Sunday, October 4

SQL Server 2008 Setup requires Microsoft .Net framework 3.5 to be installed

I was installing SQL 2008 the other day and kept getting the following error:

"SQL Server 2008 Setup requires Microsoft .Net framework 3.5 to be installed"

I tried running the .NET Cleanup and reinstalling with no luck. It turns out that this error was being cause by a bad download of the SQL 2008 Standard Media from the MS Site. I downloaded the product again without issue.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here is the solution :
go to the path you are installing from eg
E:\x86\redist\DotNetFrameworks
and under "DotNetFrameworks"folder you'll find a file dotnetfx35setup.exe ,delete it and download a new one from the web and replace it with the one you deleted there..

Thats how i got mine working

Anonymous said...

Thanks.. this worked for me too..!!