[2008] Download Visual Studio ISO

[mikelynch]

Dear folks, I downloded The ISO burnt a disk and had everything working, C#, VB and asp. I dont know what my computer has done but now when I try to start and of the languages I am getting an error message that tells me something cannot be found and I need to reinstall the Visual Studio%$#@

So I put the iso cd in and boot to the cd but its not taking anynotice of the CD and boots straight into windows. What am I doing wrong
?

thanks anyone,

Mike.

[jmcilhinney]

The VS Express ISO is not bootable. It runs an installer in Windows just like any other software installer. Either put the disk in the drive while Windows is running and let it autorun or else just go to Windows Explorer and either autoplay it or run the setup directly.

[mikelynch]

Thanks, I forgot :-)

[mikelynch]

I tried to auto run the iso, it tells me I need dvd power play or some program like that to recognise the iso ??????????
I am confused. Do I need a special program to recognise the iso ?
I have deleted a lot of apps and maybe I deleted one that was needed for this to install ?/??
Not having much fun here, any more tips please !

[masfenix]

ISO is a format that needs to be "mounted". You can use nero or other burning software and burn the .iso on to disk. Note that thiss will not burn ONE ISO FILE, but rather "un pack" it, like a zip file and burn all the contents.

There are tools now (google: magic iso) that will do a "virtual" mount. It will basically create a virtual cd rom, and unpack the iso contents in there. Then yuo just go to my computer and you'll see the virtual cd drive there .double click and install

[jmcilhinney]

You already said that you burnt a disk:

I downloded The ISO burnt a disk and had everything working, C#, VB and asp.

I already told you to use that disk:

Either put the disk in the drive while Windows is running and let it autorun or else just go to Windows Explorer and either autoplay it or run the setup directly.

I didn't say anything about running the ISO directly.

If you do want to mount an ISO as a virtual drive, I'm a big fan of Virtual CloneDrive from Slysoft.

[mikelynch]

I tried using Virtual CloneDrive , but it would not run. Had to end task everytime. Ive followed youyr directions and all I can say is my pc is behac=ving very strangly, so im reinstalling XP and hopefully that will fix it.
Thanks again for your post to me.

[jmcilhinney]

Not to say that others will always have no issues but I've run VCD on numerous installations of XP and also on both Vista x86 and Vista x64 without ever having a problem.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

I use PowerISO, very nice. And why not simply download it and burn it again?

[mendhak]

You've probably written the ISO to disk as a data file in which case you've wasted the DVD. If you had properly burned the ISO image on, then you'd get an autorun for the VS installer startup.

However, all is not lost... download Daemon Tools which lets you mount an ISO image as a virtualized DVD which you can then use to install from.

http://www.disc-tools.com/download/daemon

[JuggaloBrotha]

You've probably written the ISO to disk as a data file in which case you've wasted the DVD. If you had properly burned the ISO image on, then you'd get an autorun for the VS installer startup.

However, all is not lost... download Daemon Tools which lets you mount an ISO image as a virtualized DVD which you can then use to install from.

http://www.disc-tools.com/download/daemon

I'm a huge fan of daemon tools.

[mikelynch]

Thakks, what i did in thwe end was install XP BORG and the iso vis studio is all installled and working fine. Plus I got photoshop CS and a dozen other programs with it. :-) Iwould like to dual boot into UBUNTU but was told it will not likly work with my version of XP ?
Thanks everyone foor your asdvise

[jmcilhinney]

Thakks, what i did in thwe end was install XP BORG and the iso vis studio is all installled and working fine. Plus I got photoshop CS and a dozen other programs with it. :-)

Gee, I'm sure that's legal.