Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 deployment guide
This guide is intended to serve as a collection of links to articles, tools, tips and tricks that explain how to deploy products in the Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 family. I will add links to this article as I write or find new content that addresses additional deployment scenarios.
Deploying Visual Studio 2005
- Creating an administrative install point for Visual Studio 2005
- Instructions for chaining installation of Visual Studio 2005 and MSDN
- How to perform a silent install of Visual Studio 2005 Team Explorer
- How to suppress reboots during Visual Studio 2005 unattended installation
- How to fix Visual Studio 2005 unattended installs on Windows Vista
- How to determine whether a VS 2005 product is installed on a computer
- How to silently install MSDN to a non-default location
- How to perform an unattended install of Visual Studio 2005 from a DVD-ROM drive
- How to perform an unattended uninstall of Visual Studio 2005
- How to perform a silent or unattended install of Visio for Enterprise Architects
- How to perform a silent install of the Visual C++ 8.0 runtime (vcredist) files
Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions
- How to create a combined network install point for all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions
- How to silently install Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions
- Creating a network install point for Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions
- How to perform a command line install of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Deploying the .NET Framework 2.0
- Available installation modes for the .NET Framework 2.0
- How to deploy the .NET Framework 2.0 using Group Policy
- How to deploy the .NET Framework 2.0 by using the MSI directly
- How to perform an unattended install of the .NET Framework 2.0 redistributable and SDK
- How to perform an unattended uninstall of the .NET Framework
- Sample code to detect .NET Framework install state and service pack level
- Available command line switches for .NET Framework 2.0 setup
- List of possible return codes from .NET Framework 2.0 setup
- How to perform a customized command line install for the .NET Framework SDK 2.0
- Information about deploying .NET Framework 2.0 language packs
- Pre-installation checks performed by .NET Framework 2.0 setup
- How to detect old beta versions when deploying the .NET Framework 2.0
- How to manage reboots when deploying the .NET Framework
- Checking for the .NET Framework at application runtime, not just at setup time
Official product readme files
- .NET Framework SDK 2.0 readme
- Visual Studio 2005 readme
- Visual Studio 2005 enterprise network deployment readme
Additional reference documentation