I have installed VS2008 on Win7 and it works just great. The only problem that I had was related to the VSTO.
Knowledge base number: KB949258MSI (s) (F0:5C) [18:27:43:876]: Windows Installer installed an update. Product Name: Visual Studio Tools for the Office system 3.0 Runtime. Product Version: 9.0.30729. Product Language: 0. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Update Name: KB949258. Installation success or error status: 1603.
To overcome follow these steps.
1. Install VS2008
2. Install the
Make sure that before running the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System (version 3.0 Runtime) Service Pack 1 (x86)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d8eb4921-891a-4b5e-973f-0b96e6ccf376&DisplayLang=en
3. Install the VS2008 SP1
This should work!
