Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Visual Studio 2008 Installation Follow-up

analysis
Dec 26, 20071 min

I wrote on Sunday about my week-long, beyond-weird troubles installing Visual Studio 2008: lack of Internet bandwidth, lost shipments, defective DVDs, and generally bad installation karma. On Monday, things looked up. Two packages that had been missing showed up at my office door, merely delayed by the Christmas shipping rush, and not lost. One was a retail package of Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite, and it instal

I wrote on Sunday about my week-long, beyond-weird troubles installing Visual Studio 2008: lack of Internet bandwidth, lost shipments, defective DVDs, and generally bad installation karma.

On Monday, things looked up. Two packages that had been missing showed up at my office door, merely delayed by the Christmas shipping rush, and not lost. One was a retail package of Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite, and it installed almost perfectly.

The other was a burned DVD-R of a VSTS/TFS Virtual PC. It didn’t install: there was a CRC error in the last of 7 large files. However, I was able to copy the 6 good files from this DVD to a file server, and then add the 7th file from a previous copy of this DVD that had CRC errors in other files. Once I had a complete set assembled on a server, I was able to install the image with no problem, and run the image successfully in Microsoft Virtual PC.

I’ll be rolling up my sleeves this week and diving into the review.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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