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Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET FX 3.5 Beta 2, and Silverlight 1.0 RC

I am pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2, and Silverlight 1.0 RC. 

 

You can download Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 from here.  Over the next couple of days, we will make Silverlight 1.0 RC available for download as well.

 

The road to Beta 2 has been an exciting one for me and my team.  With our focus on delivering frequent CTP’s, we really opened the door for real time feedback from the developer community, and drove the development of this product based on that feedback.  With Beta 2 we are feature complete, so now is the time to have your first look if you haven’t seen Visual Studio 2008 yet, or evolve your experience if you have been using our Beta 1 or previous CTP’s.  To add to this, we are also releasing a Go Live license for Visual Studio 2008, the .NET Framework 3.5, and Silverlight 1.0 to make it easier for you to start developing in our next generation of tools.

 

Developers can now use VS2008 and Silverlight 1.0 to build rich interactive applications for the web.  With Silverlight 1.0 RC we will also be releasing a CTP for the Silverlight Add-In for Visual Studio 2008.  With this add-in, developers can start building Silverlight 1.0 applications from within the Visual Studio 2008 environment and work with their designer counterparts using Expression Blend v2 preview.  We expect to deliver the final version of this add-in soon after the final version of Visual Studio 2008.

 

Early this week Scott Guthrie and I recorded a Channel 9 video, which overviews these releases, and some of the new scenarios which we are seeing customers and partners using today.  Make sure you check it out.

 

It has been a fun time building these great products and cool technologies and being able to bring those to you.  With Silverlight 1.0, Visual Studio 2008, and the .NET Framework 3.5 all scheduled to release to manufacturing (RTM) prior to the end of the year – we are set up to have the best era of developer releases we have seen so far.

 

Namaste!

 

 

Posted: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:59 PM by Somasegar

Comments

Rob Caron said:

See Soma's post for the details: Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET FX 3.5 Beta

# July 26, 2007 4:57 PM

Jeff Beehler's Blog said:

I'm sure there will be many more posts (from me and others) but I wanted to get the good word out quickly

# July 26, 2007 5:07 PM

Darryl Burling @ Work said:

Hot off the press. We just released Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008. Soma has all the details . This is

# July 26, 2007 5:14 PM

WynApse said:

Silverlight Cream for July 26, 2007

# July 26, 2007 5:15 PM

ナオキにASP.NET（仮） said:

Somasegar's WebLog からです。 Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET FX 3.5 Beta 2, and

# July 26, 2007 5:20 PM

jinishans said:

http://jinishans.blogspot.com/2007/07/somasegars-announcement-on-vs-2008-b2.html#links

# July 26, 2007 5:21 PM

jinishans said:

But, somehow i'm not convinced on the version #3.5, what's that x.5, i dont understand. When 3.1 came, when 3.2 came. If M$ felt they're giving silverlight, LINQ, etc. etc., they should club everything with .NET 3.0 and still .NET 2.0 is the runtime for 3.5 also, release it as .NET 4.0. Major version, minor version, build version & rev. version are all for us only, not for M$ i think.

sorry i missed to put the comment...

# July 26, 2007 5:23 PM

Clint Gallon said:

is this the followup to silverlight 1.1 alpha? Or do we have to wait longer?

# July 26, 2007 5:24 PM

Noticias externas said:

Hot off the press. We just released Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008. Soma has all the details . Check the

# July 26, 2007 5:29 PM

Public Sector Developer Weblog said:

Silverlight 1.0 RC will be soon! More details here . - Marc

# July 26, 2007 5:50 PM

Gill Cleeren said:

Congrats on the release!

Downloading and can't wait to get started with it!

# July 26, 2007 6:10 PM

B# .NET Blog said:

No further comments needed - Soma has all of the information on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar

# July 26, 2007 6:16 PM

Buck Hodges said:

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, including Team Foundation Server 2008, is now available for download . As

# July 26, 2007 6:19 PM

Windows Presentation Foundation SDK said:

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 are now available! You can download them

# July 26, 2007 6:21 PM

Aaron Marten's WebLog said:

Soma has just announced that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has been shipped ! You can download Visual Studio

# July 26, 2007 6:22 PM

Michell Cronberg said:

# July 26, 2007 6:24 PM

Doug Seven said:

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is now available for download, along with NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2. The Silverlight

# July 26, 2007 6:32 PM

Noticias externas said:

Soma has just announced that Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 has been shipped ! You can download Visual Studio

# July 26, 2007 6:33 PM

Noticias externas said:

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, including Team Foundation Server 2008, is now available for download . As

# July 26, 2007 6:33 PM

Noticias externas said:

Silverlight 1.0 RC will be soon! More details here . - Marc

# July 26, 2007 6:33 PM

Windows Presentation Foundation SDK said:

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 are now available! You can download them

# July 26, 2007 6:34 PM

bharry's WebLog said:

Unfortunately, I don't have much time to write something up right now, but I wanted to let you know that

# July 26, 2007 6:40 PM

Harold van de Kamp .NET Blog said:

Today Scott Guthrie and Somasegar anounced the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and .NET Framework

