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  • July 9, 2009 at 6:44 am

    #1022312

    The registry fix worked for me as well.

    I installed Visual Studio 2008, and then SQL Server 2005. Because SQL Express was installed with VS 2008, all the client tools failed with SQL Server. After un-installing both sql server and visual studio, I was unable to get SQL server to install. Thanks for the fix!