Error "The language of this installation package is not supported byyour system." while installing W

[Shannon Wagner]

While trying to install Visual Studio 2008, I received the message
below:

"The language of this installation package is not supported by your
system."

I have isolated the cause of the error to a component which I believe
is an Office component, called "WebDesignerCore".

I've done all the Googling I can think of, but have not found a
solution. And, I apologize if I am incorrect in believing this is an
Office component.

Can anyone provide any help or advice on what to look at to determine
the cause?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

 

[Ryan Hamshire]

I'm not certain, but it does sound similar to a problem I've encountered
before on XP. If this solution doesn't help, please do reply.

1. Control Panel --> Regional Settings --> Languages (Tab)
2. Check both checkboxes and click apply. You might be prompted to put your
Windows CD in the drive or to restart.
3. Try again?

 

[Shannon Wagner]

Ryan,

Thank you for the suggestion.

This does not seem to be the solution I need, though. Both of those
checkboxes are already checked. I tried checking them off and on to
see if it would "jog" anything into place, but nothing so far.

I will keep looking..

--
sw

I'm not certain, but it does sound similar to a problem I've encountered
before on XP.  If this solution doesn't help, please do reply.

1. Control Panel --> Regional Settings --> Languages (Tab)
2. Check both checkboxes and click apply.  You might be prompted to putyour
Windows CD in the drive or to restart.
3. Try again?

While trying to install Visual Studio 2008, I received the message
below:

"The language of this installation package is not supported by your
system."

I have isolated the cause of the error to a component which I believe
is an Office component, called "WebDesignerCore".

I've done all the Googling I can think of, but have not found a
solution.  And, I apologize if I am incorrect in believing this is an
Office component.

Can anyone provide any help or advice on what to look at to determine
the cause?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

 

[Ryan Hamshire]

Can you check your system locale? It should be set to English, and I think
you'll also find it in the Regional Settings (maybe under a different tab, I
can't remember exactly). It might also be labelled "code page", or something
like that.

Ryan,

Thank you for the suggestion.

This does not seem to be the solution I need, though. Both of those
checkboxes are already checked. I tried checking them off and on to
see if it would "jog" anything into place, but nothing so far.

I will keep looking..

--
sw

I'm not certain, but it does sound similar to a problem I've encountered
before on XP. If this solution doesn't help, please do reply.

1. Control Panel --> Regional Settings --> Languages (Tab)
2. Check both checkboxes and click apply. You might be prompted to put your
Windows CD in the drive or to restart.
3. Try again?

While trying to install Visual Studio 2008, I received the message
below:

"The language of this installation package is not supported by your
system."

I have isolated the cause of the error to a component which I believe
is an Office component, called "WebDesignerCore".

I've done all the Googling I can think of, but have not found a
solution. And, I apologize if I am incorrect in believing this is an
Office component.

Can anyone provide any help or advice on what to look at to determine
the cause?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

 

[Aaron Rykhus [MSFT]]

Check to see if you have the 2007 Office System Compatiblity Pack BETA, if
you have it, uninstall it.

 

[Shannon Wagner]

Ryan,

These settings are okay on my PC.

Still looking for the cause..

 

[Shannon Wagner]

Aaron,

I do not have "2007 Office System Compatiblity Pack BETA" installed.

My guess is that I have some other application installed which has
added a component of Office 2007 which is somehow conflicting, but it
is not clear to me which application that could be.

Right now, I am removing Crystal Reports 2008, in case this is what
has caused the problem.

A few months ago, I installed the Visual Studio 2008 shell while
installing IronPython Studio. Maybe that is causing the problem (even
though it has already been removed)?

Any other tips are much appreciated!

It's been a long time since I have come up against a mysterious quirk
in Microsoft software that I was not able to work around in some way.
I am almost ready to give up and re-image the PC, but I am really
trying to avoid that.

- shannon

 

[Aaron Rykhus [MSFT]]

Are the setup files from an ISO file? If so, where they extracted or was the
ISO burned to a CD? If they were extracted, what did you use to extract?

 

[Shannon Wagner]

Aaron,

I mounted an ISO using Microsoft Virtual CD. My company has MSDN
licenses, but I have not been able to find the original source DVD's -
the only source I have available is an ISO.

When running from the ISO did not work, I copied "WebDesignerCore.EXE"
from the mounted ISO to a local drive and tried to run it. Note:
This is the component where the failure seem to be occurring, which I
saw by looking at the setup log.

