Installation and containerization of the Visual Studio family of products
August 9, 2009Aug 9, 200908/9/09A security update for ATL, KB971092, is currently offered for Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 customers who have Visual C++ installed. If Microsoft Update is continuously offering this patch to you, you may need to clear up some disk space.
July 31, 2009Jul 31, 200907/31/09Customers have commented that whenever they try to install other products or patches they continually see the following message,
Another installation is in progress. You must complete that installation before continuing this one.
Customers may also see instances of msiexec.exe or msiexec.exe*32 appear continuously in Task Manager or other process monitoring software.
May 29, 2009May 29, 200905/29/09The Visual Studio 2008 RTM and SP1 detection keys are largely the same as the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 detection keys, and are documented below. But there is a caveat for released and upcoming versions: the shared detection value can be overwritten by an older installation of the same release.
May 20, 2009May 20, 200905/20/09Using the Collect Utility
If you encounter any setup issues, we will need all relevant logs. Please follow the instructions below to collect all those logs.
Download collect.exe from the link below.
You may choose to save the tool for later use,
February 2, 2009Feb 2, 200902/2/09After installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, adding or removing features from Visual Studio may prompt for the file SQLSysClrTypes.msi with the following text:
Setup is looking for file SQLSysClrTypes.msi. Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite –
January 28, 2009Jan 28, 200901/28/09Windows Installer supports advertising features to enable users to later install those features on demand. But Windows Installer may advertise features in when a component is removed from a feature through obsolescence or supersedence. This will leave the product in a broken state while reporting that the patch installed successfully.
January 27, 2009Jan 27, 200901/27/09The attached Windows Script file allows you to unadvertise features in a Windows Installer product by specifying either a ProductCode or the path to an MSP. If any features are advertised – whether incidental or intentional – the product will be reinstalled and those features added locally to your computer.
November 5, 2008Nov 5, 200811/5/08If Visual Studio 2008 SP1 prompts you to run the Microsoft Visual Studio Patch removal tool, it means that a patch or product is installed that would cause issues when installing VS2008 SP1. The dialog is shown below.
If you run the the patch removal tool and are still seeing this dialog,
August 20, 2008Aug 20, 200808/20/08If you need to repair Visual Studio 2008 once SP1 has been applied or wish to change which features are installed, you cannot run setup.exe from the original installation media.
When you run repair from media you may see an error like,
August 16, 2008Aug 16, 200808/16/08Some customers are reporting that Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is failing to install with the following error in the HTML log you can view from the error dialog.
Patch (C:UsersheathsAppDataLocalTEMPWebDesignerCore_KB950278.msp) install failed on product (Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007). Msi Log: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1_20080816_141317516-Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007-MSP0.txt
Final Result: Installation failed with error code: (0x80070663),
