Visual Studio 2008 surviving guide.
So you successfully installed Visual Studio 2008 and now you may have a few issues with the new editor. I've put together a list of problems you may find on your path to use it. I hope the list does not grow during the month, but if I find anything else I'll make sure to update this list. If you find any other issue, please make sure you bring it to my attention, via comment or email.
- Problem: Toolbox is grayed out.
- Shutdown VS2008, make sure dev.exe process is not running, then delete all .tdb files. When you open again Visual Studio 2008, you'll have to add again the controls on the toolbox again.
- Microsoft Silverlight tools alpha for VS2008 failed to reinstall.
- Visual Studio 2008 crashes at start up.
- People that upgraded from VS2005 to VS2008 also means that upgraded the add-ins, some of the add-ins won't work in the new IDE, so you'll have to start VS2008 in safemode. To do that you can go to: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\devenv /safemode" and you'll be about to disabled the add-in that causes the problem.
- Cannot uninstall Expression Web, fails on Web Authoring Component failure.
- Disable Windows Update during Visual Studio 2008 install.
- Disabling errors for JScript/CSS validation and show them only as warnings.
- Under options/Text Editor/HTML/Validation make sure to check the checkbox "as warnings" for HTML/CSS and JScript
- Package Load Failure.
- Project Creation Failed
- Update 12/16/07 Compatibility problem between VS 2008 and Office 2000 and how to fix it
Hope this helps many of you to find the solution to the issues you encounter after installing Visual Studio 2008 RTM.
Cheers
Al