A UK college recently e-mailed me asking for help deploying Visual Basic Express 2008.  Here are the basic steps to extracting an MSI from the 2008 Express ISO. Download the Visual Studio 2008 Express ISO to your local system and mount it using something like MagicDisk. Locate the “VBExpress” directory and copy it somewhere locally. [...]

So, you want to deploy VS2008 Express? – I did (We use it in our testing VMs). 1: Download the offline installer First things first, get the offline installer for Visual Studio 2008 Express. 2: Extract the files from the ISO Grab whichever edition you want to deploy from the ISO you’ve just downloaded (i’m [...]