Michiko's Blog : MSDN VS2008 SP1 Library Express

Released German, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese version of MSDN VS2008 SP1 Library

Michiko — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:38:00 GMT

I am very pleased to announce that 6 more localized MSDN Offline Libraries are available at Microsoft Download Center!
Also we posted the updated Visual Studio 2008 SP1 content on the MSDN Online Library.

MSDN Library Download Page URL:

Also new MSDN Express Library is available for the avobe 6 languages. Please visit www.microsoft.com/express/ or click the image below!!

Japanese MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available!!

Michiko — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:47:00 GMT

Last month we released English MSDN Full Library and MSDN Express Library and now Japanese version is available at Microsoft Download Center!

You can download Japanese MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7BBE5EDA-5062-4EBB-83C7-D3C5FF92A373&displaylang=ja

MSDN Express Library is also available at Express Product download site: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/
In this release we added drop-down list to download localized MSDN Express Library as well as other Express Products!!
The rest of 8 language versions will be added in the near future (so stay tuned!)

Tips for the DVD burn software:
- When you download the ISO image for MSDN (Full) Library and burn a DVD (DVD-5) please check the options before you actually burn a DVD.
- Look for an option something like "Burn DVD from an ISO image". (The menu is different depends on the DVD burner software you have.)
- If you see just one big ISO file in your DVD instead of many .cab files and folders (including "setup.exe") you created a DVD with wrong way.

MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available!!

Michiko — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:03:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has been released and it's available on the Microsoft Download Center.
English version of MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 is also available as a separate download. This library contains updated Visual Studio documentation, updated SQL Server documentation, updated Windows Server documentation, updated Knowledge Base and Service Pack 1 documentation.
Addition to the updated documentation we improved setup performance in this release. So the setup is faster than previous release.

MSDN VS2008 SP1 Library (Download Center):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7bbe5eda-5062-4ebb-83c7-d3c5ff92a373&displaylang=en

Note: Please DO NOT install old MSDN VS2008 (November 2007 RTM version) on top of the latest MSDN VS2008 SP1 (August 2008) Library.

Visual Studio Express Editions user:
MSDN Express Library for Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions SP1 is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/msdn/Default.aspx
You need to install at least one or more SP1 version of Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions first to install this new MSDN Express Library.

Note: In this release MSDN Express Library setup is separated from Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions SP1 setup.

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