How to upgrade VS2008 from version 9.0.21022.8 RTM to 9.0.30729.4462 QFE (to hopefully resolve __forceCRTManifestCUR error)

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Coder_Dan picture Coder_Dan · Jun 26, 2012 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

I've recently installed VS2008 on a new machine, and now find that it will not link with DLLs built on an older machine, giving error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __forceCRTManifestCUR. I presume that this pertains to an issue with Side-By-Side.

Having researched a little, I now suspect that the issue is that the old VS2008 installation is upgraded to version 9.0.30729.4462 QFE, whereas the new VS2008 installation is on 9.0.21022.8 RTM.

On researching further, I read that I needed to install SQL Server 2008 to at least SP1 in order to upgrade VS2008 to the later version. I installed SQL Server 2008 on the new machine however, and it is now at SR3, yet VS2008 is still on version 9.0.21022.8. I suspect that the SQL Server that I installed was pre-service-packed up to SR2, and that this might be the problem.

Windows (Microsoft) Update shows no pending updates for either SQL Server 2008 or Visual Studio 2008.

Please can you suggest a way of forcing Visual Studio to upgrade to the 9.0.30729.4462 QFE version?

Alternatively, are there any other solutions to this problem that don't involve recompiling all of my precompiled DLLs?

Answer

Ian picture Ian · May 11, 2015

A late reply, I know, and more for posterity, but I had a similar discrepancy between the installations of VS 2008 on two machines. One reported version "9.0.30729.1 SP", and the other "9.0.30729.4462 QFE". I wanted them to be the same, and knew the first had already had the service pack installed.

This post inspired me to try installing SQL 2008 R2 on the first, and this turned out to be the key. Following this, both VS versions were ".4462 QFE".

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