I have Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate and I've downloaded the Visual Studio 2012 ISO from MSDN.
When trying to install the documentation:
I open Visual Studio as an Administrator
Follow these instructions as per the install's ReadMe file
On the menu bar for Visual Studio 2012, choose Help, Add and Remove
Help Content.
Help Viewer 2.0 starts, showing the Manage Content tab.
On the Manage Content tab, choose the Disk option button, choose the
Browse (…) button, and then navigate to the DVD drive.
Choose the helpcontentsetup.msha file, and then choose the Open button.
Under Available Documentation, the list of available content sets from the
DVD appears.
Choose the Add link next to the content set that you want
to install onto your local computer.
The items that you specify appear
in the Pending Changes column. You can remove an item from the Pending
Changes column by choosing the “X” next to the item.
Choose the Update button.
And click Update.
When I click Update, it progresses for about 3-4 seconds, and then it fails with an error:
The following errors occurred while performing the requested tasks:
An error occurred while updating content. You have insufficient
privileges to complete this task.
How can I resolve this issue?
Update
I'm running Help Viewer in Admin mode.
try this. It solved my problem.
change security permission of vs2012doc.iso to full control for your account.
Mount it
Install the documentation ONE BY ONE. Remember ONE BY ONE.
Might it help...
Change your machine date and try again. In my case work with "oct/01/2012".
This was using the Visual Studio 2013 but is likely to be similar to the help of Visual Studio 2012 and probably 2015. I have not tried it so you tell me.
I got the ISO with the help of vs2013 to Microsoft directly. Now I do not remember the address so I did not put it here. It is very easy to get around with google looking for.
When I'm using the Microsoft Help Viewer 2.1 with local installation way I get an error: Insufficient Privileges and not the books are installed.
What I will describe is possible for you to do so more easily. But I could not validate it and then they describe the steps I followed to do so.
The first thing I did was copy the entire contents of the ISO to a folder on my HDD for my comfort my case was in C:\T
With the command prompt navigate to the folder where it was copied from the iso content and the C:\T\Packagesrun the following winrar t * .cab
This causes a test winrar make all cab files and protest whenever any of them is corrupt.
This was to score those files that had to go down again, in my case only had a .cab file with problems
v2Visual_Studio_2011_NET_Framework_4_B1545_VS_100_en-us_13(b0ba5cce-2b72-f582-80f3-8a6165ef6b9b).cab
The following was download it directly from Microsoft in this direction,
http://packages.mtps.microsoft.com/v2Visual_Studio_2011_NET_Framework_4_B1545_VS_100_en-us_13(b0ba5cce-2b72-f582-80f3-8a6165ef6b9b).cab
All other packages I think are there too.
The next thing was to replace the damaged file with the new and final step is to go into the folder where the files of the Visual Studio Help are, in my case I always use to put this folder in a comfortable place for me.
D:\VS_2012_2013_HLP\VisualStudio12
Inside this folder there are other two \Incoming\Cab, we must ensure that the cab folder is completely empty.
The last thing is to enter the Microsoft Help Viewer 2.1 and say that the new power plant is one where we copy the contents of the ISO (D:\T\helpcontentsetup.msha). The rest is just install the books ..
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I tried to install Visual Studio 2012 . but it showing me "Unable to locate package source" I can select "Download from the internet" or "Provide a location to search for the packages" And this is path that comes up:
C:\Users\JA\Download\packages\vcRuntimeDebug_amd64\cab1.cab
(the 'packages' folder does not exists) When I select to download from the internet its showing up again after some time, I searched for "vcRuntimeDebug_amd64" folder but it doesn't contain "cab1.cab" file ;/
Note please, that i runned setup file as administrator and i disable firewall .
I had the same problem but with Windows Phone 8 SDK. I tried several things (which are detailed below, in my previous answer), and the best option was to download the ISO, found in the Install Instructions section:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=35471
After finishing, it said it couldn't download that runtime, but at least the emulator is running fine. I guess you could manually download that runtime
afterwards if you have any problems. Here's the link:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=30679
Previous attempts:
I downloaded the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 to see if that way the installer skipped that step, but it didn't work.
Then I looked for cab1.cab in my disk and found it in several folders, being this one the one that worked:
C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\{CF2BEA3C-26EA-32F8-AA9B-331F7E34BA97}v11.0.61030\packages\vcRuntimeMinimum_amd64
Of course that GUID will be different in your case, so you should look for a vcRuntimeMinimum_amd64 folder.
Inside that folder was not only the cab1.cab but also a vc_runtimeMinimum_x64.msi file. When I told the installer to use that folder, it still didn't work. Then I chose "Browse" but when I opened that folder it didn't show any file because the installer was looking for vcRuntimeMinimum_x64 (without the underscore). I typed "." in the textbox so it showed all the files, I chose vc_runtimeMinimum_x64.msi and the installation continued. It took a while but it worked.
