After installing Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, adding or removing features from Visual Studio may prompt for the file SQLSysClrTypes.msi with the following text:
Setup is looking for file SQLSysClrTypes.msi. Please insert Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite – ENU disk 1 now.
The text will read differently depending if you have Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition or another edition or language installed.
SQLSysClrTypes.msi is a product package installed with VS2008 SP1. To satisfied this prompt you’ll need to obtain that file again.
On 64-bit machines you will always see this prompt when adding or removing features so it is recommended you keep this file for future use. If you are a network administrator or have the installation source copied to your hard drive, you can also create this directory in the root of the original installation source directory and the setup executable will automatically find SQLSysClrTypes.msi.
To get this to work I also needed to create a folder called 'Setup' on my desktop. I copied the 'Setup\setup.sdb' file from the original VS 2008 DVD into this folder. Only after doing this would the prompt accept my 'Desktop' folder and continue the install.
Regards,
Jamie.
Jamie, thank you. Originally the instructions were to put this under the installation cache directory which was a bit more to explain, so to simplify instructions I thought referencing the Desktop was easier. Since the instructions are incomplete, however, I'll put up the original instructions such that Setup\setup.sdb does not need to be copied.
Thanks for posting this. You saved me from a full reinstall.
I was adding the Visual Web Developper feature, and I couldn't get to install it because of the missing SQLSysClrTypes.msi on a Windows Vista 64-bit machine.
Your suggestion didn't help, but after cancelling the setup, and manually installing SQLSysClrTypes.msi from the SP1 I was able to add the feature.
SQLSysClrTypes.msi fails to download every time I try to run the sp1 installer. I copied the URL from the log and tried to download it manually in my web browser (Opera) and it gets to 260k or 261k and stops every time, but the download is 1.5M.
it needs this dir:
temp\
temp\setup\setup.sdb from 2008 dvd
temp\wcu\
temp\wcu\smo\SQLSysClrTypes.msi download from microsoft
select the temp folder in that dialog. it works!
@ahgan -
BINGO! That is all I needed, thanks!
Thank you for sharing the solution!