Installing .NET Source Code (RSCC)

Question

I have been trying for the last hour to get downloadable .NET source code installed on my local computer and it seems to be broken.

I install the .NET v8.0 file from here , and after installation the following files are created:

 -Readme.txt
 - (Source)
 - (DotNET)
 --- (8.0)
 ---- source.zip.tmp
 - (Symbols)
 --pingme.txt
 - (000Admin)
 --- 0000000001
 --- history.txt
 --- lastid.txt
 --- server.txt

I can’t imagine that it’s right - right? I would have thought there would be some kind of pdb files, at least ... It certainly doesn't work.

A little research stopped this link , where the guy says this is due to date formatting. I really do not want to rewrite the installer like him, but I tried to set my region to English-American (from the UK) and set the date format without success. If this were a problem, I would expect to find more links to it.

So my questions are:

• Is the file structure correct?
• If not, and you have successfully installed the file, what are your system culture settings?

Bonus question:

• Any idea, specifically, what are the differences between files accessible from RSCC? I can not find the documentation to tell me what is worth installing.

For reference, I am running Visual Studio 2008 on XP with all service packs and patches.

Answer 1

There seem to be two settings: one to download all the files and the other to get them on demand. When I tried this, I used the netmassdownloader project of the code project, which received all the pdb files for me, but it still does not look to enter the code.

Edit: The source.zip.tmp file is 140 MB, and it looks like it should have been unpacked by the installation. Someone wrote about it here .

6/6/2014 - now this is a bit of an old answer, so just notice that Microsoft has a new website to view the original source here . Apparently, the old method used to break when installing updates / patches has been resolved, but I'm not sure if this is a completely standalone solution.