- Posted by karthik on April 14, 2009
Why is it that service pack installs for Visual Studio 200X are ALMOST never, ever pain-free?
It's tempting to say it is a Microsoft Trademark that they make you go through a process that 15 minutes into an install, prompts you to CONFIRM that you REALLY, REALLY want to do this... As if you did not know what you were doing while going through the 15 steps on the install wizard before that prompt came up.
And when you say YES dammit, it then runs for another 20 minutes only to find out:
- that the space on the hard drive it needs to install is not enough OR..
- that there is a dependency check on an unrelated set of dll's, service packs or whatever that stops the installation and prompts you to go get that OR...
- that the current windows installer does not like the setup files that came from the media OR....
- anything else that drives you nuts waiting in front of the screen...
Sounds familiar? Well thats how my SQL Server 2008 install went last weekend...
For those who are trying to do this, a word of advice: make sure you have VS 2008 SP1 installed FIRST, then make sure you have ALL the right framework patches installed BEFORE you get to SQL!