How to install

I. Downloading

Firstly, you need to download VSTS2008 image from Microsoft Downloads web site

Tools

For the overall success, you will probably use ReGet Deluxe 5.1  or later, and the only need to do be done is configure the new

download to use only one thread, which actually optimizes its performance over network.

Also, you require a registered version of IsoBuster 2.2 software, to dump this *somewhat not quite rarely broken* archive image to disk.

See how options for this download can be configured using ReGet Deluxe:

1. Start new download

2. In the opened window select circled checkbox

3. Set number of allowed simultaneous connection to 1

There are tons of other options just simply for all cases as proxies, firewalls, filters, etc.

4. Download it.

After download will be finished, it will be marked with green chech marks

II. Extraction

Load IMG file with IMG reader and extract it somewhere in you free space. Be aware of having at least 15Gb free

space for installation image, extracted files and VS install, if it would be installed all in one place.

III. Installlation

After install, you will notice that some files are corrupted (I'm not a pessimist :)), if you are lucky, you can

fix all of them in shipped Microsoft CAB files. I tested all of .CAB files with WinRAR achiever, and fix all corrupt 

files with Microsoft Cabinet SDK, just onpaching the content with Windows and repacking it with CABARC.EXE:

So, it is a hard work, but if you know how to handle it, its very simple!

I installed ALL from this broken image, so all worked just fine, except Crystal Reports

(because CR is a collection of bad programming goo).

Have luck!