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Rule Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 failed

2010-03-07 05:43
Today I was trying to install SQL 2008 on my box and the setup stopped after checking a bunch of rules. The error message was the title of this post. A quick search on the internet revealed that somehow the installer didn 39;t believe I had VS 2008 SP1 installed, which I did. The recommendations in the KB article were kind of insulting. There 39;s no way I 39;d spend hours of my day uninstalling and reinstalling VS and SQL mdash; sorry, no chance. I also could not accept not installing the Management Tools, for example. I also did not have any Express version of VS or SQL installed in this box. A little snooping around with ProcMon led me to the following registry key: HKLM SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft DevDiv VS Servicing 9.0 IDE 1033 In that key I noticed the suspicious values: quot;SP quot;=dword:00000000 quot;SPIndex quot;=dword:00000000 quot;SPName quot;= quot;RTM quot; Without quitting the SQL server installer validaton screen, I changed these values to what you see below, crossed my fingers and rerun the installer validation, which passed! quot;SP quot;=dword:00000001 quot;SPIndex quot;=dword:00000001 quot;SPName quot;= quot;SP1 quot; Now, I didn 39;t really guess those values. I looked in a sibling registry key (...Servicing 9.0 IDE 1033) and saw that it contained those new values, then I copied them. I think I didn 39;t break anything. So far all seems to be working. But, as usual with anything related to manual registry hacking, you have to be really insane to change your settings because you read on a random blog on the 39;net. I 39;m just saying... Don 39;t come crying if your house burns down because of this.
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