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One of somewhat frequent questions in Google is where one can find installer for Microsoft Documents Explorer 2005 or 2008.
A popular answer is http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/06/install-microsoft-document-explorer
But it only provides small download for DE 2005. For DE 2008 it suggests to download 2 GB ISO of MSDN for VS2008. This library might be a value per se for developing native applications, yet it is a very huge slab if you only need DE itself.
Well, there is one more way of questionable legality and safety to get installers for DE 2005 and 2008.
MS DocExp system is used by Borland/Inprise/CodeRage/Embarcadero Delphi since version 2005.
Version XE2 is shipped with some pre-release version of DocExp 2008
The question is if one can get a SMALL subset of full Delphi download.
Until 2012 it was possible. One could register for trial Delphi and only download help packages.
But then FinalAware - the installer used by Delphi - found Embarcadero breaching the contract and revoked on-demand download service from them.
So Embarcadero now only ships full ISOs for official download.
Still files from those downloads are easily found in torrents and all more or less torrent clients support partial downloads. For example Delphi XE6 torrent contains those files:
Install/microsoft dexplorer 2008.7zip 9.85 MB
Install/microsoft dexplorer 2005.7zip 9.75 MB
After you rename them to .7z extension from .7zip you can unpack them using www.7-zip.org archiver. They are not password-protected in XE6 release. After you unpack them - they have installers inside, versions 9.0.21022.8 and 8.0.50727.42 respectively.
Same Document Explorer installer archives come with Delphi Help Update packages - but those updates are also huge (about 1GB in size for unpacked XE2 Help Update 6) and only are provided for legal Delphi owners.
So back to the "questionable legality and safety".
Safety: Delphi is dying platform thus it is not popular among internet surfers thus it is not yet frequently targeted by virus-uploaders. So torrents with it are more or less probably vanilla DVD dumps. However if this method of getting DocExp would get popular virus-uploaders would surely install honey traps there, advertising fake Delphi torrents especially for providing infected DocExp installers.
Legality: pirated torrents with Delphi are obviously illegal per se. However DocExp there are clearly merely repacked Microsoft Redistributable Packages, thus intended for widespread and free use.
A popular answer is http://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2011/06/install-microsoft-document-explorer
But it only provides small download for DE 2005. For DE 2008 it suggests to download 2 GB ISO of MSDN for VS2008. This library might be a value per se for developing native applications, yet it is a very huge slab if you only need DE itself.
Well, there is one more way of questionable legality and safety to get installers for DE 2005 and 2008.
MS DocExp system is used by Borland/Inprise/CodeRage/Embarcadero Delphi since version 2005.
Version XE2 is shipped with some pre-release version of DocExp 2008
The question is if one can get a SMALL subset of full Delphi download.
Until 2012 it was possible. One could register for trial Delphi and only download help packages.
But then FinalAware - the installer used by Delphi - found Embarcadero breaching the contract and revoked on-demand download service from them.
So Embarcadero now only ships full ISOs for official download.
Still files from those downloads are easily found in torrents and all more or less torrent clients support partial downloads. For example Delphi XE6 torrent contains those files:
Install/microsoft dexplorer 2008.7zip 9.85 MB
Install/microsoft dexplorer 2005.7zip 9.75 MB
After you rename them to .7z extension from .7zip you can unpack them using www.7-zip.org archiver. They are not password-protected in XE6 release. After you unpack them - they have installers inside, versions 9.0.21022.8 and 8.0.50727.42 respectively.
Same Document Explorer installer archives come with Delphi Help Update packages - but those updates are also huge (about 1GB in size for unpacked XE2 Help Update 6) and only are provided for legal Delphi owners.
So back to the "questionable legality and safety".
Safety: Delphi is dying platform thus it is not popular among internet surfers thus it is not yet frequently targeted by virus-uploaders. So torrents with it are more or less probably vanilla DVD dumps. However if this method of getting DocExp would get popular virus-uploaders would surely install honey traps there, advertising fake Delphi torrents especially for providing infected DocExp installers.
Legality: pirated torrents with Delphi are obviously illegal per se. However DocExp there are clearly merely repacked Microsoft Redistributable Packages, thus intended for widespread and free use.