Visual Studio 2008 can’t be installed because Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component

Today I’ve tried to install Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7 and it wasn’t easy. The installer was abnormally exited while it was trying to install “Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component”.

The installation log was: DepCheck indicates Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component is not installed

I thought VS was incompatible with Windows 7, but I checked it and it can works without issues on Windows 7. The problem was Office 2007. I don’t know really why, but uninstalling Office, installing VS and reinstalling Office seemed to solve the problem.

If you’ve any explanation, please share it, cause I have no fucking clue 🙁

7 thoughts on “Visual Studio 2008 can’t be installed because Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component

  1. Migueberia

    Thank’s man, I was having the same problem, and after trying your solution I have everything installed and working correctly.

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    1. smirky

      even i was havin same prob
      i followed
      1) extract WCU\WebDesignerCore\WebDesignerCore.exe to C:\WebDesignerCore

      and run that setup.exe inside.
      while installing it will ask for the path of dwtrig20
      its in C:\WebDesignerCore\office.en-us
      BUT if give this path it will tell that it is a invalid path!!!
      so just copy this file(dwtrig20) from C:\WebDesignerCore\office.en-us to C:\WebDesignerCore
      Then select the path as C:\WebDesignerCore
      thats it web authoring component will be installed succeefully 🙂 🙂 hurray

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  2. smirky

    even i was havin same prob
    i followed
    1) extract WCU\WebDesignerCore\WebDesignerCore.exe to C:\WebDesignerCore

    and run that setup.exe inside.
    while installing it will ask for the path of dwtrig20
    its in C:\WebDesignerCore\office.en-us
    BUT if give this path it will tell that it is a invalid path!!!
    so just copy this file(dwtrig20) from C:\WebDesignerCore\office.en-us to C:\WebDesignerCore
    Then select the path as C:\WebDesignerCore
    thats it web authoring component will be installed succeefully hurray

    Reply

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