Delphi Prism - Part 2: Installing

So continuing on from part 1

My machine (Windows Server 2008) already has Visual Studio 2008 installed, so this may be different for those who do not already have it. This will be a lot of pictures showing step-by-step the installation and my comments on that.

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The standard splash screen for any application.

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First window of the wizard installer. Interesting is the version number there—I wonder if "Onyx" is the codename for this product?

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Same as what is in license_??.rtf in the root of the disk.

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Enter key—what key? Damn, need to find the mail they sent me… Gmail here I come. Damn, no key in the mails they sent me. Okay, back to the Embarcadero site. Oh, look—I had to enter that manually. WTF, why don’t you send it to me when I click download? Oh well, guess I can’t get everything.

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This is interesting—since I have Visual Studio 2005 installed as well, it seems to integrate with that too (cool). I make this assumption because the shell on the disk is only for 2008. Silverlight support is also interesting.

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Mono license.

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Hey, thanks for giving me an option to change my Visual Studio start page to Delphi Prism. The SQL guys could learn a lot from you—they just set it to Microsoft.com/sql regardless of whether you want that or not.

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Mono installs first, then

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Prism actually installing.

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And done! From start to finish in under 10 minutes!

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Icons in the program list.