Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express failed (.msp association)

I had an issue today when installing the Express version of Visual Web Developer 2008.

The required files download and the install starts. Then it seemed to want to open a file in a paint package installed on the computer and after it failed in doing so, the installer crashed!

I guessed straight away it might be the association of the .msp file and sure enough, on looking, the .msp extension was associated to a paint package installed on the PC.

Thankfully I had a PC that had the association as it needed to be so I copied that and tried to install the program again.

Not sure what .msp has to so with a paint package or why the installer needs it but once I'd 'corrected' it, all worked well.

Here is the registry key and data required;

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.msg

data = 'Msi.Patch'

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