Comments on: FIX: Rule “Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008″ failed.

By: SBSR

SBSR — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:41:02 +0000

Tnx a lot, very simple solution…..Thats fine

By: akshay

akshay — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:14:36 +0000

That was great and simple solution. Thanks paul

By: Enos

Enos — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:32:29 +0000

@David Davis Thanks alot man. worked like a charm!

By: Enos

Enos — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:00:57 +0000

Thanks Paul!

By: Duy Nguyen

Duy Nguyen — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:13:08 +0000

Thank you.

By: David Davis

David Davis — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:14:52 +0000

If you are trying to install SQL-2008 and you also have visual studio 2008 installed with service pack one (SP1) and get the error

“A previous release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is installed on this computer. Upgrade Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to the SP1 before installing SQL Server 2008”

Then welcome to the Microsoft beta testing program even if you purchased the faulty software.

With XP the most common solution seem to be renaming the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DevDiv\VS\Servicing\9.0
And replacing ‘9.0’ with ‘9.0Old’ however this does not solve the problem if you are using windows 7 and the only solution I managed to find that worked was to uninstall VS2008 and all the components and to then install SQL-2008 and finally reinstall VS2008.

By: Hasib

Hasib — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:03:27 +0000

Thanks

By: Nick Lewis

Nick Lewis — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:51:57 +0000

@Paul
Thanks Paul – been up till near 1am trying to get this thing to install. Now doing it…… bed in a minute…

By: Fayeq

Fayeq — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:23:22 +0000

Thanks a Lot!

By: Rasha

Rasha — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:17:01 +0000

Hi many many many THX to you
you are a life saver