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This is basically where I write down stuff that I work with at my job as a GIS Technical Analyst (previously system administrator). I do it because it's practical for documentation purposes (although, I remove stuff that might be a security breach) and I hope it can be of use to someone out there. I frequently search the net for help myself, and this is my way of contributing.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Installing Visual Studio 2010 (and SQL Server 2008 Express) on non-English Windows 7 x64

I'm running a Norwegian installation of Windows 7 and a few days ago I decided to install the standard edition of Visual Studio 2010. The whole installation went fine except for SQL Server Express 2008. For some reason it did not want to install. I used to have english Windows 7, so I immediately suspected that it was language related.

The log for Visual Studio installer file on: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional - ENU\Logs\dd_error_vs_procore_100.txt

listed the following:
[09/26/11,00:07:03] Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Service Pack 1 (x64): [2] Error code -2067922940 for this component is not recognized.
[09/26/11,00:07:03] Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Service Pack 1 (x64): [2] Component Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Service Pack 1 (x64) returned an unexpected value.
[09/26/11,00:07:04] VS70pgui: [2] DepCheck indicates Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Service Pack 1 (x64) is not installed.



Checking SQL Servers own install log on C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Setup Bootstrap\Log had a little more information - among other the following:

The performance counter registry hive is corrupted. To continue, you must repair the performance counter registry hive. For more information, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956.

The KB lists a long tedious procedure involving dozens of registry deletions and copying files from the Windows installation media. I did go through it, but it did not do any good.

The next thing I did helped however. I grabbed the latest Windows 2008 R2 express x64 (wSP1) from Microsoft and installed it. Voila! Visual Studio works like a charm.

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