Creating a new topic since my old one technically was solved and didn't want to get the 2 different issues confused.
See previous thread if interested first issue -http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/483582-ms-sql-2014-install-freezing
With the previousissue fixed (able to install/update/uninstall SQL properly), I tried to install SQL 2014 which seemed to work with no errors but then the program wouldn't open. After a few tries, I got it to throw an error (an error is better than nothing!)
The error that happened was
Microsoft Visual Studio Shell Isolated
Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application.
No searching around provided a clear solution though I tried a few (reinstalled Visual Studio, reinstalled .net, reinstalled SQL, deleted 12.0_config from the registry) and nothing worked.
Has anyone encountered this and...