I’ve run into a few quirks installing Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 8. The first is that the ISO image doesn’t appear to use the NTFS file system and Windows 8 will not mount the image because of that. Fortunately, my Win8 install is a VM which allows me to mount the image on my host PC and run from there.
Once I ran it that way, the installer started and ran partway through; however, it ended prematurely with an error that it couldn’t find a required object. Looking through the error logs didn’t give me enough detail to resolve it. When I clicked the provided link to look for common solutions, I found others had the same issue (with screenshots to match).
Right now, the only solid way that many people have come to install is to use the Web installer. It works but it’s slow. If I find an update that solves the .ISO install problem, I’ll post an update here.
