Comments on: Installing VS 2008 SP1 on Windows 7

By: Jeremy Simpson

Jeremy Simpson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:28:12 +0000

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.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:22:11 +0000

Me too I have the same problem! Have you a solution at this problem? Thank you

By: alexey

alexey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:43:43 +0000

I have the same problem! How to solve it?

By: Mihai

Mihai — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:46:07 +0000

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?!

By: Michael Lacy

Michael Lacy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:23:19 +0000

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?

By: Josh Usovsky

Josh Usovsky — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:56:34 +0000

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.

By: jesuscheung

jesuscheung — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:29:25 +0000

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.

By: Pedja

Pedja — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:25:00 +0000

I want to ask if it is possible ti install VS2008 on Win 7? Do you have anz suggestion about this? Thank you.

By: CBC

CBC — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:00:15 +0000

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

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