Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

re: Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

Daniel Burwitz — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:10:35 GMT

Heath

thank you for this helpful explanation. This allowed me installing x64 tools after applying SP1.

Cheers, Daniel

re: Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

Heath Stewart — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:45:00 GMT

@Richard, you will need the installation media. This post states you should not *launch* setup from the installation media. Launch it from ARP, and if / when prompted insert your installation media and it should work just fine.

re: Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

Richard — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:49:59 GMT

This just doesn't work at all. I do exactly that and then it requires that I put in the installation media. There's no way to "Choose the option you which to perform and continue as directed" without using the installation media.

re: Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

Andreas Jansson — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:08:35 GMT

I installed the KB979576 patch to solve this (or very similar?) problem.

"Microsoft" wrote: "[...] installing KB979576 will fix this problem. KB979576 is available at connect.microsoft.com/.../DownloadDetails.aspx. Yes, the patch is seemingly unrelated, but it does contain a fix for this issue as well, and it's much smaller than uninstalling/reinstalling VS 2008 SP1."

See connect.microsoft.com/.../installing-visual-studio-2008-sp1-disables-ability-to-make-changes-to-visual-studio-installed-features

After installing KB979576 I was able to "change" the installation, using the "add or remove programs" feature of the control panel.

A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. VS2008

suenihy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:49:32 GMT

在进行修复VS2008之前，我只用到C#，但是因为项目的需要我需要用到c ，准备修复一下VS2008.但是却出现了“Aproblemhasbeenencounteredwhileload...

re: Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

Mike Eshva — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:26:06 GMT

Well, as usually I will answer to myself.

To add a package I needed to remove SP1 under Visual Studio (Show updates option in Add or Remove Programs) and after that rerun setup from Add or Remove Programs as you described. After that I've reinstalled SP1.

re: Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

Mike Eshva — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:50:36 GMT

I did as you have wrote but been unsuccesful. I tried to add VC++ feature. The setup gave me this message:

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Setup

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A selected drive is no longer valid. Please review your installation path settings before continuing with setup.

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I have entered installation DVD into hardware drive and have mounted the SP1 ISO file but result was the same. What can I do?

re: Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

Alexander M. Batishchev — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:12:47 GMT

Thanks, Heath! Your tip was very helpful

re: Do not repair VS 2008 SP1 from installation media

Heath Stewart — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:02:56 GMT

Jashan and Ruzmak, please see http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2008/10/06/adding-features-to-visual-studio-2008-may-fail-to-load-setup-components.aspx which might describe the issue you're experiencing along with the workaround.

Adding features to Visual Studio 2008 may fail to load setup components

Heath Stewart's Blog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:57:27 GMT

When attempting to add features to Visual Studio 2008 after it has already been installed, you may see