Installing .NET Framework 3.5 in Windows 8 Consumer Preview

[I am traveling today, so it might be a one-off due to low band-width at the hotel, but in case it helps others]

I was installing Live writer and got a prompt to install the .NET Framework 3.5, I agreed to do that and got a “following feature could not be installed. Error: 0x800F0906.

Fortunately, I still had the ISO from when I installed consumer preview , so I used the local sources.
If you see the error above, try this from an elevated command prompt.

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /Source:h:\sources\sxs
where “h” is the drive where you have your win8 installation files (or where the iso is mounted, replace the path appropriately ).

Happy Windows 8 coding!

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 12, 2012
  Oh those magic command lines! :) Saved my day!

• Anonymous
  March 13, 2012
  GREAT!! been dealing with this issue for a couple of days now. Problem solved

• Anonymous
  March 21, 2012
  perfect - problem solved. thanks. had a "windows couldn't connect to the internet to download necessary files."

• Anonymous
  March 31, 2012
  Good method! Installation of many programs like games and Autocad 2012 need support of this feature.