The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Vasu — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:55:20 GMT

Do you know if there is a way to run the SP1 install silently?

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:36:33 GMT

Vasu, yes. In fact, I have mentioned passing the /quiet flag in several posts which can help eliminate a couple of other problems. As with most Windows applications, you can pass /? to view more usage information.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Yuval Rakavy — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:23:57 GMT

Good day!

For me it was almost two days worth of work to install the product. The first time SP1 installation failed for some reason (with a cryptic error message), and left my machine in such state that almost nothing worked, including the old version, so basically my development machine was out of service for two days! and I was close to panic state.

After lot of research, I found out that the installer recovery left the new version of the C runtime menifest and policies in Windows\WinSxS, but removed the actual DLLs!

In general the whole experience is in my opinion unacceptable. It should not take longer than the original installation to apply a service pack.

You must provide a full installs with SP1 for the whole product line. When thinking about the total time that installing Visual Studio 2005 and then installing SP1 on a new machine, I really get cold feets.

Think of this in in terms of productivty lost, multiple this by the amount of developers that would pass through this!

A few VS 2005 SP1 Links and Information Nuggets

ScottGu's Blog — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:24:40 GMT

In you were out the second half of December, you might have missed some of the VS 2005 Service Pack 1

A few VS 2005 SP1 Links and Information Nuggets

Mirror blog entries from the industry — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:41:33 GMT

In you were out the second half of December, you might have missed some of the VS 2005 Service Pack 1

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Tristan — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:15:45 GMT

Hi Heath,

I originally installed VS 2005 direct from the MSDN ISO using the Virtual CD tool. When I try to install SP1, it fails with a error reporting that the original install source cannot be located.

How do I work around this problem? Is it possible to look up the original install somehow?

Thanks in advance!

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:47:13 GMT

Tristan, there are cases where Windows Installer requires the original source media, often due to files that are missing in a feature being patched, but when such files are not in the patch (perhaps they weren't updated). You will have to mount the MSDN ISO again, or - for future use - burn that ISO to a DVD and use that now for the source.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Carl Daniel — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:49:43 GMT

It's nice to have some idea what's going on during the install. But what on Earth is Windows Installer doing during the 'Gathering required information' phase (Figure 7) that leaves a dual core 3Ghz machine with 2Gb of memory running compute bound for nearly an hour (for a full install of Team Suite)!? Surely the list of files to install can be determined in a fraction of that time!

Links to detailed information about Visual Studio 2005 SP1 setup

Aaron Stebner's WebLog — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:19:02 GMT

Heath Stewart has written several very useful blog posts about Visual Studio 2005 SP1 that I wanted to

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:42:02 GMT

Carl, during this phase the installation script is written, writing all FileCopy and other operations to the script that will actually do the work as shown in figure 8. In order to determine why it took so long, you can look in a verbose log for “Doing action: InstallInitialize” and look at the times in the log between that and “Doing action: InstallFinalize”. At some point you may see a big difference in time which will identify the culprit.

It could also be that you are actually exhibiting an intermittent problem during InstallValidate due an issue in the way that the DuplicateFile table is queried. You will see a big time difference between “Action start [time]: InstallValidate.” and “Action ended [time]: InstallValidate. Return value 1.” when that issue occurs.

几个VS 2005 SP1连接和一些有用的信息

Joycode@Ab110.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:56:47 GMT

【原文地址】 A few VS 2005 SP1 Links and Information Nuggets 【原文发表日期】 Monday, January 01, 2007 8:24 PM 如果你在12月份的下半个月出去了，你也许错过了我早先写的几篇关于VS

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Norman Diamond — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:34:27 GMT

Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:23 PM by Yuval Rakavy

> It should not take longer than the original

> installation to apply a service pack.

I have the same wish, but actually this is nothing new. The first time I had service packs take longer than the original installation was Windows NT4 SP3.

> You must provide a full installs with SP1 for

> the whole product line.

