To Hell in a Handbasket » Visual Studio http://ericsilva.org General Views, Opinions, and Observations in the World Around Me by Eric Silva Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:36:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Converting a Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project to a Visual Studio 2008 Web Application Project http://ericsilva.org/2009/12/06/converting-a-visual-studio-2005-web-application-project-to-a-visual-studio-2008-web-application-project/ http://ericsilva.org/2009/12/06/converting-a-visual-studio-2005-web-application-project-to-a-visual-studio-2008-web-application-project/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:24:00 +0000 Eric Silva http://ericsilva.org/2009/12/06/converting-a-visual-studio-2005-web-application-project-to-a-visual-studio-2008-web-application-project/ For anyone looking to upgrade their VS 2005 Web Application project to VS 2008, I found good walkthrough provided by Microsoft here.

]]> http://ericsilva.org/2009/12/06/converting-a-visual-studio-2005-web-application-project-to-a-visual-studio-2008-web-application-project/feed/ 0 Visual Studio 2008 and Visio for Enterprise Architects http://ericsilva.org/2009/12/03/visual-studio-2008-and-visio-for-enterprise-architects/ http://ericsilva.org/2009/12/03/visual-studio-2008-and-visio-for-enterprise-architects/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:34:18 +0000 Eric Silva http://ericsilva.org/2009/12/03/visual-studio-2008-and-visio-for-enterprise-architects/ I have started working on a new project in .NET and the Problem Domain (PD) was modeled in Visio UML.  Fantastic.  Now I wanted to forward engineer the UML into C# classes to begin development, but wait, I can’t.  I only have Visio 2007 Professional, and the forward engineering features are only available in the Visio for Enterprise Architects version.  Okay, not a problem, I’ll go download it from MSDN.

After starting the installation, I got an error message, “You must first install one of the qualified Visual Studio editions”.  What the hell?  Visual Studio 2008 isn’t good enough?  I sure as hell don’t want to install another, older version Visual Studio just so I can install Visio for EA.

After poking around, I came across this registry trick.  Visio for Enterprise Architects is looking for the existence of the following key:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Setup\VS\VSTD\

Within this key should be the String value “ProductDir”.  The text value for ProductDir can be anything other than a null value.

Once you add this key to your registry, the Visio for Enterprise Architects installer will work as hoped.

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