I downloaded from http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/8/E/E8EEB394-7F42-4963-A2D8-29559B738298/VS2008ExpressWithSP1ENUX1504728.iso ( according to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15318560/visual-c-2008-express-download-link-dead )
· Only the "... with SP1" is needed.
· I used hidownload (nice downloader to keep) to download the 700M file.
· I used 7zip to open the *.iso
· I ran the seup.hta
· I didn't install the bundled SQL server express