Again I have the same wish, but this takes some care. For Office 97 SR1, full installs were the only way to do it, downloads were not provided[*], and Microsoft charged money for the new full installs even though customers had already paid for the product.

[* Exceptions: downloads were provided for some foreign language versions such as English.]

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Simon — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:52:44 GMT

I notice that there is a 477Mb .msp file left in the Installer folder after installation. Can I get rid of this?

Visual Studio 2005 SP1: Good news, bad news

Strategic Developer — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:02:51 GMT

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re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Carl Daniel — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:04:35 GMT

Heath - Thanks for the follow-up. I'll take a look in the install log when I get a chance, but I don't think I'm seeing anything out of the ordinary. I've installed SP1 on a number of machines, and all of them have had the same behavior - nearly an hour of compute-bound work with no visible progress.

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re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Jalf — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:08:39 GMT

Thanks for outlining the install "experience" (Now there's a Microsoft word ;))

And nothing strikes you as... inefficient? Redundant? Ridiculous about this?

I mean, extracting embedded files here and there because "uh, the API doesn't support anything else", performing *multiple* identical validations of the file, copying the file (from temp to temp), and so on...

It's interesting to note that when faced with criticism that you lose up to around one day's work just to install a single product, Microsoft respons by telling what happens under the hood. *Not* by actually considering any improvements to the process.....

*sigh*

It is a bit odd that I could actually recompile the Linux kernel *multiple* times and still have time left over for a nice relaxed lunch, in the time it takes to install an update to Visual Studio...

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

AJ — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:07:12 GMT

Hi,

I am using the Vista RTM and install VS2005 team edition for software developers. I am looking at this page http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/vs2005sp1/default.aspx

which version should i install?

Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Update for Windows Vista Beta? this one seems to be for windows vista BETA but I have RTM, so should i install the first one # Visual Studio 2005 SP1

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:54:04 GMT

Simon, no, you should not delete that file. This file is needed for any future repairs or patches for Visual Studio. More information is available in http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/10/06/VS-2005-SP1-Requires-a-lot-of-Disk-Space.aspx. Several links in that post lead to even more information.

AJ, the "beta" there means that the patch for Visual Studio 2005 running on Vista RTM is a beta patch. The release version of the patch is not yet released.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Jeff — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:39:55 GMT

> AJ, the "beta" there means that the patch for Visual Studio 2005 running on Vista RTM is a beta patch

Now *I'm* confused... I thought you were demonstrating the install of the release version of VS2005 SP1, but you're showing Vista screenshots, right? How can that be if the patch for VS2005 on Vista is still in beta?

Am I missing something obvious...?

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Stephen Richards — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:13:05 GMT

I tried installing the service pack and it ran for over an hour and THEN it told me I needed to close Outlook and VB6. When I closed them, it seemed to start over again so I cancelled it. Is there a list of programs somewhere that must be closed when installing SP1?

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:18:21 GMT

Stephen, Windows Installer that processes our service pack (all Visual Studio 2005 patches, actually) decides what programs must be installed based on which files are being replaced. That list could include both Microsoft and third-party applications. It is recommended with all installers that you close all unnecessary applications before installing.

Note that if you choose to click Ignore, Windows Installer will schedule in-use files to be replaced after a reboot.

As to why it seemed to start over (not completely, but pretty close) is because costing is based on what files are to be replaced. If you close the apps those files can then be backed up and replaced, which costs slightly more (for the back up file) than scheduling the file for replacement post-reboot.

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Eric — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:59:41 GMT

I've was also astonished by the "experience" of the SP1 installation. I had also the same "surprise" with the SP1 of VS2003, now with VS2005, it is even worse: 500 MB used in RAM during the install, but seems to be blocked by the copy of the MSP, and then 5 GB of read, 5GB of write data on HDD!!!

