You will also understand what all we check over here. Here is the public proof of my theory from setup logs. Later, looking at the code I realized that we do this check if we install components which need Visual Studio Shell (like SQL Server Management Studio) But, I thought that why setup didn’t do this check on earlier screens. Well, SQL Server Tools (SSMS, BIDS) uses Visual Studio Shell. One might ask, I don’t have Visual Studio product installed, why do I get this error.

To continue, install the required Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 from SQL Server media or from. This computer has an installation of Visual Studio 2010 that requires a Service Pack 1 update that is needed for a successful installation of SQL Server based on your feature selection. Rule 'Prior Visual Studio 2010 instances requiring update.' failed. Here is the text of the error message for better search.

Interestingly I didn’t receive error another machine both were made from same image. Setup started fine and later after doing feature selection and then I received this error. Denali) CTP3 from my machine(s) and and started to install SQL Server 2012 RC0. To make my AlwaysOn demo up-to-date with latest release, I uninstalled SQL Server 2012 (a.k.a.

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