When this (silent) installer failed, I extracted the setup files from
"WebDesignerCore.EXE" using 7Zip, and tried to run "setup.exe".

This also fails.

Do you know of another source for "WebDesignerCore.exe"? I tried
finding it as a separate component in the Microsoft Download site, but
was not able to. The closest I could find was Visual Studio Express
2008, which seems to include the same component, but this setup also
failed.

Again, any help is very much appreciated..

- shannon

 

[Aaron Rykhus [MSFT]]

From digging around I don't think WebDesignerCore.exe is a part of Office,
I'm pretty sure it's the Visual Studio Web Authoring component. If you have
an MSDN subscription I think you get the managed newsgroups access which you
can check with. If you're not sure you could try a public newsgroup for
Visual Studio 2008

Taking a look at the public newsgroups on
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx, there's a
hyperlink called MSDN (Developer Newsgroups)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/, from there expand English > Developer
Discussions > Visual Tools and Languages > Visual Studio > click on Setup,
oh wait, I see your post to that group .

Hmmm, here's something you may want to consider, opening a support incident
on this, check out http://support.microsoft.com/oas > Developer Tools / More
Developer Tools... > Visual Studio 2008 > Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
<edition>, and view the support options. The important note is "no-charge
installation support is available by telephone" so you may not need to use
one of the two warrenty incidents or a subscription incident. You could also
call 800-MICROSOFT and have a customer service representative walk you
through the support options.

 

[Shannon Wagner]

Thank you Aaron - I really appreciate the guidance! I will pursue the
alternatives you suggested.

 

[Shannon Wagner]

Aaron -

Okay - I looked through the support options you suggested. I'll be
honest - I've done Microsoft phone support in the past and have not
had very good results. It generally takes several hours of phone
calls in order to get to speaking with the right tech, and this is in
addition to any internal effort I need to make to get any potential
billing squared away. After that, I would expect several days of
going back and forth to get the tech up to speed on the problem, and
would probably spend a lot of time taking the same troubleshooting
steps I have already taken. Plus, there's no guarantee the problem
will be resolved by the end of it.

Unfortunately, I think my chances of resolving the problem by
rebuilding this PC from scratch are more promising, and will have a
more controllable bound on the amount of time invested to do it.

I do wish that Microsoft had some documentation on this issue though,
or some documentation on troubleshooting or doing standalone
installations of WebDesignerCore.exe, especially since a successful
installation of Visual Studio 2008 seems to be very tightly dependent
on this component.

Thanks again for your efforts..

 

[Shannon Wagner]

Aaron,

Just a correction to your last message..

Yes, "WebDesignerCore.exe" is installed as part of the Visual Studio
Web Authoring component. But it is an Office 2007 component.

Here is an excerpt from the readme.htm file included with
"WebDesignerCore.exe". References are made to Office 2007, not to
Visual Studio 2008. This is the reason I cross-posted this issue on
this newsgroup.


<snip>
2007 Microsoft Office System ReadMe File
© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This document provides links to late-breaking information about the
2007 Microsoft® Office System.
Known Issues/ReadMe
Make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet.
Display the 2007 Microsoft Office System Known Issues/ReadMe File from
the Microsoft Office Online Web site, click here.
System Requirements
The summary of system requirements (latest) are as follows:
Minimum OS requirement: Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 SP1 or (see
below)
Minimum hardware requirement: P3 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM
A complete listing of 2007 Microsoft Office system requirements is
posted on: 2007 Microsoft Office Release System Requirements
</snip>

 

[Aaron Rykhus [MSFT]]

I'll see what I can find on WebDesignerCore.exe. I have a feeling it's parts
of Expression Web which uses Office 2007 shared components (upgrade to
FrontPage 2003). But all the stuff in the CAB if you extract
WebDesignerCore.exe is just shared Office files, nothing specific to an
application. The best article we have out there that explains Visual Studio
2007 and Office 2007 dependance is this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942622.

Now there are some known issues I've found that we had in some Office 2007
calls getting the same error installing Office that you got installing
Visual Studio.


Aaron,

Just a correction to your last message..

Yes, "WebDesignerCore.exe" is installed as part of the Visual Studio
Web Authoring component. But it is an Office 2007 component.

Here is an excerpt from the readme.htm file included with
"WebDesignerCore.exe". References are made to Office 2007, not to
Visual Studio 2008. This is the reason I cross-posted this issue on
this newsgroup.


