Manual Installation Instructions for
Express Editions
This page provides instructions for
manually installing an Express Edition.
Installation Options
The
recommended option for installing Express Editions
is to use the bootstrapper installer that is
available via the "Download Now" link on each
Express Edition page.
If
the bootstrapper installer fails to install on your
computer because of networking problems, or if you
want to download a full copy of an Express Edition
to burn on CD, then please follow the manual
installation instructions listed below.
After
following the manual installation instructions,
please be sure to register your copy of Express.
You'll get a lot of free stuff such as royalty-free
images from Corbis, icons from IconBuffet, and
e-books from Microsoft Press.
Learn more about registration benefits.
File Packaging and Download Paths
Each Express Edition is packaged in
its entirety, including all optional components, as
an image (img or iso) file. Below are links to the
individual image files for each Express Edition.
Manual Installation Options
Manually
Installing an Express Edition on a local machine
Burning
a Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition to a CD
Installing
an Express Edition from CD
Manually Installing an
Express Edition on a local machine
Below are the steps required to
manually install an Express Edition:
Note: The steps below use the
img file as an example
Before
you get started, make sure to
uninstall all pre-release (beta) Express software
from your computer.
You must uninstall all Visual Studio 2005 and
Express betas before installing a final release of
any Visual Studio 2005 Edition, including an Express
Edition. You must also uninstall the beta
version of the .NET Framework 2.0 before installing
any Express Edition final release.
Download
the Express Edition Image (img) file using the
hyperlinks provided in the File Packaging and
Download Paths section.
To
install the image directly from your hard drive you
will need to install 3rd party software that is
capable of understanding *.img file extensions.
Popular software programs like
Roxio’s Easy Media Creator include a
Disk Image Loader application that enables you
to mount disc image files in a virtual drive as if
they were physical discs in a physical drive. For
the example below, we will use Smart-Projects.net
IsoBuster 1.8.
Be
sure to set the tool to handle long file names. The
default setting for many third party tools does not
handle long file names. Some tools extract using the
8.3 file convention. Visual Studio 2005 setup
requires the files to be in their long filename
format or else setup will fail. This feature can
usually be found in the Advanced settings. If you
can not find the setting, please refer to the ISO
extraction tool help documentation or contact the
software vendor for assistance.
In
the IsoBuster setup, make sure to select the “(*.IMG)
Image files” file extensions to associate
IsoBuster with img file extensions.
IsoBuster setup options for
associating file extensions.
After
installing IsoBuster, you will notice that files
with a .img extension are now associated to open
with IsoBuster as shown below:
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
Image file.
Double
click on the img file to start IsoBuster. You should
see something similar to the screenshot below with a
list of files contained inside the img file in the
right hand pane.
List of files in the Visual Web
Developer .img image.
Select
all the files in the right hand side by clicking
CTRL+A:
Select all files in the Visual Web
Developer .img image.
Right
click on the selected files and you will see a
context menu to extract the selected objects. Click
the “Extract Objects” option in the context
menu.
Context menu for extracting files.
Next,
select the folder to extract the contents of the
image file as shown below and click OK.
Browse for Folder dialog.
This
will start the extraction process of the image files
as shown below. Extracting the contents from the
image file typically takes five minutes.
Image extraction progress dialog.
After
the extraction process is complete, navigate to the
directory you chose to extract the files in the
previous step and click the setup.exe file to
begin the Express Edition installer.
Setup icon to start Express
installation.
If
you encounter issues installing a Visual Studio
Express Edition, please visit the
Express Forums for more help.
Burning a Visual Studio
2005 Express Edition to a CD
Below are the steps required to burn
an Express Edition to a CD.
Before
you get started, make sure to
uninstall all Express beta software from your
computer.
You must uninstall all Visual Studio 2005 and
Express betas before installing a final release of
any Visual Studio 2005 Edition, including an Express
Edition. You must also uninstall the beta
version of the .NET Framework 2.0 before installing
any Express Edition final release.
Download
the Express Edition Image (img or iso) file using
the hyperlinks provided in the File Packaging and
Download Paths section above.
To
burn the image directly to a CD, you will need to
install 3rd party software that is capable of
understanding and burning image (img or iso) files.
Most popular CD burning software include support for
burning images, as do popular CD burning software
such as
Nero 6 Ultra Edition and
Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5.
Follow
the vendor-specific instructions to burn the image
onto a CD.
Installing an Express
Edition from CD
After
following the CD burning process above, you are
ready to install the Express Edition on another
computer.
Important: Before getting started, you will need
to perform a series of preparation steps on your
machine if you ever installed a pre-release of
Visual Studio 2005 (such as Beta 2) on your machine.
Please follow
these important instructions prior to
installation.
Now
simply insert the CD created above into the computer
to which you plan to install and click the setup.exe
file to begin the installer.
If you encounter issues installing
the Express Editions, please visit the
Express Forums and report your issue for more
assistance.
