Visual Studio 2008 installer omits SDK 6.0A?

Question

As mentioned in this thread, the Visual Studio 2008 installer sometimes silently fails to create the Include and Lib directories that are supposed to be created in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\.

Does anybody know of a hotfix for the installer, or a reliable way to get the installation to succeed? I am installing on a Win7/64 machine that already has VS2005 and VS2010 installed. Uninstalling and reinstalling VS2008 itself does not work, nor does repairing the installation after it's created. Can I avoid wiping the machine and starting over?

Answer 1

On 64-bit systems, the SDK Bin folder ends up under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\', but theIncludeandLibfolders end up underC:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A.`.

This does not explain why the Include folder would be missing entirely, but it does explain some cases where maybe it would be overlooked on a 64-bit system.