<snip>
2007 Microsoft Office System ReadMe File
© 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This document provides links to late-breaking information about the
2007 Microsoft® Office System.
Known Issues/ReadMe
Make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet.
Display the 2007 Microsoft Office System Known Issues/ReadMe File from
the Microsoft Office Online Web site, click here.
System Requirements
The summary of system requirements (latest) are as follows:
Minimum OS requirement: Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 SP1 or (see
below)
Minimum hardware requirement: P3 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM
A complete listing of 2007 Microsoft Office system requirements is
posted on: 2007 Microsoft Office Release System Requirements
</snip>

 

[Shannon Wagner]

Aaron,

My best guess is that there is a registry key missing someplace on my
system (which was probably removed during a buggy installation or
removal of a related product or component).

I have found some vague references to registry keys that might resolve
this issue in some Google searches, but unfortunately nothing specific
enough to help me understand exactly what needs to be added or
modified.

I also do not see this issue documented in Microsoft's list of known
issues for Office 2007 components, even though a few quick Google
searches seem to indicate the issue is fairly well-known among users.

Here is the link to Microsoft's known issue log (which I found in the
"readme.htm" file that is extracted from WebDesignerCore.exe):

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX101633871033.aspx

 

[Aaron Rykhus [MSFT]]

That's the list of known issues at the time Office 2007 was first released,
other known issues found after that will be in the knowledge base
http://support.microsoft.com.

 

[Shannon Wagner]

Aaron,

When I search on "http://support.microsoft.com", for "The language of
this installation package is not supported by your system", I only get
two results:

A simple list of error codes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290158
A result related to Sharepoint services: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916895

It does not look like this issue is currently documented as a known
issue with the Office team. Do you know whether there is a way for me
to suggest a known issue by sending an email to someone at Microsoft?

I really appreciate your help with trying to track down the cause of
this problem. And while I am pretty confident that I will be able to
resolve it by re-imaging and re-installing all software on my PC (as
soon as I have a free day to do this), it really seems like it would
be a good idea to get some Microsoft documentation published on how to
resolve this issue without a complete rebuild, or at least to document
it as a known issue, in order to help other customers who encounter
the same problem.

 

[Gummy]

Hi Shannon,

I encountered something like that tonight while trying to install VS2008 ENU
on Vista Business French.
I had some problem with the WebDesignerCore.
I installed it separately by extracting WebDesignerCore, and it installed
properly on my system. However, VS2008 would not detect it as installed and
keep trying to install it (and fails miserably).
I uninstalled the Web Designer component by Add/Remove programs, and tried
another time to install it with the VS2008 setup, and encountered the same
insult message ("The language of this installation package...").

Provided your problem is the same as mine, the following should help:


Install WebDesignerCore by extracting it, and install it.
You will find in your registry, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Web
Designer Tools , a subkey related to your region (on mine, this is 1036).

Now copy your VS2008 install files on your hard drive.
In the Setup directory, you will find baseline.dat

This file contains the prerequisites, and the registry keys used to check if
everything is ok.

You should find in this file something like :

[gencomp320]
ComponentType=1
GFN=GFN_MID WebDesignerCore
CleanCost=295000000
DefaultPath=[ProgramFilesFolder]\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\
DetectKey=HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Web Designer Tools\1033

DetectKeyVal=InstalledVersion
DetectKeyValData=12.0.4518.1066
EncryptionOpt=0
EstInstallTime=180
Executable=WebDesignerCore.EXE
CommandLine=/Q /install /1033

In
DetectKey=HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Web Designer Tools\1033
Replace 1033 with your region code (mine is 1036), so the VS2008 setup can
find your WebDesignerCore install.

Run setup.exe, it should work.

Took some hours to find it, hope it helps.

Best regards,

J.Longo

 

[satish lumar s]

Click Start->Control Panel->Regional and language options

step1:Check the Language of ur cd whether it is present.
step2:if not then click the language tab.
step3:Under Supplement language support, Check the two boxes ie: install files for complex script and East Asian Languages.
step4:Now languages are installed.
step5:Then try the installation now.

While trying to install Visual Studio 2008, I received the message
below:

"The language of this installation package is not supported by your
system."

I have isolated the cause of the error to a component which I believe
is an Office component, called "WebDesignerCore".

