Trouble with installation

[anuj_sharma]

Hey Guys,
I have a Vista Home Premium SP 1. I installed Visual Studio 2005 n it was working fine until today. When i tried to open VS 2005 it gave the following dialog box:
"One or more components missing. Please reinstall the application"
First of all i repaired the VS but that didn't help. I also uninstalled and installed it again, That also didn't help.
Please suggest.

[sknake]

Have you tried to reinstall VS? Also look around in your windows event log or other places for more descriptive errors than the one you provided.

[anuj_sharma]

I've tried reinstalling it but it won't work. It's giving the same error.
I think there's a compatibility issue bcos the first time i installed VS it did give a compatability error but i installed it anyway and it was working fine.

[nverma]

try installing windowinstaller 3.0,that may solve your problem

[nverma]

or windowinstaller 3.0.1

[Ramesh S]

Try to run VS 2005 using an account with Administrator Privileges in Vista.

Also install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 which may address the problem.

[anuj_sharma]

I am installing it using administrator privileges. How do you find out whether ure installing VS SP1 or not???

[Ramesh S]

After installation using an administrator account, you need to run the Visual Studio using an administrator account atleast once. So that some of plug-ins associated with VS will be enabled.

Also you can see if the SP1 is installed in your VS, by clicking Help->About menu.

[anuj_sharma]

I've installed VS 2008 on my machine now but when i open my web site i cannot go to the design part but can view the source and code behind.