Sunday, August 20, 2006

VS2003 SP1 WTF

I am a MSDN subscriber. DVDs turn up all the time. I have a working set of the most recent DVDs and the updated ones get buried deep in some cupboard.

Three years ago I installed Visual Studio 2003. Three years later a service pack is released. I install the service pack. After an eternity (I am not exaggerating) the installation appears to be complete and it asks for the DVD. I stick in the most recent VS2003 DVD and am presented with this...



WTF! This really really annoys me. Why is it based on the actual name? Why do they change the name? Why can't they have some type of product guid?

It will be faster to uninstall VS2003 and reinstall it and the SP rather than to find the original.

There goes that Sunday morning.

Dave.