Unable to find required file 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll' - VS2005-B2

I thought I had managed to install Beta correctly from the DVD, but when I go to create an empty VB project I get the following error:

"Project "Project1" could not be opened because the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 compiler could not be created. Unable to find required file "Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll'.

I am able to create a web project, but not compile it ('compiler initializatin failed unexpectedly: Unspecified error').

Tried uninstall / reinstall / repair / etc. Installed just the VB.NET portion and also tried a complete install. I even downloaded and installed the express edition, but now I just have two versions I can't use. Everytime I get the same results. The only Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll file I see on my system is part of the compact framework (v1.0) that was install in the VS8 directory. I don't see the file on the DVD either, although I'm not that surprised with that.

I am able to create a C# windows project...although this isn't exactly how I wanted to learn the language.

I haven't found any relevant posts or websites that talk about this error, any ideas

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Unable to find required file 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll' - VS2005-B2

pkasanda
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually managed to get it to work this morning by loading VS, uninstalling v2 of the framework, then manually installing the same version dotnetfx and SDK framework executables I downloaded from MSDN.

For some reason I was missing a lot of files from the windows\...\v2.0... framework directory, even after completely (as far as I could tell) uninstalling it.
Keith Mange

Try copying the layout from the DVD to your hard drive and then run setup.exe from there.
Unable to find required file 'Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll' - VS2005-B2

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