Deploying Visual Studio 2008 Express via Microsoft Deployment
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 just interested in c#). [...]