

If you install any other editions or languages of Visual Studio 2010 after SP1, you must reapply SP1,” the company added. “Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will upgrade all editions and languages of Visual Studio 2010 you have already installed. The software giant has made available a Readme containing information about known problems that customers might be coming across - a recommended read prior to the deployment of the service pack. An Internet connection is required during installation,” Microsoft explained.ĭevs running any edition of Visual Studio 2010, including Express, Professional, Premium, Ultimate, Test Professional, can leverage the SP1 RTM installer in order to upgrade their development platform. ” This web installer downloads and installs Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (Installer) went live on the Download Center just two days after the upgrade was released to devs with MSDN subscriptions, as the Redmond company announced earlier this week. If the workaround does not work, please comment below or through various other support options described here.Two days after it offered it to MSDN subscribers, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) RTM for all developers via the Download Center. After logging in, install Visual Studio 2010 SP1 again.After rollback completes, reboot your machine.This may take a short time and then SP1 will rollback. If the temporary log file was not found or you do not see this text, perhaps wait a while longer or reply below with the last few lines of the log file. If you find that text in the temporary log file, please see the workaround below. Search the file for the text, “WM_ACTIVATEAPP: Focus stealer’s windows WAS visible, NOT taking back focus”.If a file was found, type “start filename” with the file name from step 4 and press Enter.Type “dir HFI*.tmp.html” and press Enter.In the command prompt, type “cd %TEMP%” and press Enter.Type “cmd.exe” (without quotes) and click OK.If Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is taking more than a couple of hours to install, it may be stuck in a loop waiting for the user to cancel the current operation. But if VS2010 SP1 is taking more than a couple hours to install, there could be a problem and in the case described below requires user action. Based on machine performance, even seeing install times of a little over an hour isn’t unexpected. On average customers are experience ~45 minute installs for Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
