KB944899 Should be Removed before Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

re: KB944899 Should be Removed before Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

willdean — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:21:39 GMT

It sometimes feels that VS + .NET FX are in a death-spiral of an ever-increasing prevalence of this sort of issue.

Getting VS2008 to run on a machine which was only 2 months old but had had VS2008 B2 on it was an epic task. I can't even face the prospect of SP1-Beta, because I know it will screw-up the installation of SP1-RTM.

Is there serious concern within MS about these problems and that all the evidence points to them being un-containable? (http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/ would have nothing much to write about if divdev could write installers which worked...)

It's slightly gratifying that even MS developers clearly can't understand how MSI is supposed to work, but only slightly.

It's actually pretty depressing given how strong the pressure to use it is on the rest of us.

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KB944899

Random Debugging Goodies - (Jackson Davis's Blog) — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:30:13 GMT

When installing Visual Studio 2008 Sp1 Beta1, you may encounter an error that you must first remove KB944899

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

greggm's WebLog — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:11:28 GMT

In case you missed it, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta has been released: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=CF99C752-1391-4BC3-BABC-86BC0B9E8E5A&displaylang=en

re: KB944899 Should be Removed before Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

insta — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:42:55 GMT

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Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

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Error occurs installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta if KB944899 is installed.

Your Websites, Our Passion! — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:01:05 GMT

If you have the first release of KB945140 installed on your system you may run across an error when trying

Upgrading to Silverlight Tools Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has just been released! Checkout http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/   Silverlight

Upgrading to Silverlight Tools Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

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silverlight 2 beta 2 does not work with VS 2008 sp1 beta1

guangming — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:55:25 GMT

I have vs 2008 sp1 beta 1 installed first; then installed sl 2 beta 2 tools.

VS can not create a sl project: load package error; could not load type "micorsoft.visualstudio.web.silverlight.IVsSilverlightService from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Applicatio, version=9.0.0, .....'

re: KB944899 Should be Removed before Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Heath Stewart — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:37:51 GMT

guangming, this seems to be a known issue with how SL might have been installed. Please read http://silverlight.net/forums/t/15859.aspx for tips on getting back to a good working state.

re: KB944899 Should be Removed before Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Sam Gentile — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:01:27 GMT

Cleanup tool does *not* work. It asks for the VS2008 disk which I provide and then does not accept the disk (says file not there)

re: KB944899 Should be Removed before Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Heath Stewart — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:39:21 GMT

Sam, if you are prompted for source when running the uninstall tool (aka , "preparation tool") please note the title of the dialog and provide the source for that product. If from the title you are not sure what MSI file it is, feel free to post it here in comments and I can help you.

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