Today I spent some time repaving my computer with the PDC build of Windows 7. Whilst it’s probably a long way out I thought I would see just how far Microsoft is along with the next version of Windows. After all, the reports I’ve been hearing have been very positive about it and to be honest, it can’t be much worse than Vista.
I encountered a couple of minor issues early on but nothing that was insurmountable. When it came to installing Visual Studio 2008 the core product installed fine but SP1 kept on failing – I tried a couple of times thinking it was caused by me doing other things whilst the install was progressing.
I took a quick look at the error log and noticed it failing on one assembly to do with Visual Studio Tools for Office.
Drilling into the VSTO specific log I was able to pull out the knowledge base number, ie KB949258.
MSI (s) (F0:5C) [18:27:43:876]: Windows Installer installed an update. Product Name: Visual Studio Tools for the Office system 3.0 Runtime. Product Version: 9.0.30729. Product Language: 0. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Update Name: KB949258. Installation success or error status: 1603.
This meant I was able to look up the individual update – Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System (version 3.0 Runtime) Service Pack 1 (x86). Downloading and installing this before SP1 of Visual Studio 2008 enabled the installation to progress nicely.
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Have you noticed that the manifest tool will not add/update the .manifest to the .exe when compiling? I’ve tried this with Visual Studio 2008 on Win7 builds 6801 and 6956
I want to ask if it is possible ti install VS2008 on Win 7? Do you have anz suggestion about this? Thank you.
I would like to ask what is your version of Win 7? Mind is Win 7 build 7000 on which I cannot install either VS 2008 Pro nor VS 2008 SP1 Express.
I was able to install VS 2008 Team Developer edition on Windows 7 build 7000, but VS2008 SP1 crashes when it tries to install the VC++ runtime SP1. No luck running the standalone, either. This is frustrating.
I have VS 2008 Standard Edition which does not include VSTO so your fix will not work. I am experiencing the same issue with VS 2008 SP1 failing to install. Any other ideas?
I tried to upgrade from trial VS2008 to full… but, on Windows 7 Beta there is no “Upgrade to Microsoft Visual Studio 2008″ option… anyone knows why?… did anyone else encountered this problem?!
I have the same problem! How to solve it?
Me too I have the same problem! Have you a solution at this problem? Thank you
I spent 40 hours trying to get visual c++ studio standard and express to work with windows 7 4-24-08 to compile and link a simple 3 – 6 line code, microsoft proved to me it was windows 7. they refused to help me until I tried VSS2008 on my mothers vista computer. I did and it worked on the programs I redundently kept writing for 40 hours like a charm. It seems its the manifest files linker or that it looks for file name with .exe when you are linking a .cpp file but the error was system cannot find the file specified. good luck all. I go back to XP today.