I am sure you also have played with VSTS, but not sure if you are having problems with VSTS Dec 2004 Refresh bits up on MSDN. I am installing this natively (not on VMWare/VirtualPC, etc.) running Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with VS.NET 2003, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 (Beta 2), and usual suspects like Office 2003, etc. During the installation process when I get to installing Visual Studio (see screen shots below), aftre going about 60-70% of the way I get an error - “Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English – Error 1304.Error writing to file: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Windows.Forms.dll.  Verify that you have access to that directory.” Now everything seems to be ok to me, I am logged as God (Domain Admin) on the box and there is enough disk space as well, so not sure what is causing this.

Here are the screen shots:

When I look at the logs here is the error from there. You can download the complete installation log from here .

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\[01/07/05,08:41:31\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::SetMsiLogFileName(): Setting MSI Log Name to:C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Local Settings\\Temp\\VSMsiLog2838.txt  
\[01/07/05,08:41:31\] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty  
\[01/07/05,08:59:13\] vs70uimgr: Entering DisplayMessage() method.  
\[01/07/05,08:59:14\] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage\_START:Error 1304.Error writing to file: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Windows.Forms.dll.  Verify that you have access to that directory.  
\[01/07/05,09:04:00\] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage\_END:Error 1304.Error writing to file: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Windows.Forms.dll.  Verify that you have access to that directory.  
\[01/07/05,09:04:00\] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty  
\[01/07/05,09:04:00\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: \*\*\*ERRORLOG EVENT\*\*\* : ERROR:Error 1304.Error writing to file: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Windows.Forms.dll.  Verify that you have access to that directory.  
\[01/07/05,09:04:00\] vs70uimgr: Entering DisplayMessage() method.  
\[01/07/05,09:04:00\] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage\_START:The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2350. 
\[01/07/05,09:04:01\] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage\_END:The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2350. 
\[01/07/05,09:04:01\] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty  
\[01/07/05,09:04:01\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: \*\*\*ERRORLOG EVENT\*\*\* : ERROR:The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2350. 
\[01/07/05,09:04:02\] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty  
\[01/07/05,09:04:02\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: \*\*\*ERRORLOG EVENT\*\*\* : ACTION FAILURE:Action ended 09:04:02: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.See MSI log for details.  
\[01/07/05,09:09:26\] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty  
\[01/07/05,09:09:26\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: \*\*\*ERRORLOG EVENT\*\*\* : ACTION FAILURE:Action ended 09:09:26: INSTALL. Return value 3.See MSI log for details.  
\[01/07/05,09:09:36\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::Install(): Finished MSI Installation  
\[01/07/05,09:09:36\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: MsiInstallProduct return code: 1603. 
\[01/07/05,09:09:36\] InstallReturnValue: root\_comp, 0x643  
\[01/07/05,09:09:36\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::Install(): Setup Failed; MSIInstallProduct return value either ERROR\_INSTALL\_FAILURE or default.  
\[01/07/05,09:09:36\] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty  
\[01/07/05,09:09:36\] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty  
\[01/07/05,09:09:36\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::Install(): Calling LaunchWatson()...  
\[01/07/05,09:09:37\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::LaunchWatson() - Obtained CSetupWatson instance  
\[01/07/05,09:09:37\] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({B8A13F14-4BDE-4EC4-A53C-8E51FBB8261F})  
\[01/07/05,09:09:37\] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({4F8791EE-486F-44B5-952B-F28F9FD58BD0})  
\[01/07/05,09:09:37\] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({710A502B-4669-405C-A985-BA21545509BA})  
\[01/07/05,09:09:37\] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({710A502B-4669-405C-A985-BA21545509BA})  
\[01/07/05,09:09:37\] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({AA62DF98-3F2C-11D3-887B-00C04F8ECDD6})  
\[01/07/05,09:09:37\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::LaunchWatson() - Launching VS Watson  
\[01/07/05,09:10:34\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::LaunchWatson() - Completed VS Watson launching to create manifest: C:\\DOCUME~1\\ADMINI~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\vs\_setup.dll.txt  
\[01/07/05,09:10:34\] Setup.exe: GetGlobalCustomProperty({D530994B-CA3E-4CF3-AC2F-485962898182})  
\[01/07/05,09:10:34\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::LaunchWatson() - Cleaning up the VS Manifest; some other Manifest is ready to be used.  
\[01/07/05,09:10:39\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::Install(): Finished calling LaunchWatson()  
\[01/07/05,09:10:39\] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English: CRootComponent::Install(): Finished Brooklyn Component Installation  
\[01/07/05,09:10:39\] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty  
\[01/07/05,09:10:39\] setup.exe: \*\*\*ERRORLOG EVENT\*\*\* : ISetupComponent::Pre/Post/Install() failed in ISetupManager::InstallManagerHelper() with HRESULT -2147023293. 
\[01/07/05,09:10:39\] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty\[01/07/05,09:10:39\] setup.exe: \*\*\*ERRORLOG EVENT\*\*\* : Component error string not specified in ISetupManager::AddToActionResultCollection()

If you look at the event log (you can see the entries being written above) and essentially it shows the same information. Here are the two entries there:

First Entry:

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**Event Type: Error  
Event Source: MsiInstaller  
Event Category: None  
Event ID: 11304  
Date: 09/01/2005  
Time: 12:08:26 AM  
User: N/A  
Computer: AMIT-D2E6YEDPFS  
Description:  
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English -- Error 1304.Error writing to file: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Windows.Forms.dll. Verify that you have access to that directory.  
  
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.  
Data:  
0000: 7b 43 46 33 32 33 34 44 {CF3234D  
0008: 30 2d 38 36 35 30 2d 34 0-8650-4  
0010: 45 33 37 2d 41 34 42 45 E37-A4BE  
0018: 2d 33 44 35 38 32 32 36 -3D58226  
0020: 39 42 45 41 34 7d 9BEA4}**

Second Entry:

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Event Type: Error  
Event Source: MsiInstaller  
Event Category: None  
Event ID: 10005  
Date: 09/01/2005  
Time: 12:08:28 AM  
User: N/A  
Computer: AMIT-D2E6YEDPFS  
Description:  
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Edition Beta 2-English -- The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2350. The arguments are: , ,  
  
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.  
Data:  
0000: 7b 43 46 33 32 33 34 44 {CF3234D  
0008: 30 2d 38 36 35 30 2d 34 0-8650-4  
0010: 45 33 37 2d 41 34 42 45 E37-A4BE  
0018: 2d 33 44 35 38 32 32 36 -3D58226  
0020: 39 42 45 41 34 7d 9BEA4}

Microsoft has a KB that talks about [troubleshooting Visual Studio.NET installation](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q319714), but that really not helpful in this context.

So, has anyone else seen it? Having talked to some of my buddies, it seems like they did not have an issue. I thought the extract of the ISO could be corrupt, so I extracted it again (though I did not download the 3.15 gb again) and I cannot think what the issue might be.