Downloading and installing Sitefinity

1. Login with your account on http://www.sitefinity.com/.
   If you do not have an account, you must create one.
2. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Your Account.
3. Click Download and Manage your products link.
4. Depending on whether you have purchased a license or not, you can download Sitefinity under one of the following sections:
   • Your Purchased Products
   • Your Free Products
     You can download a free trial.
5. Click the download button of Sitefinity 5.0.
   A list of Sitefinity resources that can be downloaded appears.
6. Click Sitefinity 5.0 Installation Package.
7. Click Run.
   If you are using Windows 2008, Windows Vista, or Windows 7, User Account Control dialog box may appear. There you must explicitly authorize the installation of Sitefinity. Depending on your settings, User Account Control may be disabled.
8. On the installation Welcome screen that appears, click Read License Agreement.
   The License Agreement screen appears displaying Telerik End User License Agreement for Sitefinity.
9. Read the license agreement and click OK to close it.
10. To accept the license agreement and continue with the installation, click I Agree – Continue.
    The summary of the installation appears. There you can see the features that will be installed and the folder where Sitefinity and the documentation will be installed.
11. To change the installation folder or to disable the installation of documentation, click Customize button.
    1. If you do not want to install documentation, click and selecting Entire feature will be unavailable.
       If you do not install Documentation component, the offline versions of the guides are not installed and you can only use the online version of the documentation on http://www.sitefinity.com/documentation/documentationarticles. You can later download the PDF files of all guides and the CHM of the Developer’s Guide.
    2. If you want to install Sitefinity in a different than the default folder, select it in Install path input field.
    3. Click OK.
12. Click Install.
    An information dialog box appears informing you that you must have installed Silverlight 4.0 Tools, if you want to do development in Sitefinity.
    Click one of the following:
    • Download Silverlight 4 Tools
      Microsoft Silverlight page appears where you can download Silverlight 4 Tools. When finished return to Sitefinity installation.
    • Continue with setup
      The system returns you to Sitefinity installation.
    • Click Install button again.
      

      A Status progress bar appears.

13. Select if you want to launch Sitefinity Project Manager and click Finish.
    Installation is completed.
    The Sitefinity Project Manager shortcut is added to your Windows Start Menu.

NOTE: If you need only the Sitefinity Project Manager, you can skip the installation procedure and download only the project manager, which does not require installation. To do this, in Step 6, click Sitefinity Project Manager and save it on your computer.

IMPORTANT: If you download only the Project Manager, you must manually add Microsoft.IdentityModel.dll to one of the following folders in your Windows directory:

• %windir%\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_64
• %windir%\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_32

Then, you must manually register the .dll by opening Visual Studio Command Prompt and executing the following command: 
gacutil /I [path to one of the above folders]