visual interdev 6.0 won't work

[BarrMan]

Hi, I'm having trouble with my visual interdev 6.0, it worked just fine 3 days ago and after i had installed visual studio 2005 i started to get an error everytime i try to open visual interdev:
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AppName: devenv.exe AppVer: 6.0.81.67 ModName: msenv.dll
ModVer: 6.1.81.71 Offset: 000105fd

Can anyone help me with this? Thanks.

Edit: This is a link for a solution in microsoft's site but i don't think it's relevant since the user account i use on my computer is the only account and the administrator. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327038

[BarrMan]

please help me as soon as possible... i can't work without my visual interdev i have some big asp projects to build but i can't do it without it... please help me!

[oracleguy]

Did you try re-installing InterDev?

[BarrMan]

yup... i reinstalled it and while it was installing i got the error: "pdm.dll was unable to register itself in the system registry", and then i get the message that visual studio was not succesfully installed, something like that...

[oracleguy]

While not a direct solution to your problem, you could just use visual studio 2005 instead, since you are editing essentially text files, it should work for doing ASP work.

[BarrMan]

what program should i use there?

[spiyush]

I was able to resolve it after some tweaking and have documented the solution at my blog - http://piyushkrsrivastava.blogspot.com/2006/05/microsoft-visual-studio-60.html

Hope the post will be useful to you.

[bentangle]

I was able to resolve it after some tweaking and have documented the solution at my blog - http://piyushkrsrivastava.blogspot.com/2006/05/microsoft-visual-studio-60.html

Hope the post will be useful to you.

Before you do that....as it may cause your system to become unstable, you might want to google a little bit. I found people who did this and had to restore thier systems afterwards. Search the threads are out there. Now how about another way to solve the issue, that wont cause your system to dump...

I found this in another thread:

You probably sorted this by now, but for the record, I had the same
issue. It is caused by the registry permissions becoming corrupted
which prevents the dll from registering. Grab a copy of regmon from
www.Sysinternals.com, then use regsvr32 to register the dll manually
from Windows\system32. Regmon will show you which keys have access
denied (set up process filtering to just show regsvr32 or the console
gets swamped) then you can use regedit to alter the permissions and
delete the offending keys.

I did this I found that access was denied while retrying to write some reg settings, so look for the access denied entries, then double click the entry, it will open this location in regedit for you. Once regedit is open to the correct location, right click, choose permissions. I found about 5 folders that access was denied to, and had to give admin full access to complete the process. It required running regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\pdm.dll over and over(5 times) as each time you will be shown the NEXT key it could not write, and it will error out (for me with a code of 0x80070005) After I fixed the permissions, I was able to register the dll successfully. I dont know why the admin account is locked out of these registry settings, but a wise man would put them back as they were. Your wisdom may vary...

Afk~