At my current client we have about 15 or so users of Team Explorer Beta 2 that needed to be upgraded to the RC client (since I upgraded the server to RC). Out of those 15 there were 2 cases of users experiencing installs that would crash after reaching the Complete/Custom selection screen. One of the users was on a laptop running XP SP 3 and the other was on a desktop running XP SP 3. After many attempts (command line install w/ supressed UI, registry changes, etc.) at getting the setup to run correctly and install a working copy of Team Explorer 2010 RC failed I did some searching and found a few people running into the same problem.
The general idea for a fix was that the Language Bar needed to be disabled in order for the install to be successful. So I gave it a shot and it worked. Both users are now happily running complete installs of Team Explorer 2010 RC. My steps taken are defined below:
- Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Regional and Language Options.
- On the Languages tab, under Text services and input languages, click Details.
- Under Preferences, click Language Bar.
- Deselect the Show the Language bar on the desktop check box.
- Extra step in my case: Remove handwriting recognition in the listbox on the parent window.
- If the language bar is still present on the taskbar right-click it and remove it.
Not sure what the language bar has to do with the setup.exe of Team Explorer or Visual Studio but this slight change turned a headache into a good day. If anyone has a reason of why this error is occuring please post it in the comments.
Hope this is helpful to those who find it.