Now the question is: can I somehow clean all the stuff the SP1 copied under Windows\Installer and all sub directories, and also under Windows\WinSxS

My Windows directory grew up to 6 GB, unbelievable!! What a waste of space... I whish I could go back under the 2 GB of a frish XP installation (let say 3 GB)

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Stephen Richards — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:30:05 GMT

Thanks, I've been afraid to select Ignore, not knowing if it could lead to problems down the road. It is very hard to schedule a long enough block of time to install SP1 on my work machine with no other apps running. Unfortunately, Outlook isn't an "unnecessary application" during the business day and it is difficult to run the installer overnight because it stops several times to ask for input, for example, to accept the EULA.

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Heath Stewart — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:57:25 GMT

Eric, please read http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/10/06/VS-2005-SP1-Requires-a-lot-of-Disk-Space.aspx. You can disable the baseline cache for Visual Studio while installing SP1. The baseline cache for this product can also be removed and I am working on a tool to assist with that. You must not remove any .msi, .mst, or .msp files from directly under %WINDIR%\Installer, but you can remove directories - understanding that source may be required when installing future patches, or uninstalling future and existing patches - from under %WINDIR%\Installer\$PatchCache% This is a necessary evil of Windows Installer to provide robust patching scenarios at the cost of disk space, which is typically assumed to be plentiful.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Matthew Vandergrift — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:45:31 GMT

Thanks for the information about what's really happening during the SP1 installation. In an age of 750GB hard drives, I appreciate the convenience of not having to hunt down source media.

Error When Installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1:

Scott on Writing — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:26:38 GMT

Error When Installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1: "The installation source for this product is not available."

Community Blogs — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:37:05 GMT

I installed Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 today on my main development box (Windows 2003 Server)

Error When Installing Visual Studio 2005 SP1: "The installation source for this product is not available."

Mirror blog entries from the industry — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:46:24 GMT

I installed Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 today on my main development box (Windows 2003 Server)

让 Visual Studio 2003

Zealic — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:03:24 GMT

Microsoft 给了我们糟糕的用户体验

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Mike — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:59:50 GMT

This SP is unacceptable in my opinion. Taking longer to install than the original product, no visual feedback, an hour in it tells you to uninstall something and start over.

Where the hell are you all going?

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Hangs There

Bob — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:04:27 GMT

Hi, Heath,

I was trying to install VS 2005 SP1 on a Windows 2003 Standard Edition with its SP1 installed. I got the 1718 error in the first

try. Then I did what the KB925336 asked. Then

I tried again. It seemed working fine. But it

has being hanging there at the last step

(mentioned in your figure 8) since last night.

The messages on the dialog box is:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard-ENU

Please wait while Windows configure Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard - ENU

Time remaining: 0

There was a "Cancel" button in the dialog box.

It disappeared after a short period of time.

I got this dialog box about 11:00PM last night.

I left it running during the night. When I

looked at it this morning, it still hung there.

I guess it will still be there when I go home

this evening.

Would you please tell me what is going on? What

should I do now? Should I reinstall the VS 2005

SP1?

Thank you.

Bob

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:38:32 GMT

Bob, not only does SP1 take a while to install, it may apply to multiple products on your machine. The Windows Installer works, each product is patched separately so the amount of time to apply the patch multiplies. Please let it run. The Cancel button typically disappears toward the end of the installation, but it can still take a while to complete. There are a lot of fixes in that patch. See my "VS 2005 SP1" tag on this blog for more details and a list of issues and workarounds.

VS2005 SP1

Dev365 -- 红移的博客 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:35:06 GMT

装个SP1还要看这么多文档，真是有点受不了。。。 Release Notes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928957/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925336

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

John — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:49:20 GMT

I installed both the original release (Visual C++ 2005 Express) and SP1 last week. The SP did go through the above dialogue screens but finished very quickly (in just a few minutes - which surprised me). It did claim that the SP1 was installed. However, the 'About' box in Visual Express doesn't mention SP1, but 'Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727.7600)'. So I am left wondering if the SP was actually installed.

Anybody have any thoughts on this?

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:58:36 GMT

John, Express SKUs are much smaller with a lot less disk I/O necessary and pass through SAFER quickly - which accounts for quite a bit of the time required to install as detailed in several other blog posts. Indeed the version 8.0.50727.762 is the file version for VS 2005 SP1.

