Download the ISO instead of doing the installs over the net as it is highly likely that more than one installation attempt will be needed to get everything installed.
- Install Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Beta 2 from ISO (if virtually mounting the disk, make the mount persistent as there is a reboot halfway through the install and if the disk is not present, the install bails).
- Uninstall “Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2″ but not “Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 – VWD Express 2010 Tools”. The VWD 2010 Express Beta 2 comes with a version of ASP.NET MVC that is pre-RC.
- Install AspNetMVC2_RC2_VS2008.exe (yes, that is the correct version for ASP.NET MVC 2 RC even though it has 2008 in the name).
- If “Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools Beta 2″ does not show up in Add/Remove Programs then force it to install by opening a command prompt and going to the \VWDExpress\wcu\EFTools directory of the CD and running ADONETEntityFrameworkTools_enu.msi USING_EXUIH=1 /log “dd_ADONETEntityFrameworkTools_enu_MSI.txt”
ADONETEntityFrameworkTools_enu.msi USING_EXUIH=1 /log “dd_ADONETEntityFrameworkTools_enu_MSI.txt”
is your cd writeable mine is not ? how can it write to the text file
v bab
26 Mar 10 at 1:40 am
I used the ISO image and likely copied the .msi file elsewhere. You should be able to change the command line to something like:
ADONETEntityFrameworkTools_enu.msi USING_EXUIH=1 /log “c:\dd_ADONETEntityFrameworkTools_enu_MSI.txt”
And run it from the unwriteable location. I haven’t tried that though…
Cymen
31 Mar 10 at 11:46 am
Or you could leave off the log part completely — rereading what I wrote, that is probably what I did.
Cymen
31 Mar 10 at 1:00 pm