I thought my install was hung on the 3.5 step, because the progress indicator sat on it for at least 10 minutes. So I left it running went to the grocery. Came back and it had completed sucessfully. Must be something really hard about that step.

>It's supposed to install automatically, but so far I've installed on two different PCs and each one VS install hung when it got to the 3.5 Framework. I had to kill the setup process, reboot, and install the framework separate, then rerun the VS install.
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>>When you install VS2008, does it automatically install .Net Framework 3.5 at the same time? or do you have to do that separately?
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