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Oliver Osswald — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:13:49 GMT

Wow... I tried to run VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU.exe (on Windows XP Pro Engl, SVCP2, against a VS2005 Team Edition for SD) and its status in TaskManager is 'Running' - but CPU usage remains at 0-3% and nothing seems to happen - progress bar on the 'extracting' dialog apparently has freezed, no message - nothing. After 4 hours i hit the Cancel button. This - I'm sorry - is ridiculous. The fact that there is 'a lot' to be updated does not explain such a poor behaviour of an installation routine. Who is dropping such a thing on us? Zut!

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Blood — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:05:07 GMT

My installation failed 3 times in a row. Now in the C:\WNDWS\Installer folder I have 4 msp files that are exactly identical in content of 455 meg... Which one(s) can I remove? or how do I find out?

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Doug Welsby — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:54:13 GMT

The installation was pushed by Microsoft Update and failed a couple of times. I finally downloaded in, and following some of the workarounds provided here, got it working. However, I believe due to the failed installs, I now have THREE separate copies of the 466MB .MSP file in the Installer directory. Ouch - how can I determine which one was finally used, and which ones I can delete???

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:34:47 GMT

Doug, I will post another article describing this seemingly common occurance and determining which files can be deleted.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:35:32 GMT

Blood, I will post another article describing this seemingly common occurance and determining which files can be deleted.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Mike — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:08:34 GMT

Doesn't work for me either.

I get "The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it."

What do I do? I have the CD here, but I think this patch is DOA?

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Craig — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:44:02 GMT

Just to say that even on a P4 2.2 with 1 GB ram it took over three hours for the install to finish. And don't even try it without more than 3.5GB of free disk space, it will run out of space. Then when you clear some and click retry it will error anyway and you'll have to start all over again.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:44:42 GMT

Mike, keep in mind that the patch applies to multiple products, so the package you're being prompted for may not be, for example, VS. Check the dialog title and enable verbose logging so you can check in the log to see which ProductCode Windows Installer is acting on. You'll also find the ProductName in the log in a property dump at the end of the log.

Service Pack 1 Installation using quiet flag

Phil Stron — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:36:52 GMT

I "installed" the service pack using the /quiet flag and it is no longer in my proc list (task manager). How do I know it is in fact complete and/or installed?

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:28:54 GMT

The wrapper (the EXE that you download) shells out to msiexec.exe for each installed product to which the patch applies and waits on each return code. So, if you don't see VS80sp1-*.exe in the task list anymore SP1 installation is complete. ou can verify this Visual Studio's Help->About box.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Oliver Osswald — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:35:13 GMT

I made some more attempts... It failed again. I tried on a system with 1GB Ram and 7GB free diskspace. When runnig S80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU.exe with the /quiet param I can watch in the taskmanager how its use of Ram increases, and when it reaches 200 MB it just exits. In the VS about box I can see that I'm still on the previous version. When I run it without the flag, then I can see the same behaviour in the taskmanager as described above, but the dialogbox with the progressbar freezes at the moment, when the 200 MB are reached. Install fails.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:11:51 GMT

Oliver, you need to enable logging by passing "/L*vx patch.log" (without quotes) to the command-line when installing the patch in order to diagnose anything. Open a bug in Connect at http://connect.microsoft.com or contact Microsoft Support Services at http://support.microsoft.com.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

BobC — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:32:11 GMT

I cannot uninstall sp1 beta, get

Trying to uninstall sp1 beta I get a 1706 error. After running for a half-hour, I get prompted for the VS CD. I point to my cd, but get

" Error 1706. An installation package for the product Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition - ENU cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package 'vs_setup.msi'."

I posted the issue on the connect site, no feedback yet.

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=245859

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Nathan — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:42:22 GMT

When trying to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 on Vista I get the following error:

"Error: 1305. Error reading from file C:\Windows\Installer\896fd56.msi". Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.

