The release formerly known as Orcas has shipped. This is a great release and builds on the foundation of the .NET Framework 2.0. This release also includes the .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 SP1 bits. Aaron Stebner has a great post with the download links
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My team owns the installation experience for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. One difficulty in the setup and deployment space is that the real world is a lot more complicated and messy than we can re-create in the test lab. That is where
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I have seen quite a few reports of the VS 2008 installation not being able to copy a specific file. This almost always means that there is a corruption on the media or in the ISO. The first trouble shooting step I take is to XCOPY the contents of the
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Most developers have heard that Visual Studio and the .NET Framework released Beta2 of Orcas at the end of July. However, I have seen a few questions on how to get help or report issues. "Help! I can't figure out this bug or VS won't install!" First,
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