Extracting the Visual Studio 2005 Team System SP1 VPC image

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 10/10/2007]  MSDN has been updated with a new set of files with the naming issue corrected (see forum post).  It may take a few days for it to propogate to all of the MSDN servers. 

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Reid, a customer, sent me email about a problem with using the Visual Studio 2005 Team System SP1 VPC image from the MSDN subscription site.  I forwarded the email and found out that folks are looking into it.  Until it gets fixed, here’s the process to successfully extract the image.

The files listed for download for the SP1 image are:

en_visual_studio_2005_team_system_with_service_pack_1_rtm_vpc_1of3.exe

en_visual_studio_2005_team_system_with_service_pack_1_rtm_vpc_2of3.rar

en_visual_studio_2005_team_system_with_service_pack_1_rtm_vpc_3of3.rar

However, to get the .exe to extract the necessary files you need to do some file renaming to get the files to extract correctly.  The changes are all in the “x of y” portions of the file names.

Rename

en_visual_studio_2005_team_system_with_service_pack_1_rtm_vpc_1of3.exe

to

en_visual_studio_2005_team_system_with_service_pack_1_rtm_vpc_1of1.exe

Rename

en_visual_studio_2005_team_system_with_service_pack_1_rtm_vpc_2of3.rar

to

en_visual_studio_2005_team_system_with_service_pack_1_rtm_vpc_1of2.rar

Rename

en_visual_studio_2005_team_system_with_service_pack_1_rtm_vpc_3of3.rar

to

en_visual_studio_2005_team_system_with_service_pack_1_rtm_vpc_1of3.rar

Hopefully, it won’t be long until the problem is fixed, and this becomes unnecessary.  Thanks for sharing this, Reid.

Buck Hodges Director of Engineering, Azure

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