Visual Studio on Surface Pro SP1 - windows-8

So, I bought into the dream in the form of a surface pro and then I installed Visual Studio 2010 in the hopes of coding on the toilet. However, I cannot get SP1 to install (from this link: here). Has anyone successfully installed SP1 on the surface?
The error I get is:
KB2736182 does not apply, or is blocked by another condition on your computer. Please see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=225649 for more details.
If you follow the link you'll see this gem:
"Product of the product family Visual Studio 2010 or Team Foundation Server 2010 with Service Pack 1 applied"

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I have Visual Studio 2019 16.8.2 and I have installed the Office Development tools from Visual Studio Installer. I then created an Excel Web Add-In project and when I try to run the project, I get this error:
In the output window, there isn't much useful info:
Excel is of course installed, I have the following version:
Could there be some form of Compatibility issue? or maybe something in the Visual Studio Version?
I tried to check online but couldn't find anything related to this.
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ASP.NET vNext in Visual Studio 2013 SP2

I have install Visual Studio 2013 SP3. I can´t find project for ASP.NET vNext. These pages tell about vNext in Visual Studio SP2:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/05/12/mobile-first-cloud-first-development-visual-studio-apache-cordova-tooling-and-cloud-optimized-net-futures.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/05/12/visual-studio-2013-update-2-is-here.aspx
What I need install for vNext and cloud optimize mode work with VS 2013?
I think the first link talks about a few unrelated topics / products released by Microsoft. ASP.NET vNext is not available in VS2013. You could download Virtual Box (https://www.virtualbox.org/) which is free. Then install a trial version of Windows Server 2012 R2 (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012-r2) inside Virtual Box which is free to try for 180 days. Then install VS "14" on the guest machine. That way you don't have to buy anything and can still try VS "14" CTP 2. After the 180 days both the VS and Windows licence will expire so it makes no sense to keep the Virtual Box image anyway.

Visual Studio 2012 Premium crashes when I use the Solution Configuration Manager

Visual Studio 2012 Premium crashes when I use the Solution Configuration Manager (or drop down on tool bar) to switch from Debug solution config to Release. As soon as I make the selection to the Release config, I get a dialog with a progress bar stating it is looking for a solution to the problem and after a few seconds that dialog closes VS closes and another dialog opens that states it is restarting Visual Studio. I get this same behavior if I try to create a new configuration from within the Solution Configuration Manager; i.e., as soon as I save the new config VS crashes. During the crash I'm not given the option in the dialogs to get detailed info for the crash.
This did not happen with the same code in VS2010 and Win7.
My work-around is to modify the Debug config to be what I need for Release, and then put it back to what I need for Debug.
VS 2012 was installed on a clean (not an update) install of Windows 8. I've installed all the latest updates for both Win8 and VS. Here is the Visual Studio boiler-plate info:
Microsoft Visual Studio Premium 2012
Version 11.0.50727.1 RTMREL
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.5.50709
Installed Version: Premium
LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2012, Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2012, Visual Basic 2012, Visual C# 2012, Visual C++ 2012, Visual F# 2012, Visual Studio 2012 Code Analysis Spell Checker, NuGet Package Manager 2.0.30717.9005, PreEmptive Analytics Visualizer 1.0, SQL Server Data Tools 11.1.20627.00, Web Developer Tools 1.0.30710.0

Where to download vcredist?

I feel a little stupid asking this question, but I hope that this might be helpful to others as well.
Background: We/I are developing some software with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (VC9). We would like to provide the vcredist along the software on the cd.
Now, I am used to ask google "download vcredist 2008 sp1" and usually it leads me to the following (also bookmarked) web pages:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5582 (32 bit)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2092 (64 bit)
I think I have downloaded different versions (9.0.30729.01 and later 9.0.30729.17) from that same URL as they came available. Today, only the .17 is available on that page. Now, a customer complained and told me that there is a 9.0.30729.6161 available, but I can't find it. The closest I could get was 9.0.30729.5677:
When I searched google for that specific version, it lead me to this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2538243 which is saying, that a security update is available.
The linked Security Bulletin https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms11-025 lists the vcredist 2008 sp1 as affected and as a new link to something that seems to be an updated version of the vcredist 2008 sp1, although it has a slightly different name, in that it also bears the "mfc" in it's name: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26368
File names, file sizes and version numbers suggest these are updated versions of the vcredist 2008 sp1. This is the version 9.0.30729.5677
Is there ONE URL where I can always pull the newest version ?
Is there some kind of notification system (email list, rss-feed, ...) that informs me about a new vcredist ?
You can download the VC++ redistributables at:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2977003
As of now, the latest are:
Visual Studio 2005 (VC++ 8.0) SP1 w/ MFC Security Update: 8.0.61001 (8.0.61000 for x86)
Visual Studio 2008 (VC++ 9.0) SP1 w/ MFC Security Update: 9.0.30729.6161
Visual Studio 2010 (VC++ 10.0) SP1 w/ MFC Security Update: 10.0.40219.325
Visual Studio 2012 (VC++ 11.0) Update 4: 11.0.61030.0
Visual Studio 2013 (VC++ 12.0) Update 5: 12.0.40660.0
Visual Studio 2015 (VC++ 14.0) Update 3: 14.0.24215.1
Visual Studio 2017 (VC++ 14.1): 14.16.27012.6
Visual Studio 2019 (VC++ 14.2): 14.25.28508.3
Note: The 2015, 2017, and 2019 packages share the same runtime files, hence only the latest of the series is required.
For additional versioning information, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B

I'm having problems connecting to TFS VS2010 from VS 2008

If you are not able to connect to TFS VS2010 from VS2008. This might save you some time.
Connecting from VS2008 to TFS VS2010
Step:1 Make sure that Service Pack 1 is installed with Sql Server 2008
Step:2 Make sure that Service Pack 1 is installed with VS2008
Step:3 Make sure that Team Explorer is installed in VS 2008
Step:4 Make sure that Service pack 1 is updated for Team Explorer
Step:5 After all these Service Packs are installed on your machine, follow the below path
CmdPrompt> regedit
Hkey_Current_User>Software>Microsoft>VisualStudio>9.0>TeamFoundation> Right Click Servers>New>String Value
Give the complete URL path which look like ‘http://swstfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection’
Step:6 Close everything and open VS2008
File>Open>TeamProject
Step: 7 Connect.
I connected to TFS, but the problem is while I am trying to open the solution through VS2008 into TFS it is showing me an error
"This project (fmPilot.SSIS.ClientIntegrations.sln) cannot be opened from source control because it was created by a version of Microsoft Visual Studio that is incompatible with this one.
If this is the case, you may be able to open it from source control using that version of Microsoft Visual Studio, and then use Microsoft Visual Studio to open the local copy."
I also tried it through VS2010 but it is showing me an error
"Cannot be openned because its project type(/dtproj) is not supported bby this version of the application."
Can somebody help me on that..... I google it some says that permission might be the reason.. Please help me...
Thanks,
Karthik
Make sure that you have Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) installed on your machine. Having just Visual Studio 2008 doesn't mean that you can open SSIS packages.
To verify whether you have BIDS installed:
Open Visual Studio 2008 IDE. Click Help and About Microsoft Visual Studio.
Make sure that you see SQL Server Integration Service.
Another way to verify is by trying to create a new project in VS 2008. You should see Business Intelligence Projects under Project types.
If you do not see this, then it means you don't have BIDS installed on your local machine. You can install BIDS by installing SQL Server 2008 client tools.
Following link shows how to install SQL Server 2008 client tools.
SQL Server 2008 Client Tools Installation