Tips : Probems in VS 2003 and VS 2005

Here is the good weblog site for Visual Studio 2005 setup issues and workarounds.

Quan To's Visual Studio 2005 Setup blog

Error 1904 when installing the 1.0 Framework

A customer ran into the following error dialog when installing the 1.0 Framework:
Error 1904 Module C:\Windows\System32\mscoree.dll failed to register.
HRESULT -2146232576. Contact your support personal.
The customer had the 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 Framework installed, then uninstalled, then reinstalled and eventually got themselves into a weird dirty state.
They finally ran the clean up tool but setup failed when they tried installing the 1.0 framework.
After debugging their machine, it turned out the following registry key was leaked:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\policy\v2.0
I asked the customer to delete that key and the 1.0 framework then installed successfully.

Can't move cursor in VS2005 Text Editor
A customer ran into this issue where they can't move the cursor in the text editor and other things didn't work such as control-Z and import/export settings.
The workaround is:
1)Shutdown Visual Studio
2)Click Start -> Run
3)Type in "devenv.exe /resetuserdata"
4)Open Task Manager and wait for devenv.exe to finish running
5)Restart VS
Thanks goes to James Lau for providing the workaround for this.