Although I was successfully able to install SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1, I happened upon a blog post by the Microsoft PSS SQL Escalation Services Team with some guidance on what to do if you encounter problems installing SQL Server 2008 with regard to it detecting previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
According to the blog post:
“If you have Visual Studio 2008 (any version prior to SP1) already installed, SQL Server 2008 installation will block you from installing if you pick any one of the following features:
- Business Intelligence Development Studio
- Integration Services
- Management Tools (Either Basic or Full) ”
If this is you, I recommend checking out the PSS SQL Server Engineers Blog Post: SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 explained.... with some guidance on how to work around the error.
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