Azure Tools for VSTS 2010

Question

As per the system requirements, Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio May 2009 CTP supports VS 2010 Beta 1


But I am gettting the following message while trying to install:

Installation Requirements:

Visual Studio 2008 is currently installed but this product requires Service Pack 1. Please install SP1 and try again.

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 requires the Visual Web Developer feature to be installed in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Standard or above).



Mine is Windows 7 RC and have some components of VS 2008 installed(may be as part of SQL or other SDK). I do not want to install VS 2008 and SP1 as I have VSTS 2010 beta alreay installed and working. Is there any fix for this???

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G K

Answer 1

You may need to follow the installation instructions here . From your errors, the installer is looking for Visual Web Developer. Of course, the first error message line may be misleading but there's still an underlying dependency error that you need to resolve. Perhaps, your IIS/WCF Http Activation are not yet enabled. Try follow the installation instructions and we'll see if it helps.
 

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Answer 2

I have met all the system requirements explained in that link and followed the same process. 

One thing I remember now, my VSTS 2010 is a web installation. May be if I do a repair or change, it may help. I have now the VSTS 2010 ISO, but the thing is Windows 7 does not allow me to install any MSI and always gives an error that the Windows Installer is busy or not accessible. The installer service is running, but the options to stop/restart seems to be disabled though I am an Admin. This problem I posted in Windows 7 forum and waiting for some response.

If I could repair or change VSTS 2010, I believe the problem will be solved because on a virtual PC having Windows 2008 and VSTS beta 1, I could install Azure tools with out any issue. That means the vsts 2010 web installation and/or Windows 7 is having some problems  :)

Will try and update once my Windows Installer problem gets solved

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G K

Answer 3

my update:

My Windows Installer issue was not solved. So I could not change/repair VSTS installation.  As I was in a hurry,  I rolled back to my previous OS where I did fresh installation of VSTS 2010 beta1 (not web installation) and then Azure got installed successfully

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G K

Answer 4

Hi G K.


   If you have VS 2008 installed, you need to have VS 2008 SP1 installed and the "visual web developer feature" for VS 2008 enabled on your machine for the tools to install (even if you have VS2010 installed). 

   We are going to loosen this in a future release, so if you have VS 2010 installed then it will install just the VS 2010 bits even if VS 2008 is not configured properly.

Thanks,
Sung Hon

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Sung Hon

Answer 5

Hi G K,

   Could you explain what you meant by some components of VS 2008 are installed?  Did you actually have VS 2008 installed or VS 2008 shell?

Sung Hon

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Sung Hon

Answer 6

Hi Sung Hon,

Thanks for the reply.

VS 2008 and its SP1 not seems to be a pre-requisite when we target for VS 2010 beta. As I mentioned in my reply earlier, I could install Azure Tools in another system which does not have VS 2008 but have VS 2010 beta 1(installed from ISO).

But in the first case , Aure Tools installation failed because it could not detect VS 2010 beta1 (though it was installed) and I was not having VS 2008 installed.  So in this case, the problem seems to be with VSTS 2010 web installation.

And by "some components of VS 2008" I meant part of VS that get installed with SQL server and other SDKs

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G K

Answer 7

Forgot to mention. The MSI issue is resolved and the same is updated here:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/GettingReadyforWindows7/thread/0251ac8d-0cc5-4414-b28e-21cb6c2f5a71

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G K

Answer 8

One of the behaviors we have today is that if you have any part of VS 2008 installed, we require all of the pre-requisites to be installed before proceeding with the install of the Windows Azure Tools -- including if you have a full VS 2010 Beta 1 installed. (SP1, Visual Web Developer feature)

The opposite is not true.  If you are missing pre-requisite components for VS 2010 (i.e. the Visual Web Developer feature) we will warn you about that but not block on installing for VS 2008.

I know this is confusing and we are working to improve this moving forward.

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Jim Nakashima, Microsoft. (This post is provided "as-is")