Proper Install Order For Visual Studio 2010 with SQL Server 2008 and Office 2007?

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Taptronic picture Taptronic · Apr 19, 2010 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

I want to create a Windows 7 64-bit (Ultimate) virtual machine with:

  • Visual Studio 2010 (Ultimate)
  • Office 2007 Enterprise (with Visio 2007)
  • SQL Server 2008 (with SSIS and SSRS)

but I am not sure if there is a correct order to install those items such that there will not be a loss of "awareness" of one application from another on that list?

For example, I want to make sure Visual Studio knows that Office exists but also that Visual Studio knows that SQL Server exists but if I install SQL Server before Office will that wipe out any data access drivers that are needed by VS 2010 if Office is installed after SQL Server?

There are a lot of components and I never gave it a thought that install order would matter but I have a feeling it does. Ultimately I want to create a VM that I can save and use a base development VM from which to create additional VMs from.

Answer

a programmer picture a programmer · Apr 19, 2010

I think that for the mentioned applications there is no correct and wrong order, but if I would install them, I would install with the following order: Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio.

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