Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Heath Stewart's Blog : Known Issues with Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1

Heath Stewart's Blog : Known Issues with Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 05:09:53 GMT

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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 failures can break existing applications

Aaron Stebner's WebLog — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:36:32 GMT

I have heard from a couple of customers who tried to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1 , only to have it

What about VC8 SP1 Merge Modules?

Michael Urman — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:31:47 GMT

Are the VC8 SP1 Merge Modules likely to expose the same partial-rollback problems when included in other setups, or are these problems specific to something special the VS 2005 SP1 install does?

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Heath Stewart — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:09:40 GMT

This could happen for any application installation packages that merge the VC8 MSMs. There are two separate MSMs for each assembly, however: a payload MSM and a policy MSM. Generally, you should not include the policy MSM because it will redirect all applications. If you do, make sure it is merged after the payload MSM and you should be fine. 'tis better to have the payload and no publisher policy, than to have the publisher policy redirecting to non-existent assemblies. While we did test out-of-space scenarios it just didn't occur at the right time.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

feto — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:27:23 GMT

Is it possible that it installs but the SP1 is not seen in the add/remove programs? even after clicking the show updates, i cannot see it. i do not recall any errors generated either.

this sp1 breaks our build, i need to uninstall it but do not know how.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Heath Stewart — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:52:30 GMT

feta, it should show up in ARP. You can pass /uninstall to the EXE you downloaded.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

feto — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:23:28 GMT

ok, was able to install again and uninstalled it using what you have suggested. Turns out the build/release is broken because of the x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.762_x-ww_6b128700

stuff. How do I ensure that this is on the target system? Doing an xcopy to the WinSxS directory ot where I install the software? We are using NSIS for our installer.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Heath Stewart — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:15:11 GMT

feto, I'm not sure I follow what you're asking. If you have uninstalled it, you've run into the same problem that those files are protected by WPF/WRP. You need to install SP1 for the new CRT to be available that devenv.exe and other executables require, as well as distribute the VC runtime (use the redists mentioned in the blog post, or use the non-policy_* MSMs to merge into Windows Installer-based setups) along with your applications built in VS 2005 SP1. Read http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/02/08/mailbag-does-an-application-built-in-vs-2005-sp1-require-deploying-the-sp1-vc-runtime-files.aspx for more details on the latter.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Anders — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:00:40 GMT

Hi Heath, great blog you got here.

I've installed the service pack on two machines now, in both cases successfully. I have, however, noticed that afterwards several other programs crashes. Adobe Illustrator crashes when deleting a word in a text (pressing backspace). ULead Mediastudio crashes when moving the pointer around in a video, and Norton crashes during startup. Since my computer installations are almost similar, and started crashing at the same time, I have a mounting suspicion of this service pack. Does this make sense at all, or am I looking at the wrong reasons for my crashes?

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Heath Stewart — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:35:20 GMT

Anders, the VC team does a lot of regression testing on VC, which is the likely culprit. That said, it isn't impossible to think that could be causing problems. Unfortunately, it's difficult to say. Since you have VS installed, you should be seeing a crash dialog that gives you an opportunity to debug the application. When you attempt to, you can create a crash dump file and send it to the appropriate software manufacturers.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Argh — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:29:58 GMT

This SP1 is a TOTAL LOAD OF CRAP! Man, that's typically Microsoft.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

donoho — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:32:30 GMT

Out of the many presented/researched solutions, installing the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\BootStrapper\Packages\vcredist_x86\vcredist_x86.exe (file version 2.0.50727.762) from a successfully updated VS 2005 system onto a rolled back system seemed to be the most painless route. Only time will tell if stability will be an issue.

Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 Setup Troubleshooting Guide

Aaron Stebner's WebLog — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:35:44 GMT

Where to get Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Where to download the .NET Framework 2.0 redistributable

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Mark Guthrie — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:54:31 GMT

I also ran out of disk space during the SP1 install and ASP.NET 2.0 wasn't operational after the rollback. The ASP.NET tab that allows choosing the framework version was even missing from IIS.

I got the Error 25007 when trying to repair the .NET 2.0 framework per the instructions on KB908077.

Removing the files mentioned in VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU-msi.0.log file with the lines "This following file was not removed, because it is protected by Windows" fixed my problem.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

wale azeez — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:06:48 GMT

my machine starts to whine when i am running the service pack. Any solution to this?

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

dave@hollycompany.com — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:03:00 GMT

If you find any answers, please advise. Thanks, D Holly

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

sam — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:11:24 GMT

Hi,

I'm having a strange problem while installing VS.NET 2005 Professional. I installed it many months ago on my system and it installed smoothly. But, now, after upgrading my system, i formatted my hard drive and installed everything freshly.

But, now, when i try to install VS.NET 2005 from the same DVD, it gives the message that _14310_VC80_PDB_WINSXS_CRT_x86.msm file is corrupted or not being read from CD/DVD. Well, i did not receive such message when i installed last time. So, it's confusing for me. I checked my DVD. All files are ok. I even copied complete setup files to my hard drive and they also copied fine. However, when i try to install VS 2005 from my had drive, it still shows the same message and if i click ignore or any button, it stops installation.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Heath Stewart — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:43:12 GMT

sam, have you checked if the DVD is scratched or anything? You might try this in another machine if you can, or another disk (like if this is part of an MSDN Subscription) in the same machine.

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Dunk — Sat, 05 May 2007 05:38:15 GMT

Any idea exactly how much space you need to avoid a 2908?

I have 1.4 gig on my C: drive, and it still pops up.

Until I sort this, all my apps are now dead :(

re: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Rollback Breaks Some Applications

Heath Stewart — Mon, 07 May 2007 10:26:19 GMT

Dunk, the space required on your system drive is documented for each SP on the download page for that SP package.