Later I had the same issue with sdk_tools35res.cab. I told the installer to use v3.11.50727\packages\sdk_tools35res\sdk_tools35res.msi and the process continued.
But in the end, I got three errors: Tools for .Net 3.5, MS VC++ runtime and .NET 4.5 SDK. So then I decided to download the ISO.
Whenever i press Ctrl+S from keyboard or whenever i click on any file in Solution Explorer it automatically opens output window only in Visual Studio 2012.
I tried
Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Show output window when build starts
I am using Visual Studio Professional 2012
But its just not working. Its irritates a lot. Please suggest how to get rid of it.
if someone is facing this issue in visual studio community 2015, in my case the issue was caused because of the use of Backup and sync utility from google, I have synced my source directory to my google drive to maintain the latest copy of source backed up.
The backup utility locks the file which you might be editing for syncing it to cloud storage. since the file is locked by another process, the visual studio cannot save the changes in the file.
The fix was to pause the syncing for the time you are doing frequent changes.
In your case, it might be some other process which might be locking the file.
If you're using an extension, one of them could be the reason.
I had the same problem while saving the CMakeLists.txt files. I checked one of the extension's setting, "CMake Tools", it has a "Cmake: Reveal Log" settings which causing this problem. I simply deactivated it
I suggest you to check extensions' settings or try to find on settings with searching "output", "focus" etc.
I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2012 Express for Windows Desktop and every time I run the installer I get this error:
"Windows Program Compatibility mode is on. Turn it off and then try setup again."
I checked the file properties and compatibility mode was off. Googling found that changing the name to "vs_premium.exe" or "vs_ultimate.exe" or changing the registry keys might help, but the name changes had no effect, and there were no registry keys to delete. I have restarted my machine several times to no avail.
Changing to Visual Studio 2013 is not an option for me, as my work computer has Visual Studio 2012 on it which they will not update to 2013, and I need to work on my project on both computers.
The computer I am using has a Windows 8.1 HP Pavilion g6. I have installed Visual Studio 2013 for Windows Desktop, Web, and Windows, as well as the 30-day trial for Professional (which has recently expired). I have also installed Visual Studio 2012 for Windows Phone but I have not used it yet.
Previous posts are correct in that compatibility mode appears to be based entirely on file names. There is a simple method for determining precisely which name Windows expects:
Right-click the file, select Properties and navigate to the Details tab. There should be an entry labelled "Original filename". Simply rename the file accordingly and it should run happily.
Screenshot:
If you downloaded Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 at the same time and one was renamed with a "(0)" suffix (just as I did) then change the installer to the original name will probably fix it, because "somehow compatibility checking is based on file naming"
I just have to Rename the setup name. I rename the setup file to vs_ultimate and it worked.
In case you mounted it, first extract the content before you install. it worked for me.
Had the same issue installing vs_ultimate on Windows 10, It tells me to turn compatibility mode off which I didn't know to do. After reading all the solutions above without success, I was able to solve it on my own.
I mounted the .iso before installing which was giving me problem, but later as I extracted it into a desktop folder, it installed fine.
I couldn't find a solution, but I could find a workaround. I downloaded the offline installer (ISO) and ran that instead. It's not a solution, but it should work in this situation.
I ran into this problem and the solution for me was to rename the file back to its original name. I had downloaded it as "vs2012sdk_full.exe" but the original name was "vssdk_full.exe". When I ran it as "vs2012sdk_full.exe" I got the compatibility mode error. Once I renamed it back to the original "vssdk_full.exe" it worked.
Open The Run (Win+R) And type Services.msc.
Found Program Compatibility Assistant Service Then Disable Service and Stop it.
Open the Run (Win+R) And Type Gpedit.msc.
User configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Windows Components-->Application Compatibility
And check Enable button then restart system.
Run as administrator. And for my 2013 installer I renamed it to be
vs_professional.exe
And it worked.
In a round about way I discovered the problem on my system. Check the properties of the installer. Mine was blocked because it was downloaded from another system. Click unblock. Voila! If you can't find the location of the installer, run it again. When it fails, leave it running. Open task manager, right click the installer, then open file location. This will take you to the folder containing your installer.
mount the ISO file and run the setup as a from the disk.
I had the same issue, my solution was to run it in administrator mode and it seemed to work just fine.
Run as Administrator worked for me.
I had the same problem. I had run the installer from an ISO, reading from the DVD image.
The solution was to simply take the ISO and uncompress it as a .RAR into some folder, and everything worked.
