Installing Management Studio on my PC.

  •  I am installing the Management Studio for 2005 on my XP SP2 PC. I have found that it requires that Visual Studio 2005 be installed as a prereq. There is an option for custom to install pieces and parts of this as well. I guess I don't fully understand why I have to have a 2 gig Visual Studio install on my PC to simply administer SQL Servers. Are there some specific pieces that I can install in Visual Studio and not the entire product ?

  • I feel that its required .net framework which will be installed by SQL 2005 Setup CD itself.

    Where exactly did you find this information?

  • On the install DVD. It first wanted the 2.0 .net installed, that is fine then it said I needed Visual Studio installed and gave me options of full install or custom and stated the amt of space req. for the install.

  • if it finds VS2005 installed, it can add the components for SSIS (format dts), reporting server apps and the olap dev stuff.

    Else it installs it all if you choose so.

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