title: Installing the .NET reference source code (RSCC)
body: <p>I've been trying for the last hour or so to get the downloadable .NET source code installed to my local machine and it appears to be broken.</p>
  
  <p>I'm installing the .NET v8.0 file from <a href="http://referencesource.microsoft.com/netframework.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> and after the install the following files are created:</p>
  
  <pre>
  -Readme.txt
  -(Source)
  --(DotNET)
  ---(8.0)
  ----source.zip.tmp
  -(Symbols)
  --pingme.txt
  --(000Admin)
  ---0000000001
  ---history.txt
  ---lastid.txt
  ---server.txt
  </pre>
  
  <p>I can't imagine that this is right - is it? I would have thought there would be some pdb files at least... It certainly doesn't seem to work.</p>
  
  <p>A little research pulled up <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/da81d205-4939-4172-91fd-d2369c6460d6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this link</a> where the guy says that it is something to do with the date formatting. I don't really want to rewrite the installer like he did, but I have tried setting my region to English-US (from UK) and customising the date format all with no success. If this was the issue I would have expected to find more references to it.</p>
  
  <p>So, my questions are:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Is the file structure above correct?</li>
  <li>If not, and you've successfully
  installed the file what are your
  system's culture settings?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Bonus question:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Any idea specifically what the differences are between the files available from the RSCC? I can't find any documentation to tell me which are worth installing.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>For reference I'm running Visual Studio 2008 on XP with all service packs and patches applied.</p>