Error Installing Visual Studio 2008 Sp1
Setup & Install by Heath Stewart Application Lifecycle Management Application Insights Release Management Team Foundation Server Testing Visual Studio Team Services All Languages Visual C++ Visual F# JavaScript TypeScript Python .NET .NET .NET with Beth Massi ASP.NET by Scott Hanselman OData Team WPF Platform Development Apps for Windows Bing Edge Microsoft Azure Office 365 Development Web Data Development SQL Server SQL Server Data Tools DocumentDB Setup & Install by Heath Stewart About Windows Installer, the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio. KB944899 Should be Removed before Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ May 16, 2008 by Heath Stewart (MSFT) // 16 Comments 0 0 0 Before installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, you should first uninstall KB944899, a hotfix which improves performance when stepping through source downloaded from a source server. If KB944899 is not removed prior to Visual Studio 2008 SP1, sometime during the middle of installation an error will occur and the error dialog is displayed as shown below. Click on the "log file" link in the middle of the dialog. If it opens in Internet Explorer, you may have to click on the yellow information bar that appears on the top to allow scripts to run. Check the "Errors" message type and the following errors are highlighted. Action: Install patch (C:\Users\heaths\AppData\Local\TEMP\VS90sp1-KB945140-X86-ENU.msp) to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite - ENUReturning IDOK. INSTALLMESSAGE_ERROR [You must first uninstall the update for KB944899 before this installation can continue]Patch (C:\Users\heaths\AppData\Local\TEMP\VS90sp1-KB945140-X86-ENU.msp) install failed on product (Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite - ENU). Msi Log: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Beta)_20080516_110428247-MSP0.txtMsiApplyMultiplePatches returned 0x643 How to workaround this issue You should remove KB944899 using the following instructions. Download and run the cleanup tool Updated: Download and run the cleanup utility which will both uninstall the patch if installed and delete any relevant traces in the registry. This is the recommended approach which supersedes the following manual in
Setup & Install by Heath Stewart Application Lifecycle Management Application Insights Release Management Team Foundation Server Testing Visual Studio Team Services All Languages Visual C++ Visual F# JavaScript TypeScript Python .NET .NET .NET with Beth Massi ASP.NET by Scott Hanselman OData Team WPF Platform Development Apps for Windows Bing Edge Microsoft Azure Office 365 Development Web Data Development SQL Server SQL Server Data Tools DocumentDB Setup & Install by Heath Stewart About Windows Installer, the .NET Framework, and Visual Studio. VS 2008 SP1 fails to install because of missing https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2008/05/16/kb944899-should-be-removed-before-installing-visual-studio-2008-sp1/ packages from the cache ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ August 16, 2008 by Heath Stewart (MSFT) // 3 Comments 0 0 0 Some 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 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/heaths/2008/08/16/vs-2008-sp1-fails-to-install-because-of-missing-packages-from-the-cache/ Office Enterprise 2007-MSP0.txt Final Result: Installation failed with error code: (0x80070663), This update package could not be opened. Verify that the update package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer update package. The error log file name will be different and may not always contain "Office". Workaround Most often this happens because a patch package is missing from the Windows Installer cache and is required to install a new patch. In this case, the Windows Installer cache must be rebuilt. While the method to determine which packages have to be restored is fairly generic, these following instructions are specific to Office to serve as an example and because this seems to be the most common case given the likely cause described in the next section, Prevention, and the size of Office 2007 SP1 patch packages. Click on the link to the log file right above the line beginning with "Final Result". A file should open where the majority of lines begin with "MSI". Search for "SOURCEMGMT" (without quotes). A few lines above it sh
trying to http://blogs.msmvps.com/vstsblog/2009/07/29/hotfix-kb-971092-for-visual-studio-2008-sp1-install-problems/ install Service Pack 1. First of all you will get an error error installing message (Error 1324) which will tell you that Program Files contains an invalid character. After the installation finished you can access the log file. error installing visual (shown below) In there select the link (marked yellow). And now search for pfiles. You will find something like G:\PFiles. On my computer G was a virtual drive. So the solution was to deactivate all virtual and physical read-only drives and then try the installation all over again. This time it worked seamlessly. Comments Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. Philipp Küng Contact | Subscribe twitter.com/philippkueng github.com/philippkueng flickr.com/photos/agentcmos
for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 install problems July 29th, 2009 · 33 Comments · Troubleshooting TFS, VSTS Applies to: Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (KB971092) Symptoms: The update installs successfully and but will be offered again by Windows Update as a new update. This can be repeated indefinitely. or the standalone installer tells you that this update "does not apply, or is blocked by another condition on your system". Workaround (found here): Download the stand-alone version of VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe. Start the installation VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe Wait for the error message to come up – do not close the window Copy the temp. folder where the patch has been unpacked to a new folder, for example onto your desktop. Close VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe that you started in step 2. Navigate to {Program Files}\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools and find vsvars32.bat. Change the permissions on the file to allow everyone to edit it. Start VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.msp from within the saved folder and the process should complete. You may want to reset permissions that you gave in step 7. Tags: 33 Comments so far ↓ m williams // Jul 29, 2009 at 21:49 Where is the temp folder? the installer doesn't say Reply kauhl // Jul 29, 2009 at 23:23 thanks for this tip. it worked beautifully. Reply guest // Jul 30, 2009 at 01:19 dosen't work: Error in Template (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\VisualBasic\Workflow\1033\StateMachineWorkflowLibrary.zip), file (StateMachineWorkflowLibrary.vstemplate). Unregistered ProjectType (VisualBasic). This can be caused by an incorrect ProjectType or because the project type package is not installed. Reply HR // Jul 30, 2009 at 01:55 Cool 🙂 works for me. WINXP_SP3 Reply Hynek // Jul 30, 2009 at 02:33 Thanks a lot. This worked for me. 🙂 Reply Orbusian // Jul 30, 2009 at 02:45 Just use the Extract command line option to extract files as below, to a folder and then install using VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.msp VS90SP1-KB971092-x86.exe/Extract [:path] Reply Stephen // Jul 30, 2009 at 08:49 Does not work! I get an error when copying about ‘Cannot copy $shtdwn$: It is being used by another person or program. Reply Julián // Jul 30, 2009 at 09:24 Thank you. Works great! Vista 32 SP2 ESN + VS2008TS SP1 ESN Reply david // Jul 30, 2009 at 09:41 Wow, seriously? This is the recommended solution? Any plans to release a working version of the hotfix any time soon? Reply Josh Hurley // Jul 30, 2009 at 09:51 The key is to watch were it unpacks, that location is only visible for