Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Installing Microsoft visual studio 2005 for ASP.NET

Why is this writeup?
- Brother, it will save you lot of time.

Microsoft visual studio 2005 setup on Windows Server 2003
Step 1. first install MVS 2005 - 8.0
Step 2. install hotfix to let service pack install properly
WindowsServer2003-KB925336-x86-ENU.exe
Step 3. download service pack and install it - VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU.exe
Step 4. “c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /Setup”.

Step 2 is required for Service Pack 1 to install properly.
Step 3 is to get ASP.Net web application template to be installed and other things. which is needed to create ASP.NET website project.
Step 4.
This command will flush the Visual Studio template cache and ensure that the projects work correctly.

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