Try, try again with strange SQL 2008 error on Win7/Server 2k8

"Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created."

Got this error when trying to install SQL 2008 Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2008.

Went on a wild search of trying to find yet another solution to a SQL 2k8 install problem, including downloading a CU, but then I found this.

Generally, if you just rerun it won't hit the issue again.

It worked.

Sigh.

Trying again. Its not just for bicycle riding any more!

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - NOT BY Einstein, Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, or anybody with a brain.

2008 install problem with Framework 3.5

Problem installing SQL 2008 on a new virtual server. Gave an error almost immediately after running setup.exe, didn't even get to the links screen.

"Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installation has failed.

SQL Server 2008 Setup requires .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed."

The solution I found deep in a thread in MSDN. The point of this blog is to make things like this easier to find on the web, so here goes.

1. Copy your media to a folder on the server. You need to update a file in there.
2. Download a fresh copy of dotNetFx35setup.exe from Microsoft
   
3. Copy the new file and overwrite the old in this location in the media: ..\x64\redist\DotNetFrameworks\