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amrameshreddy.blog.com450 APPENDIX C ■ WCF AND .NET FRAMEWORK INSTALLATION STEPSramrameshreddy.blog.comInstalling .NET Framework 3.0 Development ToolsThe .NET Framework 3.0 Development Tools provide the necessary template and add-in supportfor creating and managing projects that target the .NET 3.0 managed API extensions.These are supported only with Visual Studio 2005.The installation is again straightforward with few options available. Launch the installerpackage, which you obtain directly from Microsoft. If you’ve installed the Visual Studio documentation,you’ll jump right into the installation process.After clicking through the welcome screen, you’re prompted for the obligatory licensingagreement. Choose to accept or exit the installation; if you exit now, then you won’t have projectand add-in support inside Visual Studio 2005.If you’ve decided not to install the Visual Studio 2005 documentation, you’ll be presentedwith a message box or two indicating such, as shown in Figure C-3.Figure C-3. .NET 3.0 Visual Studio extensions warning of no documentationRegardless of whether the documentation is missing, you can still develop .NET 3.0 applications;you just lose the support of the integrated documentation within Visual Studio (or,more precisely, the MSDN local documentation).During the installation, if you’ve installed the documentation, the MSDN collectionmerge will take place. That process can be time-consuming and depends upon the resourcesavailable on your machine (CPU, RAM, and so on).Once the installation completes, you should verify whether the installation is complete.First, launch Visual Studio (Start ➤ All Programs ➤ Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 ➤ MicrosoftVisual Studio 2005). Start a new project (File ➤ New ➤ Project), and confirm the existence ofthe .NET 3.0 templates. Figure C-4 shows the templates for C# and Windows (.NET 3.0).ramrameshreddyramrameshreddy