Remote (not INet) library?

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Tim Coker - 20 Jul 2006 14:15 GMT

I have a couple of boxes set up that run visual studio 2005/2003 and 6. I
don't want the full library for each of these products installed locally.
The issue is these machines can't access the internet, but are connected to
our network. I was wondering if there was a way to install the library one a
server and have the boxes connect to the server for the MSDN library content.

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Andrew - 26 Jul 2006 20:01 GMT

> I have a couple of boxes set up that run visual studio 2005/2003 and 6. I
> don't want the full library for each of these products installed locally.
> The issue is these machines can't access the internet, but are connected to
> our network. I was wondering if there was a way to install the library one a
> server and have the boxes connect to the server for the MSDN library content.

I haven't tried this with VS 6 - but with 2003 and 2005...

I have a few different PC and a number of VM's... When I install the
library on a new one I do a full install, but point it at the same share
that all the others are using ... So they all end up using one copy and it
works great.

There may be a shortcut to installing the full thing but I don't know for
sure.. It's also possible that you may be able to install the most minimal
install on all of them except the 1st one.. then when you load up VS (at
least 2005) it might detect the full thing and use it.

Of course the other shortcut is what I usually do for new VM's is clone the
machine with VS already installed and expecting the MSDN library at the
given share point.

Cheers

- Andrew

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