I checked and the file does exist. I tried to set the security for the "Everyone" to Full Control but still no luck. I can send the msi log file.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:20:41 GMT

Do NOT change security under %WINDIR%\Installer. Windows Installer will wipe out the cache if the permissions allow anyone but SYSTEM and Adminstrators with full control. You will have to rebuild your installer cache. Read http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/11/30/rebuilding-the-installer-cache.aspx for how to do that.

Along with that error should've been a system error code. Once you are able to rebuild the installer cache (or use msizap.exe TW! to clean it up, and reinstall VS 2005, which will likely be easier), if the error occurs again you'll need to look in a verbose log - created by passing "/L*v patch.log" to the patch EXE you downloaded, without quotes - for error 1305. The whole log line has a system error code (an HRESULT as a signed decimal) that reports more information about the error.

You must also install, patch, and uninstall VS 2005 as an administrator.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Magnus — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:52:34 GMT

The dialog box now reports "Time remaining: 345 minutes". No Cancel button, no CPU useage, and its more than 2 hours since I started the SP1 installation. I guess my 3Ghz CPU with 2Gb of memory is to weak to install this service pack.

I dont even know what to do now? Hard-reboot the computer, and having to go through this pain again? Or wait and see if it succeeds, and if so, how long?

Ohh, its down to 344 minutes now.

What a joke!

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Adrian B — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:03:37 GMT

My install aborted (ran out of disk space on C) and now it gets lots of errors every time i run it. It seems like the rollback was not successful. What options do i have now?

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:19:38 GMT

Adrian, read http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/01/31/how-to-safely-delete-orphaned-patches.aspx for how to free-up space consumed by Windows Installer unnecessarily, and http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/02/05/visual-studio-2005-service-pack-1-rollback-breaks-some-applications.aspx for how to fix VC if you run into errors documented in that post.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Anders — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:30:52 GMT

I'd really appreciate it if Microsoft could make it much quicker to install this SP. It is waaaay too slow, not acceptable when it comes from the biggest company in the world.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Shaf — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:51:56 GMT

I cant be the only one with this problem surely...Although the SP1 install completed successfully, My debugging is completely useless in that I no longer get the unhandled exception information box anymore. All I get is ageneric "The application has encountered an error and needs to close..." error and the application exits. Does anybody know how to fix these please!! I can get no usefull error information whatsoever and fixing errors has become an impossible task.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Daniel S. Boucher — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:15:50 GMT

Heath, to say that I concerned with this service pack is a huge understatement. We've decided to upgrade our development PC's with SP1 in an effort to remain secure and keep to Microsoft's best practice recommendations. However now I'm in a jam, we cant work because of the length of time (still) being consumed with this patch, we can't cancel because it seems to take just as long to cancel as it does to install the SP and now I have to explain why the lack of progress in my department. Now I know that you can't tell me anything different than anything listed in the above messages but you can't be serious in assuming this is acceptable to you VS communinty? Is there anything being done to resolve this? Is this the same team that brought us Windows OneCare? I'm not sure though because my OneCare virus scan only took 12 hours.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:37:40 GMT

Shaf, please use the forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn or file a bug against Visual Studio using Microsoft Connect at http://connect.microsoft.com.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Matt C — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:24:01 GMT

Can I just install Visual Studio 2005 SP1, why do I need to install VS2005 and then patch it? It seems like it might be a better practice to uninstall VS 2005, and then do a complete reinstall with SP1. Doesn't look like this is an option though...

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:10:58 GMT

Matt, normally with Windows Installer you can slipstream the patch while initially installing the product. That scenario is not currently supported in Visual Studio 2002, 2003, or 2005. You can, however, create a patched administrative installation as documented at http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/12/16/slipstreaming-visual-studio-2005-service-pack-1.aspx.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Tristan — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:48:49 GMT

Similar to one of the previous problems -

error 1305: Error reading from file

C:\WINDOWS\Installer\e1a59.msi Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.