Well, filename varies from versions to versions. Fix:
Right Click on file
Select Properties
Select "Details" tab
Rename that file to value of "Original Filename"
This is the solution:
Right Click on Visual Studio Setup Icon
Select Properties
Open Compatibility Tab
Check Run This Program In Compatibility Mode
Select Your Windows Version (ex:Windows 8)
Finally Click OK And Install Your Program Again
I'm trying to move a solution I have over to Visual Studio 2012 and one of the project types is .vdproj.
According to this link this project type is not supported in Visual Studio 2012:
MSDN says they recommend that you use InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio.
The problem is, when I open up my solution in VS2012 and try to add a new "Enable InstallShield Limited Edition" project to my solution, I get an error message saying:
Creating project 'test'...project creation failed.
Why might I not be able to add a project of this type to my solution?
If I make a new empty solution I can't make an InstallShield project it in either.
I'm going to try to download InstallShield limited edition and see if it does anything.
I tried out that InstallShield download, and it added two extra project types, but I'm unable to create either of them. I'm able to add normal website projects to my solutions just fine, but not deployment projects.
The installer was named the same, but this one prompted me to re-start. After re-starting I was able to add an InstallShield project, but it gets created in its own solution. So, it looks like now I have to figure out how to use it, and I'll be good to go.
It's looking like the limited edition doesn't have support to install Windows services.
This will probably be long and boring because there's lots of steps, but I'd like to write up how to move from a Windows service installer .vdproj to the new InstallShield LE that's available in Visual Studio 2012.
Step 1: Create a merge module (.msm)
Follow the steps of this guide.
Notes:
You will need to install WiX 3.6 and isWiX
The latest release of IsWiX doesn't enable the Tools menu item in Visual Studio 2012. Edit the file: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns\IsWiXAddin.Addin (XML) and clone the HostApplication element and update 10.0 to 11.0.
In step #8 of the guide, it references a code tab. This has been moved to the XML Editor item in the bottom of the left menu
I left the MergeRedirectFolder empty for my installation
Here is my isWix files view:
After you're done with the guide you should have an empty .wxs file that looks something like this:
Using the Component XML element pulled from here you should end up with a .wxs file that looks like this:
Hit build and you should now have a .msm file.
Step 2: Adding merge module to InstallShield
Go though the wizard to setup the basic install information like company and version information.
Find the redistributables view in ISLE. Right click the list and select browse for module. After your module is found and added, right click the modules and select properties. Set the destination folder drop down to INSTALLDIR. I had to set mine to the lowest level folder I created for my install path, so you might have to experiment a bit.
Build Project, and test on virtual machine
Redistributables Screen
If you're getting errors about the path being too long you might need to change the release location to something close to the root.
Here's a list of all the build errors for reference.
Now you should be able to run your installer and have it install/start a Windows service. A lot more work than .MSI files, we got it to generate in Visual Studio 2010, but overall it was not too bad.
While there is no easy or truly supported solution for Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013 users can get an extension from Microsoft in the Visual Studio Gallery.
I found this post which says you must download InstallShield first. It's a very confusing way to work. I suggest to vote up the post on the connect site and give them comments letting know how poor that is. They could at least give a more descriptive error http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/732196/project-creation-failed-for-installshield-limited-edition#tabs
I'm looking around mysite.tfspreview.com and I can view individual files, but I couldnt find a download all or get solution option.
So if a colleague doesnt have Visual Studio 2010 available and they wish to download a solution from TFS Azure preview what are the available options?
You should be able to use the command line client in the Microsoft Team Explorer Everywhere 11 Beta. It's not a big download (11MB), but I don't think there is a way to download a source tree directly from tfspreview without a client unless a zip has been added. Other source control services work this way (github, jira etc)
You don't need visual studio, but you need Team Explore which is add-on for Visual Studio or can be stand alone, it exists on the TFS media (DVD) or ISO, once you install Team Explore, you can access TFS Preview using GUI or Command line, you can also install TFS Power Tool 11 Beta, that will give you windows shell integration, so the context menu of the windows (when right click) it will has command to interact with TFS, as #Simon said, you can install Team Explorer Everywhere 11 Beta, but this for none windows OS or for add-on for other IDEs
Visual Studio Online has provided a means to do this (partly). On the website, navigate to your project's 'CODE/Explorer' tab. Right-click on whatever source directory/branch you wish and click the Download as ZIP menu item.
This will download a snapshot of whatever it is you selected. While extracting this won't "magically" link the files back to Visual Studio Online (ie, changes made will not be able to be committed directly from Windows Explorer, etc) or give you direct access to history; it will retain any source control bindings in any Visual Studio projects. This may be a good or a bad thing, depending on your circumstances.