ISSUE DESCRIPTION:
Installation of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 fails with error ‘The pipe is being closed’
ENVIRONMENT:
Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and x64)
Windows 8 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
Windows Server 2012 (x64)
SYMPTOM:
The Installation of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 fails with errors ‘The pipe is being closed’ for several components and then finally with ‘User Cancelled Installation’ (I know you didn’t cancel the installation!!).
RESOLUTION:
To resolve this, you first need to download the complete .iso file for the update 3 from this direct link http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=301705
Once you have this downloaded, and extracted/mounted/burnt you need to open an administrative CMD window and navigate to ...\packages\WinACK\ and install these 2 patches:
I. Windows App Certification Kit x64-x86_en-us.msp
II. Windows App Certification Kit Native Components-x64_en-us.msp
Having installed this, you can then run the setup for Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 using the same .iso file that you had downloaded.
Content by-
Ritwik Sinha