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I'm sorry but it's totally unacceptable that after spending a long time downloading and installing SP1 and then pointing it to my VS08 Install source, that it aborts with a "Can't find MSI" and goes on unrolling EVERYTHING and not ask me again for the source!

You are only fueling the voices at work who want to stop paying for yearly MSDN accounts when you fail the utmost basic user experience.

Why, oh why, does it need 5GB free space on the windows partition when my MS VS is on the other drive? Time to do some deleting just to find out it doesn't really need any space after the instalation finishes...

Hi Jacek,

which VS product and especially which language of the product do you have installed? The error says it can't find the ENU (englich us) version of Team Suite. If you installed another language you need to download the according SP1 for that language. Above the downloads there is a filter row where you can select the language. Default was english for me which installed just flawlessly on my english VS2008.

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SvenC

This also doesn't change the fact that the installer didn't ask me again to provide the correct version (which I had already done!).

I can't believe it is that hard for Microsoft to bring up a dialog box that says "Invalid installation files found, Please try again".

Is there a standalone download for SP1 RTM, not web based?

Spent a day trying to install - we commonly clean disks so old install source is not available - this is way too hard to install - any hints?

Sven, the machine was fairly clean. There was no beta/hotfixes.

The thing is, it didn't like the MSI from a DVD, yet when I copied the DVD to the original location it asked for (\\somewhere\deep\path), it worked the second time without prompting for the MSI.

I also agree with other commenters that needing the original source is annoying. Again Microsoft, we're in 2008, not 1998.

Just because we as developers can be super techies doesn't mean we should go thru a worse experience than a regular Joe has with XP/Vista.

Does the service pack brink TR1 to Visual C++ Express edition?

The VC90 CRT and MFC .msm files (Microsoft_VC90_MFC_x86.msm and Microsoft_VC90_CRT_x86.msm) don't get updated in the "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules" folder if the modified date of the file is different to the original installed version.  

The date can be changed if you use Orca to check the contents of a .msm file.

Deleteing the old .msm file and running the SP1 install wizard again will update the file.

where is Visual C++ feature pack offline documentation?

As Ayman Shoukry in <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/04/22/visual-c-2008-feature-pack-refresh.aspx#8419480">this</a> post told, feature pack offline documentation will be available in VS2008 sp1.

Should I download a separate file for sp1 documentation?

Not only did I see it installing options I'd chosen not to install in the Visual Studio setup, when it rebooted I found my administrator account trashed.  I've rolled back but found that now I have to reinstall .NET (again).  

I'd just managed to get a clean, error free, install of .NET thru 3.5 before installing this service pack.  Now, even after system restore, I couldn't repair, remove, or reinstall any version of .NET without a third party remover.  Oh well, back to Windows Update to reinstall all the .NETs and then again for their service packs and then back to reinstall Visual Studio.  I think I'll forget the service pACKK this time!

BTW - Every time I install VS I get these errors in my application log:

Product: Windows Presentation Foundation -- Error 2004. Method GetFontCacheDataFolder failed.  HRESULT: 0x80004005

Product: Windows Presentation Foundation -- Error 2004. Method SHGetFolderPath failed.  HRESULT: 0x80004005.

It's amusing to read all the comments because nothing has changed within DevDiv. It's about time that some heads roll.

I haven't even bothered installing SP1.

Could someone please tell me how to install "Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack" with SP1? I have installed SP1 but cannot find out "Standard C++ Library TR1 Extensions Reference" from the Documentation. Thanks!

[William Yang]

> Could someone please tell me how to install "Visual

> C++ 2008 Feature Pack" with SP1? I have installed

> SP1 but cannot find out "Standard C++ Library TR1

> Extensions Reference" from the Documentation.

The Feature Pack is integrated into SP1. For the documentation, see cwoods's comment above.

[Steve]

> 3) Explicitly state that there is no new TR1

> documentation in the service pack (or make it

> easier to find if it's included). It's the only

> reason I installed it over the beta sp1 ;-).

SP1 Final contains 16 TR1 fixes not present in SP1 Beta; see http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/08/11/tr1-fixes-in-vc9-sp1.aspx .  (And it contains one nasty regression; see the comments.)

@marc: try if deleting temporary internet files does help. I had the problem that a broken download was cached and the broken content was used when I tried to download again. I think pressing <ctrl> while clicking on the link should also avoid the cache but I am not absolutely sure.

If that does not work: try an alternative web browser.

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SvenC

Marc, I did download the new MSDN SP1 library from the MSDN subscribers area a few days ago. So I used their download manager (File Transfer Manager) which worked for me.

If you paste the download URL you use, I will try how it works for me.

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SvenC

@Marc: the download works flawlessly here. I have only 100kb/s due to company network bandwidth restrictions. So I stopped after a few seconds which brought me to about 6MB of downloaded data.

Are you sitting behind a proxy? I remember that we had problems with an older version of our proxy but that was over a year ago, so I have no details anymore.

Could you try the download on another machine or from a different (direct) network location?

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SvenC

update:

At my office I seem unable to download files over 2GB.

I tried the same download at home, no problem! :-)

Why does VC++ create a <projname>.exe.embed.manifest file, when the compiler is seeking a <projname>.exe.intermediate.manifest file ?

Is that a known bug ?