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.NET 3.5 source code is available officially ...

You'll need to install a hot fix first ... once you sign in using your Windows Live account, (and possibly updating your profile like I had to), you'll run the install.

Don't bother with the File Transfer Manager. It's definitely overkill for this 1.17MB file. Just click the Download link I've highlighted (it took 10-15 seconds before the standard download dialog appeared).

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It unfortunately defaults to unpacking files in the root directory of your primary drive so be sure to put it somewhere else (or remember to delete the files when you're done):

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It unpacks the hotfix file into the directory you specified:

VS90-KB944899.exe

Run that.

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Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait!

It took my machine about 5 minutes to run the patch for some reason.

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I don't understand how a 1.17 MB patch could take so long ...?

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Then you can follow the instructions on Shawn Burke's blog to finish.

The only problem I encountered was that until I stepped into the framework code once, I wasn't able to just double-click on a call stack entry to view the source. VS would prompt me for the location for the source. Once I did stepped in, accepted the EULA, it worked like a charm!

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