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1 Installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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9 Recently, I realized that a few of our developement servers were running Visual
10 Studio 2008 with the beta of SP1. One would assume that the installation of a
11 service pack wouldn't be too difficult but since they already had the beta of
12 service pack 1 installed, the installation of SP1 became a bit more
13 complicated.
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15 If you download the service pack installation file from Microsoft and run it,
16 you get an error saying that you need to run the Service Pack Preparation Tool
17 before being able to install. Head to the Microsoft website and download the
18 removal tool.
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20 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A494B0E0-EB07-4FF1-A21C-A4663E456D9D&displaylang=en#AffinityDownloads
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22 In my case, I ran the SP prep tool and received yet another error. It said that
23 it need some files on the installation disk for **Visual Studio 2008 Shell
24 (integrated mode) ENU**. The ticket here is that we don't have a disk for that
25 and to my knowledge, there isn't one. Microsoft has a download for it but it's
26 an executable that doesn't extract an iso. I searched around for a solution to
27 the problem and found a site that said to simply uninstall *VS 2008 Shell*
28 (listed in Programs and Features as Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell...). I
29 performed said action and the prep tool ran fine with no errors.
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31 After running the prep tool, I simply ran the installer for the service pack
32 with yet again no errors.
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34 The install did, however, take about two hours (ugh).
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36 There you have it.
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39 Category:Microsoft
40 Category:Visual_Studio
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