make and I would prefer to avoid going to Visual Studio.
There are lots of copies of this dll available to download from unverified sources on the internet, but none directly downloadable from Microsoft. What should I do? Do I need to install Microsoft Visual C++? Is there any way to do this with gcc and mingw?
Update: #Sheng Jiang 蒋晟's hint was crucial. What I hadn't realized was that my dependency on MSVCP71.dll only arises out of linking to a third party DLL. I was able to identify the third party DLL and find a copy of MSVCP71.dll running on another system with that DLL in place. Now I can include the MSVCP711.dll along with the third party DLL and everything runs smoothly.
There is no downloadable redistributable released for this file. Only merge modules are provided on the CDs. Programmers are expected to embed those merge modules into their setup programs, or extract the files into their program's install folder. This file is not intended for System32 as that is a violation of Windows Logo requirement.
Since you are not using the Visual C++ tool chain, the MS-STL dependency comes with a third-party component whose author did not provide a proper setup program. Although you can get the dll from other products, however, you need a product that explicitly grant you the redistribute rights to be able to redistribute the file to your customers. Such redistribute rights come with Visual C++ 2003 and probably InstallShield X and other install package authoring software.
For evaluate proposes you can obtain the file for the component from other products that have a dependency on the file, such as SQL Server 2005, the .Net 1.1 runtime or its SDK, Crystal Report 10 etc. Beware of version mismatch. If the component requires SP1 or later edition of MSVCP71.dll, it may not work with the RTM edition.
I dont have a link from Microsoft but you can download it from here (link fixed and now points to correct file).
Now move it to C:/Windows/SysWOW64 (64 Bit) or C:/Windows/System32 (32 Bit)
Here's another download available: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/fix-msvcp71-dll-and-msvcr71-dll-missing-error-in-windows-7/
Not sure if this will work, but maybe a reinstallation or update of MS VC++ Runtime solves that (Microsoft Download Center ).
MS Office, Oracle client, and sql developer all have msvcp71.dll. I found a copy already on my PC. No need to download from untrusted website.
It works if we copy the file msvcp71.dll from C:\ORACLE\product\10.2.0\Client_4\oui\lib\win32\msvcp71.dll and past the file in the folder C:\winnt\system32.