Visual Studio fails on Vista Ultimate

I get the same problem while trying to instal the Visual Studio proffesional
editon ( trial 90 days ) like most people do.It fails always on the same
point:
"Web authoring component"
This problem has many discussions on forums on the web. Many solutions
suggested that work for some but most people still are with the same problem.
I tried various intallations including the expess editions ( one by one )
the iso image ( using daemon and burn on disc ). I carried out tens of
propable solutions and nothing. Always the same at the same time. It is
getting very frustrating. How microsoft provides something as a final product
and it has some many bugs?????????Anybody knows of a solution please some
help would be greatly appreciated. By the way below I include my laptop specs
and the error log created. Thanks

Dell XPS1710
Intel centrino duo 2.0
2gb ram
100gb disk
Vista Ultimate

The Error log :

[02/21/08,01:52:07] setup.exe: [2] ISetupComponent:re/Post/Install()
failed in ISetupManager::InternalInstallManager() with HRESULT -2147023293.
[02/21/08,01:52:08] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio
Web Authoring Component is not installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:09] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio
2008 Professional Edition - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:09] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Compact
Framework 2.0 SP2 was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:09] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Compact
Framework 3.5 was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:10] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio
Tools for the Microsoft Office system (version 3.0 Runtime) was not attempted
to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:10] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio
2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Runtime was not attempted to
be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:10] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server
Compact 3.5 was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:11] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server
Compact 3.5 Design Tools was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:12] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server
Compact 3.5 For Devices was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:12] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK
R2 for Pocket PC was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:13] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK
R2 for Smartphone was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:13] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Device
Emulator version 3.0 was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:14] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server
2005 Express Edition (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:14] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Crystal Reports Basic
for Visual Studio 2008 was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:15] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK
for Visual Studio 2008 Tools (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:15] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK
for Visual Studio 2008 Headers and Libraries (x86) was not attempted to be
installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:16] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK
for Visual Studio 2008 Win32 Tools (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:16] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK
for Visual Studio 2008 .NET Framework Tools (x86) was not attempted to be
installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:17] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK
for Visual Studio 2008 SDK Reference Assemblies and IntelliSense (x86) was
not attempted to be installed.
[02/21/08,01:52:17] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL
Publishing Wizard was not attempted to be installed.

 

I'll assume you're doing the install using Run as Administrator.

I'll assume that Vista is not an OEM version that was pre installed by the
manufacture.

I'll assume you didn't upgrade to Vista over the top of XP.

 

Did You Install The IIS Option From The Vista DVD First?

I Installed Visual Studio And It Gave Me A Message But Didn't Fail. Just
FYI

 

I seem to recall uninstalling some Office web component to get my Visual
Studio to install.

 

I have Vista Ultimate on 4 machines and MS Visual Studio 2008 on three of
them. All installations went smoothly without a hitch.

On two of the machines I had Visual Studio 2005 installed prior to Visual
Studio 2005. They appear to be able to coexist. I use all of them heavily
and daily.

I got a disk form MS with autorun exec I think. I am an MSDN subscriber.
before getting the disk I tried to download VS2008 a few times and open the
iso image only to find that the files size was 2.3 Gb but the directory was
almost completely empty. With the exception of readme.txt file my browsers
(I used winimage.exe) saw nothing. I burned the file on DVD with the same
result. I posted on MSDN sites and nobody could give me any meaningful info
with the exception of one guy who said that he got his disk a week before
and I should expect mine as well. It did arrive a few days later.

If you have a MS DVD with VS2008 and Vista Ultimate then unless you do
something strange, there should be no problem. I also want to add that as
typical of me I do a few installs, some of them fail for reason of my doing
something stupid and I end up reinstalling it or even Vista and then doing a
new install of VS2008. Thus in fact I installed VS2008 perhaps 10 times
until finally I got a hang of it and had precisely what I wanted.

Now, I just checked MSDN site and it turns out people have found a solution
which appears to be a complete solution for this problem.

Check this thread:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=1&SiteID=1&PageID=1&PostID=2453549#2453549

It appears this guy uninstalled IIS temporarily and then reinstalled it. I
actually was about to suggest to you to do the opposite.

This appears to be another thread offering a different solution:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2606901&SiteID=1

Some more:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2821248&SiteID=1

How to Troubleshoot Setup for the Web AutoUpdate Feature
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172502

Appears to be another thread with a guy claiming that he solved the same
problem with a tip:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/sh...tid=2453549&sb=0&d=1&at=7&ft=11&tf=0&pageid=0

To get more just key at MSDN for "Web Authoring component." There are more
threads over there.

Good luck, Vista is there for you.

 

Thanks guys for the speedy replies. Most solutions suggested were already
tried some new that did not work. As for the Windows Vista version that 'Mr
Arnold' asks I have bought Windows Vista Ultimate OEM version. It did not
came from manufacturer. Did not upgrade to vista. It was clean install. Did
not have previous versions. What does it matter if it is OEM version?? The
IIS option someone mentioned; I do not recall such option.

Thanks again