

Make sure that there’s no proxy/rule/policy/antivirus on your machine/network which may block the process from downloading the packages. I suggest first verify that you have enough disk space(C drive) and then try to check the network connection, make sure it’s stable and try to connect to use another network.

Is there any detailed error message? There are many reasons which may cause the process to stop. The Sandboxie solution is to exclude the source folders from the sandbox.I have verified that the command which you are using is correct. Thus by default capturing also all your work inside the sandbox. The disadvantage of this method is that it forces running Visual Studio from the sandbox, Revo Uninstaller Freeware (with careful attention before deleting).Īs a precaution, take a system restore point before starting or, even better, It first on the target computer using an uninstaller such as Since in your case Visual Studio Express is already installed, it might be safer to uninstall Thus capturing all modifications done by it to the disk and the registry. You would therefore run the installation of Visual Studio and enable it inside the sandbox, These disk and registry updates are placed by default in the folderĬ:\Sandbox\\, so one can in effect copy them from one computer to another. In a manner that is entirely transparent to these programs. Sandboxie redirects all disk and registry updates of sandboxed programs to its own files, You could use Sandboxie just as you would a virtual machine, as a much more lightweight method. You now have a portable installation of Visual Studio Express/Community that you can take with you Install Visual Studio Express/Community and permanently enable it using your Microsoft Live account. On a host computer that has Internet connection. If you have a spare Windows serial number, you can construct a Windows virtual machine Both versions use identical methods of activation, and there are rumors thatĬommunity will replace Express in the future. In the Visual Studio Gallery, making this edition more useful than Visual Studio Express which cannot use extensions. You might prefer Visual Studio Community 2013 to Express, because it supports the plugins

However, I list below some workarounds to the problem. As far as I know, there is no hack to permanently and offline enable Visual Studio 2012/2013 Express.