I've done all the Googling I can think of, but have not found a
solution. And, I apologize if I am incorrect in believing this is an
Office component.

Can anyone provide any help or advice on what to look at to determine
the cause?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

--
sw

On Friday, December 12, 2008 3:09 PM RyanHamshir wrote:
I'm not certain, but it does sound similar to a problem I've encountered
before on XP. If this solution doesn't help, please do reply.

1. Control Panel --> Regional Settings --> Languages (Tab)
2. Check both checkboxes and click apply. You might be prompted to put your
Windows CD in the drive or to restart.
3. Try again?

"Shannon Wagner" wrote:

On Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:06 PM Aaron Rykhus [MSFT] wrote:
Check to see if you have the 2007 Office System Compatiblity Pack BETA, if
you have it, uninstall it.

On Monday, December 15, 2008 12:45 PM Aaron Rykhus [MSFT] wrote:
Are the setup files from an ISO file? If so, where they extracted or was the
ISO burned to a CD? If they were extracted, what did you use to extract?

On Monday, December 15, 2008 3:38 PM Aaron Rykhus [MSFT] wrote:
From digging around I don't think WebDesignerCore.exe is a part of Office,
I'm pretty sure it's the Visual Studio Web Authoring component. If you have
an MSDN subscription I think you get the managed newsgroups access which you
can check with. If you're not sure you could try a public newsgroup for
Visual Studio 2008

Taking a look at the public newsgroups on
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx, there's a
hyperlink called MSDN (Developer Newsgroups)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/, from there expand English > Developer
Discussions > Visual Tools and Languages > Visual Studio > click on Setup,
oh wait, I see your post to that group .

Hmmm, here's something you may want to consider, opening a support incident
on this, check out http://support.microsoft.com/oas > Developer Tools / More
Developer Tools... > Visual Studio 2008 > Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
<edition>, and view the support options. The important note is "no-charge
installation support is available by telephone" so you may not need to use
one of the two warrenty incidents or a subscription incident. You could also
call 800-MICROSOFT and have a customer service representative walk you
through the support options.



news:[email protected]...

On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:31 PM Aaron Rykhus [MSFT] wrote:
I'll see what I can find on WebDesignerCore.exe. I have a feeling it's parts
of Expression Web which uses Office 2007 shared components (upgrade to
FrontPage 2003). But all the stuff in the CAB if you extract
WebDesignerCore.exe is just shared Office files, nothing specific to an
application. The best article we have out there that explains Visual Studio
2007 and Office 2007 dependance is this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942622.

Now there are some known issues I've found that we had in some Office 2007
calls getting the same error installing Office that you got installing
Visual Studio.



Aaron,

Just a correction to your last message..

Yes, "WebDesignerCore.exe" is installed as part of the Visual Studio
Web Authoring component. But it is an Office 2007 component.

Here is an excerpt from the readme.htm file included with
"WebDesignerCore.exe". References are made to Office 2007, not to
Visual Studio 2008. This is the reason I cross-posted this issue on
this newsgroup.


<snip>
2007 Microsoft Office System ReadMe File
? 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This document provides links to late-breaking information about the
2007 Microsoft? Office System.
Known Issues/ReadMe
Make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet.
Display the 2007 Microsoft Office System Known Issues/ReadMe File from
the Microsoft Office Online Web site, click here.
System Requirements
The summary of system requirements (latest) are as follows:
Minimum OS requirement: Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 SP1 or (see
below)
Minimum hardware requirement: P3 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM
A complete listing of 2007 Microsoft Office system requirements is
posted on: 2007 Microsoft Office Release System Requirements
</snip>

On Monday, March 09, 2009 8:39 PM Gumm wrote:
Hi Shannon,

I encountered something like that tonight while trying to install VS2008 ENU
on Vista Business French.
I had some problem with the WebDesignerCore.
I installed it separately by extracting WebDesignerCore, and it installed
properly on my system. However, VS2008 would not detect it as installed and
keep trying to install it (and fails miserably).
I uninstalled the Web Designer component by Add/Remove programs, and tried
another time to install it with the VS2008 setup, and encountered the same
insult message ("The language of this installation package...").

Provided your problem is the same as mine, the following should help:


Install WebDesignerCore by extracting it, and install it.
You will find in your registry, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Web
Designer Tools , a subkey related to your region (on mine, this is 1036).

