Scenarios where .NET Framework 3.5 setup tries to connect to the Internet and how to avoid them

re: Scenarios where .NET Framework 3.5 setup tries to connect to the Internet and how to avoid them

Tanveer Badar — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:46:35 GMT

What about the case when setup tries to send feedback about setup experience? I don't know the switch for it, but it is after the whole affair is over.

re: Scenarios where .NET Framework 3.5 setup tries to connect to the Internet and how to avoid them

astebner — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:49:37 GMT

Hi Tanveer Badar - The .NET Framework 3.5 setup package is supposed to be configured so that it won't send feedback after successful installations in silent mode - it should only attempt to send feedback after failed installs.

To control this behavior, you can open the file setup.sdb, locate the section named [VSSetupWatson] and set all of the Enabled and Headless values to 0 (they are set to 1 by default).

You also should be able to set registry values to control these settings if you'd prefer to do that instead of changing setup data files. The registry values look like the following:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\PCHealth\ErrorReporting\DW\VSSetup\Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5\3.5.21022.08_ORCAS_X86_NET]

VSSWSectionEnabled=0 (REG_DWORD)

VSSWUXEnabled=0 (REG_DWORD)

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re: Scenarios where .NET Framework 3.5 setup tries to connect to the Internet and how to avoid them

eleasar — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:54:22 GMT

BIG thx for this blog post! I did look for two evenings to get .NET framework installed on a virtual machine. It always got stuck on the part where it did try to connect to some microsoft site to download an update (for whatever reason it did get stuck there - downloading via FF/IE was just fine)!

After extracting the full installer and also within there the other installer it and putting the language switch in place (and not using the /web switch) all went smooth and fine!!