I was overjoyed today to be able to install the RTM edition of "Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition", the new IDE by Microsoft, via MSDN.

My happiness was quickly gone when I learned the setup failed :(

When I saw that, after crashing, the setup program was still running, I discovered the following window

To bad the link provided wasn't all that helpful. I guess I'll try and re-install my machine and try again...

Update 9:18 PM 21st of November 2007:

After sulking for a while, I decided that I wanted to check some things before reinstalling my operating system. After looking thru my Software List, I found that the .NET framework 3.0 was still installed. Since the setup failed at the .NET framework 3.5, I decided to uninstall that framework.

After uninstalling the .NET framework 3.0, I decided to give it another go.

As you can see, the setup now tells me that there is too little free space on the C drive. There wasn't a problem the first time around, so there probably was little over the required space available on the C drive at time of the install, but due to temp files, that space is no longer available. Just to be sure, I cleaned up a bit from my (small) C drive (WDC Raptor 36GB) and gave it another go.

The setup is still installing, and so far, so good. My advice to you: Uninstall the .NET 3.0 framework before installing the new Visual Studio 2008 IDE and make sure you have a surplus of free space on your C drive.

Update 9:43 PM 21st of November 2007:

Install was sucessful, but here's another bug for you in the installer:

As you can see, there result of the first (failed) attempt is shown here, not at the first install.

dd_error_vs_vstdcore_90.txt

[11/21/07,19:46:26] Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5: [2] Error code 1603 for this component means "Fatal error during installation.
"
[11/21/07,19:46:26] Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5: [2] Setup Failed on component Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 is not installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Document Explorer 2008 was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition - ENU was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP2 was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system (version 3.0 Runtime) was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Runtime was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Design Tools was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 For Devices was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Pocket PC was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Smartphone was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Device Emulator version 3.0 was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 Tools (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 Headers and Libraries (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 Win32 Tools (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 .NET Framework Tools (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio 2008 SDK Reference Assemblies and IntelliSense (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Performance Collection Tools (x86) was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008 was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,19:46:26] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Publishing Wizard was not attempted to be installed.
[11/21/07,20:49:49] VS70pgui: [2] The following volumes do not have enough disk space for the installation:
***EndOfSession***

dd_install_vs_vstdcore_90.txt

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