Vs setup msi could not be opened 2008

Thanks a lot. So i went through all entries and watched out for the Visual Studio entry and renamed that registry-folder entry. Finally i can repair the installation. It's incredible how Microsoft-software is full of errors and problems. Ken's Blog. Tuesday, February How to fix this problem any clue. I was running into the same problem with Tried to reapply SP1 failed.

Couldn't uninstall it. Installed and everything worked correctly after that. The Key for VS worked for me Good Guy. Comments are closed. March 14th, With the release They are needed when applying patches containing binary delta patches to individual files as opposed to whole-file updates, which are more common or when uninstalling patches. You can also try finding and uninstalling superseded patches.

Superseded patches are not actually uninstalled when superseded — they just become inactive. This way when all superseding patches are removed with respect to these superseded patches, those superseded patches become active again. You can even install patches in an initially superseded state for this very purpose.

I do have an example of detecting superseded patches using PowerShell with the Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions installed but there are other ways by calling the MsiEnumPatchesEx function or the PatchesEx metho d for script automation in your own applications or scripts.

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