MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008

RobH · 16 Apr 2008 at 18:21

I'm new to Visual Studio being a Java developer and I've just completed setup, the setup DVD also has an installer for "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008" but I have a seperate DVD with the same thing on, do I just install the one on the seperate DVD? I have a feeling that they are the same thing or at least different versions of the same thing so I don't want to install both and find out that I've got two copies. Can anyone help?

Thanks

ringo747 · 16 Apr 2008 at 18:26

As far as I remember the content spans across 2 DVDs so maybe run the installer first and then you will be prompted for DVD 2. Not sure but it may be the case

RobH · 16 Apr 2008 at 18:36

Well they are DVD ISOs from MSDN and they were seperate downloads, one is marked as Visual Studio 2008 and there is a seperate disk labelled "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008" with it's own installer but the first disk also has an enrty for "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008" I didn't want to have a redundant copy of it if it's the same.

ringo747 · 16 Apr 2008 at 18:43

And on the installer when you click "install msdn library" does it not prompt you to insert the other disk?

Conrad11 · 16 Apr 2008 at 18:53

ringo747 said:
And on the installer when you click "install msdn library" does it not prompt you to insert the other disk?

Should do this iirc

~J~ · 16 Apr 2008 at 20:11

I installed VS2008 yesterday from my MSDN subscription.

Comes on 1 DVD, installed the full suite AND the MSDN library with no change of media at all!

Eriedor · 16 Apr 2008 at 20:13

Asked me for another DVD when trying to install MSDN from VS2K8 installer.

~J~ · 16 Apr 2008 at 20:15

Don't know if it helps, but the label on my DVD is "en_visual_studio_2008_professional_x86_x64wow_dvd_X14-26326"

RobH · 16 Apr 2008 at 20:44

I've installed the seperate DVD with it's installer and it seems fine, when I run the installer on the first disk it see's that it is already installed. The two disks I had were:

en_visual_studio_2008_professional_x86_x64wow_dvd_X14-26326

and

en_msdn_library_for_visual_studio_2008_x86_x64wow_dvd_X14-29217

ringo747 · 16 Apr 2008 at 22:14

~J~ said:
I installed VS2008 yesterday from my MSDN subscription.

Comes on 1 DVD, installed the full suite AND the MSDN library with no change of media at all!

You sure it just isn't accessing the web based MSDN through the VS help?

~J~ · 16 Apr 2008 at 22:32

ringo747 said:
You sure it just isn't accessing the web based MSDN through the VS help?

Nope, just looked on the DVD now...

DVD size is 3,554,287,616bytes

has the following directories:

msdn (2,144,964,813 bytes)
program files (2,126,968 bytes)
remote debugger (11,901,440 bytes)
samples (639 bytes)
setup (10,605,852 bytes)
wcu (819,163,957 bytes)

Definately full MSDN on this DVD, nearly 2Gb of it off the root directory.

ringo747 · 16 Apr 2008 at 23:35

ah right ok - not sure what the pros and cons are of each but im just using web based at the moment.

voodooflux · 17 Apr 2008 at 12:02

Looking at the download page for MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 the ISO there looks to be named VS2008MSDNLibraryENUX1429217.iso. According to that page this is "an updated version of the MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008."

Now that ISO number looks to be a match for the disk ID of the standalone version of the library (en_msdn_library_for_visual_studio_2008_x86_x64wow_ dvd_X14-29217) so it might just be that the standalone DVD is an update to the original library that ships on the VS2008 DVD?

RobH · 17 Apr 2008 at 13:04

voodooflux said:
Now that ISO number looks to be a match for the disk ID of the standalone version of the library (en_msdn_library_for_visual_studio_2008_x86_x64wow_ dvd_X14-29217) so it might just be that the standalone DVD is an update to the original library that ships on the VS2008 DVD?

Yeah, that matches the ISO that I have and it was not part of the VS2008 download so I think it could be an updated or expanded version of the one of the VS2008 disk. After I installed the standalone version the VS2008 disk detected that the library was already installed.