Installing the .NET 3.0 Development Components

This section lists the general steps for installing the .NET 3.0 (WCF) development components. (Appendix C lists the detailed installation steps for the required components.) This is the required installation order:

  1. Install Visual Studio 2005 or .NET 2.0 SDK.

  2. Install the .NET Framework 3.0 RTC.

  3. Install the Windows SDK.

  4. Install the .NET Framework 3.0 Development Tools (if using Visual Studio).

At the time of this writing, Visual Studio 2005 has known compatibility issues with Vista. The Visual Studio 2005 team is working on a service pack to be available in 2007 to address these issues. Also note that ...

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