Now copy your VS2008 install files on your hard drive.
In the Setup directory, you will find baseline.dat

This file contains the prerequisites, and the registry keys used to check if
everything is ok.

You should find in this file something like :

[gencomp320]
ComponentType=1
GFN=GFN_MID WebDesignerCore
CleanCost=295000000
DefaultPath=[ProgramFilesFolder]\Microsoft Web Designer Tools\
DetectKey=HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Web Designer Tools\1033

DetectKeyVal=InstalledVersion
DetectKeyValData=12.0.4518.1066
EncryptionOpt=0
EstInstallTime=180
Executable=WebDesignerCore.EXE
CommandLine=/Q /install /1033

In
DetectKey=HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Web Designer Tools\1033
Replace 1033 with your region code (mine is 1036), so the VS2008 setup can
find your WebDesignerCore install.

Run setup.exe, it should work.

Took some hours to find it, hope it helps.

Best regards,

J.Longo

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

HooplHeaded Eggheaer:

Replying to a post from 2008? Do you really the the OP will be back to see
it after all this time? And, even if he did, do you think he would know that
you changed the original subejct line?

Click Start->Control Panel->Regional and language options

step1:Check the Language of ur cd whether it is present.
step2:if not then click the language tab.
step3:Under Supplement language support, Check the two boxes ie: install
files for complex script and East Asian Languages.
step4:Now languages are installed.
step5:Then try the installation now.

While trying to install Visual Studio 2008, I received the message
below:

"The language of this installation package is not supported by your
system."

I have isolated the cause of the error to a component which I believe
is an Office component, called "WebDesignerCore".

I've done all the Googling I can think of, but have not found a
solution. And, I apologize if I am incorrect in believing this is an
Office component.

Can anyone provide any help or advice on what to look at to determine
the cause?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

--
sw

On Friday, December 12, 2008 3:09 PM RyanHamshir wrote:
I'm not certain, but it does sound similar to a problem I've encountered
before on XP. If this solution doesn't help, please do reply.

1. Control Panel --> Regional Settings --> Languages (Tab)
2. Check both checkboxes and click apply. You might be prompted to put
your
Windows CD in the drive or to restart.
3. Try again?

"Shannon Wagner" wrote:

On Friday, December 12, 2008 3:55 PM RyanHamshir wrote:
Can you check your system locale? It should be set to English, and I
think
you'll also find it in the Regional Settings (maybe under a different
tab, I
can't remember exactly). It might also be labelled "code page", or
something
like that.

"Shannon Wagner" wrote:

On Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:07 AM Shannon Wagner wrote:
Ryan,

Thank you for the suggestion.

This does not seem to be the solution I need, though. Both of those
checkboxes are already checked. I tried checking them off and on to
see if it would "jog" anything into place, but nothing so far.

I will keep looking..

--
sw


On Dec 12, 3:09=A0pm, Ryan Hamshire
your

On Sunday, December 14, 2008 4:06 PM Aaron Rykhus [MSFT] wrote:
Check to see if you have the 2007 Office System Compatiblity Pack
BETA, if
you have it, uninstall it.

On Monday, December 15, 2008 12:45 PM Aaron Rykhus [MSFT] wrote:
Are the setup files from an ISO file? If so, where they extracted or
was the
ISO burned to a CD? If they were extracted, what did you use to
extract?

On Monday, December 15, 2008 3:38 PM Aaron Rykhus [MSFT] wrote:
From digging around I don't think WebDesignerCore.exe is a part of
Office,
I'm pretty sure it's the Visual Studio Web Authoring component. If
you have
an MSDN subscription I think you get the managed newsgroups access
which you
can check with. If you're not sure you could try a public newsgroup
for
Visual Studio 2008

Taking a look at the public newsgroups on
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx,
there's a
hyperlink called MSDN (Developer Newsgroups)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/, from there expand English >
Developer
Discussions > Visual Tools and Languages > Visual Studio > click on
Setup,
oh wait, I see your post to that group .

Hmmm, here's something you may want to consider, opening a support
incident
on this, check out http://support.microsoft.com/oas > Developer
Tools / More
Developer Tools... > Visual Studio 2008 > Microsoft Visual Studio
2008
<edition>, and view the support options. The important note is
"no-charge
installation support is available by telephone" so you may not need
to use
one of the two warrenty incidents or a subscription incident. You
could also
call 800-MICROSOFT and have a customer service representative walk
you
through the support options.



news:[email protected]...

