Visual Studio 2008 Released!

Published 19 November 07 09:37 AM

Early holiday gifts from Microsoft! Today we announced the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5! Come and get it:

 Also check out the new redesigned Visual Basic Developer Center with more updated and dynamic content.

Also, we'll be updating the Dev Center with more videos this week so stay tuned!

Happy Holidays!

by Beth Massi
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# Lookman said on November 19, 2007 2:30 PM:

Hooray

# Thierry said on November 20, 2007 4:54 AM:

Hi Beth,

Do you know when the products will be available in other language?

Cheers,

-TT

# Beth Massi said on November 20, 2007 2:03 PM:

Hi Thierry,

Visual Basic, C# and C++ languages are all included in the release of Visual Studio 2008.

Cheers,

-B

# John Bailey said on November 20, 2007 3:47 PM:

I just downloaded the the RTM, but the installation still says Beta 2.  Shoudl I be worried?

# Beth Massi said on November 20, 2007 3:54 PM:

Hi John,

Did you download it from here? This is the 2008 version: http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/

If you want to install the trials then they are here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx

Otherwise if you are an MSDN subscriber you can download VS 2008 from your subscriber downloads page.

HTH,

-B

# Thierry said on November 20, 2007 3:57 PM:

Hi Beth,

About the language, I wanted to mean the country (French, German,etc).

Cheers,

-TT

# John Bailey said on November 20, 2007 4:05 PM:

Never mind, I thought I had already gotten rid of the beta 2 image.

# Fred said on November 20, 2007 4:10 PM:

I still can't get the SQL Express to install.  It stops and says to look at the summary.txt, but that file is empty.  I had the same problem with the VB Express 2005, but I was able to install the Beta of 2008 and this release also installed fine.  Is there any chance of a SQL Expresss 08?

Also, how do you use the SQL Compact?

Thanks, Fred

# Beth Massi said on November 20, 2007 9:10 PM:

LOL @Thierry. Sorry I misunderstood. I'm not exactly sure when the localized versions of VS will be released. I'll ask around. :-)

# Beth Massi said on November 20, 2007 9:17 PM:

Hi Fred,

SQL 2008 hasn't been released yet. The launch event is scheduled for end of February. I'm not sure what is wrong with your install, you may want to ask on the forums.

SQL Compact Edition is a local database you can use for single-user apps. Just right-click on your 2008 project, select Add New Item and select the "local database" template. You can then design the database in VS with the Server/Database Explorer and create datasets like normal. I have an article that uses it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/archive/2007/10/30/quickly-import-and-export-excel-data-with-linq-to-xml.aspx

HTH,

-B

# Fred said on November 20, 2007 10:58 PM:

That's all I am going to do anyway, just one PC with a program running on it.

I will try the Compact Edition.

Thanks,

Fred

# dan bergen said on November 21, 2007 3:43 PM:

I am having problems with the install logs telling me I need the net framework 2.0a.  

It may be nice to add a link to this article telling people about this and providing a link to the download for it and 3.0a.  

The only reason I bring this up is that I could not find the download on the msdn downloads untill I found another blog with a link.

# Curtis V. Schleich said on November 21, 2007 6:33 PM:

I recently purchased VS2005 Pro.  Is there a free upgrade window for recent purchases?

# Hal said on November 25, 2007 3:11 AM:

Must I uninstall Beta 2 before installing 2008?

# Beth Massi said on November 29, 2007 2:06 PM:

Hi Hal,

Yes, you'll need to uninstall the Beta before installing RTM. Check out the download page for more info.

-B

# Logan said on September 17, 2008 5:33 AM:

I'm looking at getting my hands on VS 2008, but for now I'm using 2005 still... who's the guy who decided that shipping SQL Server Express withOUT a GUI was a good idea?

# Beth Massi said on September 17, 2008 12:52 PM:

Hi Logan,

You can use Visual Studio to create databases, define tables, stroed procs, etc. However you can download the "SQL Express with Tools" package that includes the GUI.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7522A683-4CB2-454E-B908-E805E9BD4E28&displaylang=en

HTH,

-B

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About Beth Massi

Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.

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