Installation and Setup

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

Light1 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:37:25 GMT

Thanks, but reinstalling Visual Studio isnt really an option :-/ I resorted to just installing the Silverlight SDK, and that seems to have done the trick for now.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

ihayesjr — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:28:00 GMT

Light1,

I am not sure how much more details you would like other then my previous post. I had to basically uninstall all of Visual Studio with Revo Uninstaller and install it all over again.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

amyd — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:06:45 GMT

A heads up on Revo Uninstaller or the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility - they are using msizap which isn't a true uninstall and can cause some issues - so make this your last resort. (see http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2008/04/22/msizap-is-not-uninstall.aspx for more info).

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

kwatts — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:51:58 GMT

Great! I'm looking forward to checking it out.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

Light1 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:43:30 GMT

ihayesjr:
So I have resolved my problem with the installer looking for a different version of Visual Studio SP1 mentioned earlier in this thread.

I had to fix it the hard way.

Could you maybe give a few details on what you did to resolve this?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

ihayesjr — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:13:33 GMT

So I have resolved my problem with the installer looking for a different version of Visual Studio SP1 mentioned earlier in this thread.

I had to fix it the hard way.

So what I have found was that I was still unable to uninstall any part of Visual Studio without the error "The installation source for this product is unavailable...."

So I used a program called Revo Uninstaller. It performs the same actions as the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility but it also removes the directories and all registry keys.

I also found that I had to use the utility on other programs, installed by Visual Studio, like the Office Runtime and a couple of others I don't remember the name of.

So after everything was removed, I installed Visual Studio, installed Service Pack 1 which directed me to a patch on the web that removed some other part of Visual Studio before I could install the service pack.

Then I was able to install Silverlight 2 Beta without the error.

So the last problem I do have is that it has affected my Office 2007 installation. Every time I close Word or Excel I get a installer launched that fails. This is the error in the Event Viewer Log.

Event Type: Information

Event Source: MsiInstaller

Event Category: None

Event ID: 11708

Date: 8/21/2008

Time: 11:27:30 PM

User:

Computer:

Description:

Product: Microsoft Office Shared MUI (English) 2007 -- Installation failed.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:

0000: 7b 39 30 31 32 30 30 30 {9012000

0008: 30 2d 30 30 36 45 2d 30 0-006E-0

0010: 34 30 39 2d 30 30 30 30 409-0000

0018: 2d 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 -0000000

0020: 46 46 31 43 45 7d FF1CE}

So I am going to try and repair MS Office 2007 to see if this resolves this problem.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

Light1 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:30:26 GMT

Tnx for the quick response. I tried extracting the silverlight_chainer.exe and just installing VS90SP1-KB955214.msp - received the following alert:

"The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct upgrade patch."

Our build machine is a VM (Virtual PC) - WinXP Pro SP3. We did a default install from the TFS Installation media. No previous VS2008 Beta's or Service packs were applied prior to installing VS2008SP1 RTM.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

amyd — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:45:45 GMT

We are still investigating what's going on here. We think there might be something unusual going on with the SP1 installation, but not sure just yet. Can you tell me a little bit more about the machine you're having problems with? (OS? How did you install VS and SP1? ISO? Did you burn a disc or mount a virtual drive?)

In the meantime, one thing you can try is extracting the patch required by SP1 from the chainer by running

silverlight_chainer.exe /x

from the command line.

Then install VS90SP1-KB955214.msi

Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

Light1 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:51:10 GMT

Did anyone get to the bottom of this? I am having pretty much the same problem on our build server. VS2008SP1 installed fine: In Help -> About it shows the following: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Version 9.0.30729.1 SP Microsoft .NET Framework Version 3.5 SP1. But when trying to install Silverlight Tools Beta 2 Refresh I get the following error: "Build 9.0.30718.XX of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 must be installed before installation can continue." The File Version of the silverlight_chainer.exe which i have is 9.0.30729.10. This all worked fine on my dev box...

Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

jamlew — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:36:43 GMT

SKurdakov:

So the question - when it will be possible to use Silverlight with VSExpress SP1 ?

When Silverlight RTW comes out.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

jamlew — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:35:30 GMT

cjlotz:

The problem might be related to the fact that only the reason for VS 2008 being installed on the server is for TFS Client acces, i.e. only the VS 2008 Standard Edition Shell is installed. We don't require the Silverlight for VS 2008 Tools but only the Silverlight SDK to compile the Silverlight assemblies. We use TeamCity for our CI builds so we don't require the full VS 2008 to be installed.

This worked fine for the previous silverlight chainer installer. If the only update in the new silverlight chainer is the Silverlight tools integration for VS then I suppose we can work around the problem by still installing the previous silverlight chainer? I tried it, and it seems to work fine.

Thanks

The only thing outside of the SDK that you might need, is the build task DLL and targets file for Web Applications. It's in the VS patch because it ships in VS and we need it in the patch for servicing reasons (hence, not in the SDK). It's under Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications on a 32-bit OS, or Program Files(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v9.0\WebApplications on a 64-bit OS. You can copy these from a dev machine to your TFS build machine. If you're not using Web App projects, this shouldn't be an issue.

Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

SKurdakov — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:35:08 GMT

There was a rumor that VSExpress SP1 will work with Silverlight sdk.

Just installed visual studio express sp1 but silverlight_chainer won't install.

So the question - when it will be possible to use Silverlight with VSExpress SP1 ?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

cjlotz — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:06:56 GMT

The problem might be related to the fact that only the reason for VS 2008 being installed on the server is for TFS Client acces, i.e. only the VS 2008 Standard Edition Shell is installed. We don't require the Silverlight for VS 2008 Tools but only the Silverlight SDK to compile the Silverlight assemblies. We use TeamCity for our CI builds so we don't require the full VS 2008 to be installed.

This worked fine for the previous silverlight chainer installer. If the only update in the new silverlight chainer is the Silverlight tools integration for VS then I suppose we can work around the problem by still installing the previous silverlight chainer? I tried it, and it seems to work fine.

Thanks

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

cjlotz — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:27:59 GMT

amyd

My installation steps where as follows:

Ran the Patch Removal Tool
Uninstalled Silverlight, Silverlight SDK and Silverlight Tools for VS 2008
Ran the VS 2008 SP1 installation. I used the iso download
Ran the TFS 2008 SP1
Ran the Silverlight Installer

Here is the info from the About dialog in VS 2008:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Version 9.0.30729.1 SP
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 3.5 SP1

Installed Edition: Standard

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer
Version 9.0.30729.1

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU (KB945282) KB945282
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945282.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU (KB946040) KB946040
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946040.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU (KB946308) KB946308
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946308.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU (KB946344) KB946344
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946344.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU (KB946581) KB946581
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946581.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU (KB947173) KB947173
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947173.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU (KB947540) KB947540
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947540.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU (KB947789) KB947789
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (integrated mode) - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947789.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU (KB946260) KB946260
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946260.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU (KB946458) KB946458
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946458.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU (KB947171) KB947171
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947171.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU (KB947180) KB947180
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947180.

Hotfix for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU (KB948816) KB948816
This hotfix is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this hotfix will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948816.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB945140) KB945140
This service pack is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this service pack will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945140.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU Service Pack 1 (KB949786) KB949786
This service pack is for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build - ENU.
If you later install a more recent service pack, this service pack will be uninstalled automatically.
For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949786.

Microsoft Web Deployment Projects 2008 00000
Microsoft Web Deployment Projects 2008
Version 9.0.21022

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: New Silverlight_Chainer.exe availability for VS2008 SP1 RTM?

amyd — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:04:04 GMT

cjlotz, is your installation of SP1 the released version? That dialog *should* say 9.0.30729.XX is required.

How was your Visual Studio and SP1 installed? Did you download and run the installer? Or did you use the ISO?

Have you ever had any previous installations of Silverlight Tools? Can you make sure that KB955214, KB950630, and KB949325 are all removed?