I've had some trouble installing Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 (I'm installing the Visual Studio Team System 2008 version). The installer fails when trying to install Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Pocket PC, and I got the following error message:
"Installation failed for component Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Pocket PC. MSI returned error code 1603"
What turned out to be the problem was that I already had a version of the Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK installed, namely the one that works with Visual Studio 2005. So apparently that one had to be uninstalled first. This does not seem to be mentioned in the installation instructions, or then I'm just crap at finding it.
Once I uninstalled the old version I tried going back and repairing the installation, but that didn't seem to try to reinstall the missing bits. What I ended up having to do was to go into the setup for VS 2008, select "Change or Remove Visual Studio 2008", and once the setup wizard has loaded press next and select "Add or Remove Features". The only missing bits were Crystal Reports for Visual Studio Beta 2. When I selected those, and started the installation, it also installed the missing stuff for Windows Mobile (and a lot of other things it seemed it had left uninstalled becuse of the error as well).
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