However, the file and the Installer Directory do not exist.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:05:20 GMT

Tristan, the directory is hidden. Are you viewing hidden files and folders in Explorer? You can also use "dir /a:h %WINDIR%\Installer" (without quotes). If they truly aren't there, you'll need to rebuild the Installer cache as documented in http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/11/30/rebuilding-the-installer-cache.aspx, or use msizap.exe to remove all configuration data for the product.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Jim Kennelly — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:23:19 GMT

I too am pissed at MS for this @%$#$

Why doesn't MS slipstream this $@#@# into their product. I think I could remove the product and reinstall it faster than the 4 attempts so far and be half way certain what I have at the end. Running dual core/2gig memory and it takes forever.

This is very scary ... dll hell wasn't so bad!

I renewed my MSDN subscription for this??

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Philip Long — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:01:05 GMT

My experience with installing VS2005 SP1 was not as bad as some of the comments above, but I agree with the overall sentiment paricularly about the issue of no indication of progress fro considerable periods of time. My first attempt failed about 40 seconds from the end, 2nd attempt smooth.

My problem is that I uninstalled Web Application project as a condition for installation of SP1. Before reinstall it, download site advises to first install the update package VS80-KB915364-X86-ENU.exe, which I did. Then attempting to run WebApplicationProjectSetup.msi, immediately get a message that VS80-KB915364-X86-ENU.exe must be installed first, directed to same page as before when click [Yes] - if click [no], install closes. So download VS80-KB915364-X86-ENU.exe again, install it again, then attempt run WebApplicationProjectSetup.msi again, get same message.

How do I get out of this roundabout?

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:19:09 GMT

Philip, WAP is included in SP1. You need not and should not attempt ot reinstall the WAP MSI.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Ted — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:47:12 GMT

I appreciate the detailed explanation of what's going on under the hood. But my core opinion is that it is unacceptable for the service pack application to take so long. It's a really poor user experience, when we are spending up to $5000 on our MSDN licenese, and we lose hours of productivity on our development machine. Can't Microsoft take a fraction of the talented developers over there and come up with a better solution? At the very least, how about a pop-up at the beginning of the install, that says "Hey, if you want to ignore some of the security checking and prompting, select this option, and the installation will be 90% faster". Or at the very least, how about on the download page for the product, putting some better instructions to this effect, rather than assuming that every Visual Studio developer out there is familiar with the MSI framework (or cares to learn a lot about it during a busy work day).

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Tim — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:45:28 GMT

Heath, is anyone in MS taking the issue of delivering an updated, combined VS2005 with SP1 as an integral download? I and my colleagues frequently rebuild our machines and the poorly thought out implementation and delivery of SP1 is a major hit on our productivity. I sincerely hope lessons have been learned for SP2. Sorry to sound negative but this service pack is not an example to the rest of us about qualtiy design, coding, implementation and customer satisfaction. I'd get sacked if I caused my customers this amount of problems, and then didnt take every step to make it easier once I saw the issue.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

Heath Stewart — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:40:36 GMT

Tim, please read http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/12/16/slipstreaming-visual-studio-2005-service-pack-1.aspx for how to slipstream SP1 into VS 2005 RTM.

re: The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Installation Experience

tim — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:02:51 GMT

Thanks Heath, my point wasn't really that it couldn't be done, and you personally have done a lot to help out folks struggling with this monster. My point was really that this shouldn't be a customer task, they certainly shouldn't have to chance onto your blog to learn how to do it. This is a MS task to make this seamless and painless to customers like me. We lost days of productivity doing this upgrade. Like I said previously, if I produced this process for my customers, I'd get sacked. This is 2007 not 1997.

VS 2005 SP1 Update for Vista Requires VS 2005 SP1

Heath Stewart's Blog — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:50:42 GMT

If you're attempting to install the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista without

Visual Studio 2005 SP1을 Install/Remove 할 때, 1305 Error를 만날 수 있다.

Korea Developer Support Team — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:21:54 GMT

VS 2005 ENU( 영문 ) SP1 을 Install 및 Remove 시에 아래와 같은 오류가 발생할 수 있습니다. “ Error 1305. Error reading from file