With Visual Studio 2008 SP1 shipping, Dynamic data wizard (preview) installer for SP1 can be downloaded from Codeplex.

To install the Dynamic Data Wizard, follow these steps:

  1. Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1.
  2. Download Wizard from Codeplex
  3. Unzip the .zip file into a folder on your computer.
  4. From either a VS 2008 command prompt (elevated command prompt for Vista) or .NET Framework 2.0 SDK command prompt, move to that folder and run Install.cmd.

Known installation issues:

  • Starting this release wizard may not execute correctly on VS SP1 Beta
  • Also may not execute correctly if only framework is upgraded to .Net 3.5 SP1. If only .Net framework is upgraded to SP1 you may receive a dialog box at the finish of wizard "Could not reformat the document. The original format was restored.".
    To resolve this issue upgrade to VS 2008 SP1.
  • Don't use the uninstall script from any of the previous Dynamic data releases for VS SP1 Beta to uninstall the wizard after VS 2008 SP1 upgrade is complete.