Visual C# Express 201x Still Available somewhere?
#1
Posted 12 December 2017 - 09:43 AM
Do I have any options?
Paul
#3
Posted 14 December 2017 - 05:42 AM
#4
Posted 14 December 2017 - 06:28 AM
farrmp, on 12 December 2017 - 09:43 AM, said:
Do I have any options?
Where exactly did you get this 8 GB number from? As far as I can tell, the installation size of the components needed for Open Rails (which is just the ".NET desktop development" workload) is 2.8 GB, although there might be a bit more for the core IDE (but certainly not another 5 GB).
#5
Posted 14 December 2017 - 11:22 AM
I actually went ahead and installed Visual Studio 2017 -Community Edition- using the default installation (Not Custom).
The Installer then informed me that the installation would require approximately 8.33 GB of disk space did I want to continue? Yes. I watched as it installed and about 90% of the Installed Components I will NEVER use. (SQL, SQL Server, Visual Basic Etc.,Etc., Etc.)
Thank you Carlo for warning me about registering. I do NOT normally connect my Win7 computer to the internet--I missed that point!
Paul
#6
Posted 14 December 2017 - 11:51 AM
farrmp, on 14 December 2017 - 11:22 AM, said:
The 2017 requirement to register kicks in a month after installation, but it's been pretty innocuous - not the deluge of marketing I was fearing.
#7
Posted 14 December 2017 - 01:45 PM
farrmp, on 14 December 2017 - 11:22 AM, said:
Once Visual Studio Community 2017 is installed, you can use Visual Studio Installer to customize your installation, and remove everything you did not use.
#8
Posted 14 December 2017 - 02:10 PM
#9
Posted 14 December 2017 - 02:18 PM
farrmp, on 14 December 2017 - 11:22 AM, said:
The Installer then informed me that the installation would require approximately 8.33 GB of disk space did I want to continue? Yes. I watched as it installed and about 90% of the Installed Components I will NEVER use. (SQL, SQL Server, Visual Basic Etc.,Etc., Etc.)
I don't remember there being a default, as it specifically has the workloads (the primary options in the installer) so it only installs what you need. I suggest you open the installer again and show us what you've got installed, because it's entirely possible you've selected a whole bunch of unnecessary things. You can also fine tune beyond the workloads, since I expect the ".NET desktop development" does include a few SQL-related things you don't need, but I still can't see that workload alone being 8 GB right now.
#10
Posted 15 December 2017 - 07:29 AM
farrmp, on 12 December 2017 - 09:43 AM, said:
Sorry you were misled. That information on the website was out of date - my fault I'm afraid. We updated the detailed information http://openrails.org...code/#compiling when we changed to VS 2015/17 but I forgot that Visual C# Express was also mentioned at http://openrails.org/download/source/
I've replaced the out-of-date info with a link to the good detail (and committed the change to SVN). There's already a note there about using less disk space.