Problem installing .NET Framework 2.0

When installing the .NET 2.0 framework in the VS 2005 installation, th einstallation would just take forever not getting anywhere. I would leave it for 4 hours hoping that it would install but nothing happpened. This was using an ISO downloaded from the MSDN Academic Alliance (my University is subscribed to it for all members of my course - therefore I was using a DVD burnt by one of my mates, that had worked on his computer). Having given up with this I then decided to try installing the .NET 2.0 SDK before installing VS 2005. Again I got the same problem with the SDk install. After much searching through the Internet I still found no answer to my problem, therefore I tried to read up on eveything the .NET SDK needed to update, and discovered that it may need to turn off some services. I checked which services were running, and shut down those that were not of vital importance, and discovered that the IIS service would not stop. I tried restarting, but had the same problem. I eventually got round this by loading into safe mode, forcing the IIS service to stop, and telling it not to start up again, reloading into normal mode, installing the .NET 2.0 SDK, then installing VS 2005.
My question is, is this a common problem The VS 2005 install gave no information as to why it wasn't doing anything - just sat there trying to install .NET 2.0, and the SDK install was no better, with no discernable information as to why it wasn't installing. It was only luck really that I happened to find that it may need to stop some services, and then finding that IIS wouldn't stop, that allowed me to sort the problem.
The reason I am asking is the fact that this problem took me so long to sort (c. 2 weeks of trying everything - I hadn't discovered this forum yet) had an impact on my dissertation project (which had already been impacted by a fire at the University), and my supervisor suggested that it woud be a good idea to include this problem as an appendix, but suggested getting feedback as to how common the problem is (has anyone else experienced it ), and iof there were an easier way of solving it.
Sorry for the long message, any feedback would be greatly appreciated,
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Problem installing .NET Framework 2.0

Jay_Vora_b4843e
Thanks for the suggestion Michael, but I had no beta products on my machine - I had Visual Studio .NET 2003, with .NET Framework 1.1 installed but that was it. None of those should cause the IIS service to refuse to stop, should they
This problem isn't current by the way, I did find a fix, but I'm just trying to work out why IIS should be stuck on, and why neither the .NET 2.0 framework, or the manual "Stop service" command could stop it. Is this just a random hiccup of my PC, or is this a common problem
Thanks again for the help,
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Jamie Thomson
Hi Optimistic1954,

I'm pretty sure that the only service I had to stop was the "IIS Admin" Service; however I had to do this by going into safe mode and changing its startup type to "disabled" (under right click properties) then restarting into normal mode. If you've only been stopping it then it might be worth trying the method above followed by a restart, as stopping it may not be working (it might be worth trying to disable it in normal mode first, and only use safe mode if once you have disabled it and restarted it doesn't come up as disabled in the startup type column). Other than that I'm afraid I can't be of any more help other than to say it might be worth looking at point 5 in http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20020119.asp and disable any firewall or antivirus services. Although this pertains to an earlier version of Visual Studio it may well be the same now. Hope this helps and allows you to resolve your problem.

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Peter Cwik
IxxI:

It should not be necessary to install the 2.0 SDK separately from VS. Since the DVD seems to be good, I would suspect that maybe you had a beta version of VS, or C# Express, or the .NET Framework 2.0 on your machine. There were problems with uninstalling beta versions of the product through "Add and Remove programs." I would advise you to get the special beta uninstall tool from the url below and run it. Then try to install VS again. If that doesn't work, then try burning your own DVD. Believe it or not, it is supposed to just work, and it usually does.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/uninstall/default.aspx

Michael Blome - Visual C# Documentation Team
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IxxI

I have this exact same problem. Any chance you can list the services you stopped I'm a newbie at this and frankly am stuck. Like you I have spent about a week on this so far.

Many thanks in anticipation.

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Galin Iliev
We've seen other applications cause IIS to either hang or not uninstall until those programs were removed or stopped as well.

Since the Framework installs ASP components, it requires IIS to be off to properly install the files.
Problem installing .NET Framework 2.0

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