22 thoughts on “How to install DotNet 2.0 or 3.5 on Windows 8”

1. hlainghtet November 14, 2011 at 3:25 am

   Here’s the exact point.
   We’re here because we’re trying to find out a solution about installing NET.Framework 3.5 without accessing the internet. Is it possible or is it not, right ?

   So the relevant answer is should be possible or impossible, right ?
   If it is possible, how then ?

   I have the same problem too, and figuring out is still a matter for me.
   Maybe microsoft made it so,

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2. Jason January 29, 2012 at 11:25 pm

   DISM failed with Error: 0x800f0906. I found a workaround to install DotNet 3.5 offline.
   dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /all /source:YourWindowsCDPath\sources\sxs. HTH

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4. shkir March 24, 2012 at 6:04 am

   I am running the dism command and it’s working for me now, thank you

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5. shkir March 24, 2012 at 6:05 am

   The most important is open the cmd as admin

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6. Albert March 28, 2012 at 6:21 am

   Thanks, the offline solution is working for me.
   1.x:\sources\SxS is the path to your mounted ISO.
   2. make sure the command is all on one line.

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7. Mishael May 19, 2012 at 10:11 pm

   I tried it and cmd wrote “The online/enable-feature/featurename option is unknown”.

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8. Swathi Rajanna June 3, 2012 at 8:40 pm

   Note the space. It should be “online /enable-feature /featurename” and so on.

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9. Shean June 6, 2012 at 5:12 am

   Thanks, it works! Installing DotNet on Windows is always a pain.

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11. Sujan Thapa June 16, 2012 at 5:16 am

    Thank you so much. It also worked to me.

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12. Muhammad S. Attari June 19, 2012 at 8:25 pm

    Thanks for all.
    the source path will be in the format:
    “c:\dotnet35\”?

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13. Muhammad S. Attari June 19, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    I used the following code:

    Dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:c:\net35 /LimitAccess

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14. wajeeh July 11, 2012 at 6:33 am

    how long does it takes to install i am stuck at 66.5 % for around 10 mins

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15. Yareslk September 11, 2012 at 9:51 pm

    I have over 2o computers to install OS and dotnet3.5.
    Its very painful to install manually on all those 20 machines.
    Is there a way to edit the installation image(install.wim) so that dotnet 3.5 is installed by default same as dotnet 4.5.
    Any advice much appreciated.

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16. DevOneNote Post authorSeptember 15, 2012 at 7:34 am

    @Yareslk, you can use dism.exe to do offline dotnet 4.5 installation on wim files.

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17. Yoav September 28, 2012 at 6:01 am

    I notice you didn’t mention .NET 4.0. Where can i get 4.0.

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18. DevOneNote Post authorOctober 1, 2012 at 9:06 am

    @Yoav, 4.0 is contained in 4.5. Actually 4.5 is an in-place update to 4.0, so it replaces 4.0 with newer assemblies, plus some 4.5 assemblies. The runtime version of 4.5 is 4.0.30319. It’s supposed to be 100% backwards compatible.

    More info can be found from the Microsoft CLR team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2011/09/26/compatibility-of-net-framework-4-5.aspx

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19. Anonymous October 7, 2012 at 6:14 am

    I already deleted the source ISO.

    I am running on a VM which does not have internet access. Is there any orther workaround?

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20. Owais October 15, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Thanks a bunch dude. You saved my day

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21. ike November 16, 2012 at 3:53 am

    It went upto 99.8% then this error: 0×80004005
    dism failed. No operationwas performed.

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22. juniorfga December 29, 2012 at 5:52 am

    Hi when i try to run this on a x64 machine it raises an error that says something like:
    Error: 11
    you cannot use dism of 32 bits on a OS x64
    use a DISM compatible with your architecture
    can you help me

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