Visual Studio Updates
by Ryan Dey (not Tom Watson) · in Torque Game Engine · 06/16/2006 (7:19 pm) · 1 replies
Slightly off topic, but I figure I'd ask the experts first.
I just got my hands on TSE, so I'm going through the initial setup stuff to get myself up and running.
As I'm dusting off my old copy of Visual Studio (was a programmer once upon a time), it is telling me that it can't open TSE SDK.sln because it was created with a newer version of VS. No worries, I just need to update.
But that's where I'm having trouble. Using the "Check for Updates" from the help menu won't connect, complaining about network and hardware settings. IE works fine, but VS can't get any connectivity. So I surfed around the Microsoft website for a while, but was unable to find any pertinent software updates.
I was wondering if anyone might be able to provide a direct link to a Visual Studio update, or provide advice on getting my copy talking to the internet again.
BTW, I'm using Visual Studio .NET 2003, version 7.1.3088, circa late 2002 (where have the years gone?).
Thanks in advance.
I just got my hands on TSE, so I'm going through the initial setup stuff to get myself up and running.
As I'm dusting off my old copy of Visual Studio (was a programmer once upon a time), it is telling me that it can't open TSE SDK.sln because it was created with a newer version of VS. No worries, I just need to update.
But that's where I'm having trouble. Using the "Check for Updates" from the help menu won't connect, complaining about network and hardware settings. IE works fine, but VS can't get any connectivity. So I surfed around the Microsoft website for a while, but was unable to find any pertinent software updates.
I was wondering if anyone might be able to provide a direct link to a Visual Studio update, or provide advice on getting my copy talking to the internet again.
BTW, I'm using Visual Studio .NET 2003, version 7.1.3088, circa late 2002 (where have the years gone?).
Thanks in advance.
About the author
Torque Owner Ryan Dey (not Tom Watson)
The update error is described in this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=836454
but that sort of leads to a dead end, recommending to install a service pack, and only linking to a VS2002 SP1.
While tracking down versions of updates, and vaguely wondering if TSE requires Visual Studio 2005 to run, I realized that I was opening the projects in /vc8, when I'm clearing running vc7. Duh!
So now I have my .sln open and can move on (even if my VS is out of date).