During the installation/configuration of VS.NET templates, I got an error message stating that the Windows Installer Service had choked and ended my installation prematurely.  Through some digging, I came across this post from Phil Haak.  Turns out that previous VS.Net add-ons can cause trouble with the MVC installation.

I have the latest version of CodeRush Express loaded, as well as GhostDoc and TestDriven.net.  I let the patch run for about 10 minutes, at which point the progress bar began to move backwards.  The installation dialog just sat there for another 5 minutes before I got scared and hit cancel.  It doesn’t seem to be doing anything, as it sits there for now about 10 minutes, but certainly hope it’s doing something. I eventually killed the process and reboot, hoping for the best.  Thankfully, my machine came up and VS.NET fired up.

I uninstalled all my add-ons and rebooted, but still can’t install.  So I decided to try to the hot fix again, and after 5 mintues it works!  Now time to try MVC again, crossing my fingers…. it worked to!  Yay!  Time to put back my precious add-ons and voila, that’s all there is to it.  Nothing that can’t be accomplished in a morning.

More to come, but at least now I can get some real work going.