HOWTO: Setting Up Visual Studio onto Multiple Smaller DrivesLast reviewed: October 10, 1997Article ID: Q166237 |
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SUMMARYWith Visual Studio 97 you get a vast and comprehensive visual tool set to develop internet solutions and windows applications. In addition to providing the tools needed for application development, Visual Studio also provides a shared environment (IDE) for developing and debugging source code written in Visual C++, Visual J++ or Visual InterDev. Visual Studio also provides database support through Microsoft Visual FoxPro, and also for Microsoft Access through Visual Basic and Visual C++. The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Library provides tool-specific documentation, as well as comprehensive information. The Enterprise version also includes Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, a common source-code tool that supports projects written in any Visual Studio language, and also Microsoft SQL Server. Visual Studio requires a lot of disk space. An installation of all products in Visual Studio is going to use more than 1 GBytes of hard disk space. The simplest installation method is to install all components into the same (large) hard drive. However, if you only have smaller drives, or have several drives, each of which only has a few hundred megabyte free, then you have to install some of the components onto separate drives.
MORE INFORMATIONThere are two complementary problems with installing the components of Visual Studio onto several drives:
When you do a custom install of Visual C++, Visual J++, or Visual InterDev, you are given a choice of where to install these shared components. Once you install any product that installs some of the shared components, any subsequent products you install will use the same directory when installing additional shared components. Plan on using about 300 MBytes disk space for the shared components. Expect to use more if you are going to install all of the online books to the hard drive instead of using the CDROM. Expect to use less if you are not loading any books onto the hard drive, or not installing all of the products. For these reasons, the following is a suggested method of installation:
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