On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:33 PM Shannon Wagner wrote:
Ryan,

These settings are okay on my PC.

Still looking for the cause..


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On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:33 PM Shannon Wagner wrote:
Aaron,

I do not have "2007 Office System Compatiblity Pack BETA"
installed.

My guess is that I have some other application installed which
has
added a component of Office 2007 which is somehow conflicting,
but it
is not clear to me which application that could be.

Right now, I am removing Crystal Reports 2008, in case this is
what
has caused the problem.

A few months ago, I installed the Visual Studio 2008 shell while
installing IronPython Studio. Maybe that is causing the problem
(even
though it has already been removed)?

Any other tips are much appreciated!

It's been a long time since I have come up against a mysterious
quirk
in Microsoft software that I was not able to work around in some
way.
I am almost ready to give up and re-image the PC, but I am really
trying to avoid that.

- shannon

On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:33 PM Shannon Wagner wrote:
Aaron,

I mounted an ISO using Microsoft Virtual CD. My company has
MSDN
licenses, but I have not been able to find the original source
DVD's -
the only source I have available is an ISO.

When running from the ISO did not work, I copied
"WebDesignerCore.EXE"
from the mounted ISO to a local drive and tried to run it.
Note:
This is the component where the failure seem to be occurring,
which I
saw by looking at the setup log.

When this (silent) installer failed, I extracted the setup files
from
"WebDesignerCore.EXE" using 7Zip, and tried to run "setup.exe".

This also fails.

Do you know of another source for "WebDesignerCore.exe"? I
tried
finding it as a separate component in the Microsoft Download
site, but
was not able to. The closest I could find was Visual Studio
Express
2008, which seems to include the same component, but this setup
also
failed.

Again, any help is very much appreciated..

- shannon

On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:33 PM Shannon Wagner wrote:
Thank you Aaron - I really appreciate the guidance! I will
pursue the
alternatives you suggested.

On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:33 PM Shannon Wagner wrote:
Aaron -

Okay - I looked through the support options you suggested.
I'll be
honest - I've done Microsoft phone support in the past and
have not
had very good results. It generally takes several hours of
phone
calls in order to get to speaking with the right tech, and
this is in
addition to any internal effort I need to make to get any
potential
billing squared away. After that, I would expect several days
of
going back and forth to get the tech up to speed on the
problem, and
would probably spend a lot of time taking the same
troubleshooting
steps I have already taken. Plus, there's no guarantee the
problem
will be resolved by the end of it.

Unfortunately, I think my chances of resolving the problem by
rebuilding this PC from scratch are more promising, and will
have a
more controllable bound on the amount of time invested to do
it.

I do wish that Microsoft had some documentation on this issue
though,
or some documentation on troubleshooting or doing standalone
installations of WebDesignerCore.exe, especially since a
successful
installation of Visual Studio 2008 seems to be very tightly
dependent
on this component.

Thanks again for your efforts..

On Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:33 PM Shannon Wagner wrote:
Aaron,

Just a correction to your last message..

Yes, "WebDesignerCore.exe" is installed as part of the Visual
Studio
Web Authoring component. But it is an Office 2007 component.

Here is an excerpt from the readme.htm file included with
"WebDesignerCore.exe". References are made to Office 2007,
not to
Visual Studio 2008. This is the reason I cross-posted this
issue on
this newsgroup.


<snip>
2007 Microsoft Office System ReadMe File
=A9 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This document provides links to late-breaking information
about the
2007 Microsoft=AE Office System.
Known Issues/ReadMe
Make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet.
Display the 2007 Microsoft Office System Known Issues/ReadMe
File from
the Microsoft Office Online Web site, click here.
System Requirements
The summary of system requirements (latest) are as follows:
Minimum OS requirement: Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 SP1 or
(see
below)
Minimum hardware requirement: P3 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM
A complete listing of 2007 Microsoft Office system
requirements is
posted on: 2007 Microsoft Office Release System Requirements
</snip>

I'll see what I can find on WebDesignerCore.exe. I have a
feeling it's parts
of Expression Web which uses Office 2007 shared components
(upgrade to
FrontPage 2003). But all the stuff in the CAB if you extract
WebDesignerCore.exe is just shared Office files, nothing
specific to an
application. The best article we have out there that
explains Visual Studio
2007 and Office 2007 dependance is this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942622.

