Question

After downloading the workbook example source-code for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015-2017 Community Ed., and installing, configuring, and running Visual Studio with ASP.NET developers kit, develop and construct an APA formatted paper (also use LIRN (or JSTOR), Internet, and the textbook) that provides a detailed analysis of the following concepts:

• The importance and proper of data validation for applications

• The use of state(s), object(s) and their relationship to ASP.NET

• Strategies for the use and implementation of master pages to enhance content

• Implementation and use of Bootstrap in ASP.NET and strategies for generating HTML dynamically to enhance default styles

• Advantages of using the FriendlyUrls feature in automating applications

• The use of ADO.net in database programming  

Answer 1

I have followed the instructions for offline installation and imported the certs etc. Still, on a machine without internet connection the installation fails. This has caused me major headaches as the failed installation corrupted my dev machine. Installation log attached below:

The product failed to install the listed workloads and components due to one or more package failures. Incomplete workloads .NET Core cross-platform development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetCoreTools,version=15.0.26323.1) .NET desktop development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop,version=15.0.26412.1) ASP.NET and web development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb,version=15.0.26412.1) Azure development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Azure,version=15.0.26412.1) Data storage and processing (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Data,version=15.0.26208.0) Universal Windows Platform development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Universal,version=15.0.26403.0) Incomplete components .NET desktop development tools (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.ManagedDesktop.Prerequisites,version=15.0.26323.1) ASP.NET and web development tools (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Web,version=15.0.26323.1) Azure Cloud Services core tools (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.Waverton,version=15.0.26208.0) Azure Cloud Services tools (Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.Azure.CloudServices,version=15.0.26208.0) Azure Data Lake Tools (Microsoft.Component.Azure.DataLake.Tools,version=15.0.26208.0) Azure development prerequisites (Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.Azure.Prerequisites,version=15.0.26323.1) Azure Resource Manager core tools (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Azure.ResourceManager.Tools,version=15.0.26208.0) Azure Resource Manager tools (Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.Azure.ResourceManager.Tools,version=15.0.26323.1) C# and Visual Basic (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Roslyn.LanguageServices,version=15.0.26208.0) Data sources for SQL Server support (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.SQL.DataSources,version=15.0.26208.0) Live Unit Testing (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.LiveUnitTesting,version=15.0.26208.0) Managed Desktop Workload Core (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.ManagedDesktop.Core,version=15.0.26419.1) Microsoft Test Manager (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TestTools.MicrosoftTestManager,version=15.0.26228.0) OzCode (Component.6c84f75d-38c3-48a2-9e54-d362238686b5,version=3.0.0.3597) PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio 2017 (Component.PowerShellTools.VS2017,version=3.0.539) ReadyRoll for VS2017 (Component.Redgate.ReadyRoll,version=1.13.23.3401) SQL Prompt Core (Component.Redgate.SQLPrompt.VsPackage,version=7.5.1.1087) SQL Search (Component.Redgate.SQLSearch.VSExtension,version=2.4.2.1321) SQL Server Data Tools (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.SQL.SSDT,version=15.0.26208.0) Testing tools core features (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TestTools.Core,version=15.0.26208.0) Universal Windows Platform tools (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.UWP.Support,version=15.0.26412.1) Universal Windows Platform tools for Xamarin (Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.UWP.Xamarin,version=15.0.26403.0) Web performance and load testing tools (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.TestTools.WebLoadTest,version=15.0.26208.0) Windows Communication Foundation (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Wcf.Tooling,version=15.0.26208.0) Windows Workflow Foundation (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.Workflow,version=15.0.26208.0) You can search for solutions using the information below, modify your selections for the above workloads and components and retry the installation, or remove the product from your machine. Following is a collection of individual package failures that led to the incomplete workloads and components above. To search for existing reports of these specific problems, please copy and paste the URL from each package failure into a web browser. If the issue has already been reported, you can find solutions or workarounds there. If the issue has not been reported, you can create a new issue where other people will be able to find solutions or workarounds.