George,

Glad they finally got it figured out for you. I wonder what caused the errant registry key to begin with? Did they have an explanation for you at all?

~~Bonnie

>I called Microsoft and this was a new problem for them. After back and forth a few times and trying a few things they finally nailed it down to deleting the registration key 42F01ADA-4885-4C3E-9357-9E86138DDECF.
>
>I was surprised at how helpful they were, even talking with one of the support guys after hours at home.
>
>-- George
>
>>Guess I can't help you much George. I've installed VS.NET Professional (after uninstalling the Beta version) without a problem and I installed the whole thing, C# as well as VB and the .NET Framework. I don't know what installing VB.NET Standard only would do, as far as what it ends up installing.
>>
>>Sorry, maybe someone else can jump in with some suggestions ...
>>
>>~~Bonnie
>>
>>
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>>>Hi Bonnie.
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>>>I had VS.NET trial. I uninstalled it and installed VB.NET Standard. I accepted all the defaults, which does a full install.
>>>
>>>>George,
>>>>
>>>>Hmmm ... how did you do the install? Did you let it install everything or did you do a custom install and just install parts of .NET? If so, you probably missed something (what that could be, I don't know without more details from you).
>>>>
>>>>~~Bonnie
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I installed VB.NET on Win XP Professional and get this error when I try to start the IDE:
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>>>>>

MS Development Environment has not been installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the application.

>>>>>
>>>>>I re-installed, re-booted, but no change, any ideas?