I'm just about to get a new laptop which will be running Vista. This got me thinking about the installation order for VS2005. There are so many bits and pieces to install, but what is the correct order. This is what I'm thinking.
- Vista
- IIS
- Sql Server 2005
- Visual Studio 2005 Team System
- Visual Studio 2005 MSDN documentation
- Visual Studio for Database Professionals
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 - Update to Support Web Application Projects (this is included in VS SP1) - Sql Server 2005 SP2
- Visual Studio SP1
- Database Professionals SP1 (SR1)
- Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WF
- Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WCF, WPF
- .Net 3.0 SDK
- Visual Studio 2005 Update for Vista
Any pointers?
Gert Drapers from the Visual Studio Database Professionals team replied to an email of mine to indicate this order:
- SQL Server 2005
- Visual Studio 2005
- Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
- Visual Studio 2005 SP1
- Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Vista patch
- SQL Server 2005 SP2
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