wine users - Apr 2010 - Unable to install visual studio using WINE

I tried to run the setup.exe of the visual c++ using WINE 1.0.1 it runs
successfully till the screen where i have to select Visual C++ after that it
says
"AN UNEXPECTED ERROR OCCURRED SETUP WILL CLOSE NOW"......at terminal
it says "heap nill(0)..."
What should I do??

> I tried to run the setup.exe of the visual c++ using WINE 1.0.1 it runs
successfully till the screen where i have to select Visual C++ after that it
says
> "AN UNEXPECTED ERROR OCCURRED SETUP WILL CLOSE NOW"......at
terminal it says "heap nill(0)..."
> What should I do??
>
Get rid of wine-1.0.1. That is too old to work with visual studio.
Install the current or recent dev version. The current wine is
wine-1.1.42. Also winetricks will install vs2005trial (180 day full
version) and several other versions of visual studio. And they work
for the most part.

John