As you may have seen from my previous post , I have just installed VS2008B2 onto my old work computer, well it is now time to hit my Vista laptop with it:
I just tried to install Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit on my Vista laptop, but it failed on the first hurdle; installing the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2
After an hour of searching the web for answers and trying about three different options, finding about ten more, and getting increasingly frustrated, I gave up for a while…
On my second attempt I managed to find a solution: I switched to trying to install the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 on its own because it starts quicker than the full Visual Studio install process.
The Solution
In order to install the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 on Vista I had to uninstall some previously installed Hotfixes using these instructions:
1. Open the Control Panel, select Programs & Features, click on the “View installed updates” located on the Tasks pane. Select and uninstall the following Windows updates:
- Hotfix for Microsoft Windows (KB110806)
- Hotfix for Microsoft Windows (KB930264)
- Hotfix for Microsoft Windows (KB929300)
2. Reboot
3. Reattempts installing .NET Framework 3.5.
I did however find more that one hotfix with the same KB number, so I got rid of them both.
After this I tried VS2008 again…
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