Now there are some known issues I've found that we had in
some Office 2007
calls getting the same error installing Office that you got
installing
Visual Studio.



Aaron,

Just a correction to your last message..

Yes, "WebDesignerCore.exe" is installed as part of the
Visual Studio
Web Authoring component. But it is an Office 2007
component.

Here is an excerpt from the readme.htm file included with
"WebDesignerCore.exe". References are made to Office 2007,
not to
Visual Studio 2008. This is the reason I cross-posted this
issue on
this newsgroup.


<snip>
2007 Microsoft Office System ReadMe File
? 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
This document provides links to late-breaking information
about the
2007 Microsoft? Office System.
Known Issues/ReadMe
Make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet.
Display the 2007 Microsoft Office System Known Issues/ReadMe
File from
the Microsoft Office Online Web site, click here.
System Requirements
The summary of system requirements (latest) are as follows:
Minimum OS requirement: Windows XP SP2 or Windows 2003 SP1
or (see
below)
Minimum hardware requirement: P3 500 MHz, 256 MB RAM
A complete listing of 2007 Microsoft Office system
requirements is
posted on: 2007 Microsoft Office Release System Requirements
</snip>

On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:58 AM arykhu wrote:
That's the list of known issues at the time Office 2007 was
first released,
other known issues found after that will be in the
knowledge base
http://support.microsoft.com.

Aaron,

My best guess is that there is a registry key missing
someplace on my
system (which was probably removed during a buggy
installation or
removal of a related product or component).

I have found some vague references to registry keys that
might resolve
this issue in some Google searches, but unfortunately
nothing specific
enough to help me understand exactly what needs to be
added or
modified.

I also do not see this issue documented in Microsoft's
list of known
issues for Office 2007 components, even though a few quick
Google
searches seem to indicate the issue is fairly well-known
among users.

Here is the link to Microsoft's known issue log (which I
found in the
"readme.htm" file that is extracted from
WebDesignerCore.exe):

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX101633871033.aspx

Aaron,

When I search on "http://support.microsoft.com", for "The
language of
this installation package is not supported by your
system", I only get
two results:

A simple list of error codes:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290158
A result related to Sharepoint services:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916895

It does not look like this issue is currently documented
as a known
issue with the Office team. Do you know whether there is
a way for me
to suggest a known issue by sending an email to someone
at Microsoft?

I really appreciate your help with trying to track down
the cause of
this problem. And while I am pretty confident that I
will be able to
resolve it by re-imaging and re-installing all software
on my PC (as
soon as I have a free day to do this), it really seems
like it would
be a good idea to get some Microsoft documentation
published on how to
resolve this issue without a complete rebuild, or at
least to document
it as a known issue, in order to help other customers who
encounter
the same problem.

On Monday, March 09, 2009 8:39 PM Gumm wrote:
Hi Shannon,

I encountered something like that tonight while trying
to install VS2008 ENU
on Vista Business French.
I had some problem with the WebDesignerCore.
I installed it separately by extracting WebDesignerCore,
and it installed
properly on my system. However, VS2008 would not detect
it as installed and
keep trying to install it (and fails miserably).
I uninstalled the Web Designer component by Add/Remove
programs, and tried
another time to install it with the VS2008 setup, and
encountered the same
insult message ("The language of this installation
package...").

Provided your problem is the same as mine, the following
should help:


Install WebDesignerCore by extracting it, and install
it.
You will find in your registry, in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Web
Designer Tools , a subkey related to your region (on
mine, this is 1036).

Now copy your VS2008 install files on your hard drive.
In the Setup directory, you will find baseline.dat

This file contains the prerequisites, and the registry
keys used to check if
everything is ok.

You should find in this file something like :

[gencomp320]
ComponentType=1
GFN=GFN_MID WebDesignerCore
CleanCost=295000000
DefaultPath=[ProgramFilesFolder]\Microsoft Web Designer
Tools\
DetectKey=HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Web Designer
Tools\1033

DetectKeyVal=InstalledVersion
DetectKeyValData=12.0.4518.1066
EncryptionOpt=0
EstInstallTime=180
Executable=WebDesignerCore.EXE
CommandLine=/Q /install /1033

In
DetectKey=HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Web Designer
Tools\1033
Replace 1033 with your region code (mine is 1036), so
the VS2008 setup can
find your WebDesignerCore install.

Run setup.exe, it should work.

Took some hours to find it, hope it helps.

Best regards,

J.Longo

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