# July 26, 2007 6:58 PM

My VSTS Blog said:

Well the blogosphere's already running hot ( Soma , Rob , Scott to name a few) with the news that Visual

# July 26, 2007 7:15 PM

G. T. said:

Nice :-)

Thank you a lot

# July 26, 2007 7:20 PM

Ronald Ramirez (aka DlanorOk) said:

Se acaba de anunciar la disponibilidad oficial de Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5

# July 26, 2007 7:29 PM

Thomas Lebrun said:

Soma Somasegar a annoncé, via son blog , la disponibilité de Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 et du Framework

# July 26, 2007 7:36 PM

Noticias externas said:

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is now available for download, along with NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2. The Silverlight

# July 26, 2007 7:41 PM

Noticias externas said:

Unfortunately, I don't have much time to write something up right now, but I wanted to let you know

# July 26, 2007 7:41 PM

Visual Studio Team System said:

Comme vient de l'annoncer S. Somasegar, notre VP responsable de la division 'Outils de développement"

# July 26, 2007 7:51 PM

Jaswant Singh Rana said:

Nice to see it out. Can someone tell me if I need to download base01.vhd again, or the one release with Beta1  still work?

Thanks in advance

# July 26, 2007 8:41 PM

Noticias externas said:

Comme vient de l'annoncer S. Somasegar, notre VP responsable de la division 'Outils de développement"

# July 26, 2007 8:45 PM

Allan's Best Week Ever said:

You knew them when :) Here they are in all there Beta 2 (.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008) and RC (Silverlight

# July 26, 2007 8:48 PM

Noticias externas said:

You knew them when :) Here they are in all their Beta 2 (.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008) and RC (Silverlight

# July 26, 2007 9:48 PM

Ponder .NET said:

VS 2008 here I come!!!!! First the Database Professionals team gets SR1 out the door. Now DevDiv at Microsoft

# July 26, 2007 9:51 PM

Somasegar said:

Hi Clint,

This RC release for Silverlight is a follow-on to the 1.0 Beta that we delivered earlier this year at MIX.  Once we get done with 1.0, we will focus more on the update for 1.1.

-somasegar

# July 26, 2007 10:03 PM

Microsoft News Tracker said:

S. “Soma” Somasegar, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Developer Division unveiled some eagerly anticipated developer tool betas today via his blog: I am pleased to announce the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET Framework 3.5 Bet...

# July 26, 2007 10:17 PM

Carol said:

Hi Jaswant Singh Rana -

You do not need to download the base image (for the VPC) if you already have it on your machine. You only need the differencing disk.  If you have problems please email me cscott@microsoft.com

# July 26, 2007 11:20 PM

Fuziness and Cognizance... said:

I am travelling, but I just wanted to share this news with all those who might be following my blog and

# July 26, 2007 11:56 PM

Aaron Stebner's WebLog said:

As announced earlier today in this post on Soma's blog, beta 2 of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio

# July 27, 2007 12:56 AM

vikasgoyal77 said:

Hi Soma,

The VS 2008 beta2 download pages does't seem to be working currently. Also is it possible to provide .NET 3.5 beta 2 in iso format so that it can be archived.

# July 27, 2007 1:51 AM

This Old Code said:

# July 27, 2007 1:52 AM

Noticias externas said:

As announced earlier today in this post on Soma's blog, beta 2 of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual

# July 27, 2007 2:04 AM

Righthand blogs said:

As Somasegar and other softies announced , Orcas beta 2 (and .net 3.5 beta 2 with go-live license) is

# July 27, 2007 2:50 AM

Khurram Aziz said:

Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 is available to download . You will downloads of find Silverlight 1.0 RC,

# July 27, 2007 3:38 AM

Christophe Lauer, Blog Edition said:

Vous l'attendiez : la version Bêta 2 de Visual Studio 2008 "Orcas" est disponible depuis ce matin en

# July 27, 2007 5:17 AM

Microsoft News and Technology said:

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, including Team Foundation Server 2008, is now available for download . As

# July 27, 2007 5:25 AM

Rocky Moore said:

While I am happy to hear about the VS update, I was hoping we would see a Silverlight beta 1.1 in the mix.  For me, Silverlight does not exist prior to 1.1a so anything 1.0 related has no value.  Will be glad when 1.0 is finally over so we can get some serious betas of 1.1.

Rocky

http://www.SilverlightCity.com

http://www.TheSilverlightDirectory.com

# July 27, 2007 5:51 AM

Wooley's Wonderings said:

Yesterday, Microsoft released Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008. You can read more about it at Soma's blog post....

# July 27, 2007 8:59 AM

JrzyShr Dev Guy said:

First, the IronRuby bits hit on Monday. Now, the beta 2 bits are out for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET

# July 27, 2007 9:01 AM

brian said:

Thanks for all your hard work!  But please get the Silverlight 1.1 beta out.  Need .net framework on client...sick an tired of javascript debugging!!!

# July 27, 2007 9:17 AM

Noticias externas said:

First, the IronRuby bits hit on Monday. Now, the beta 2 bits are out for Visual Studio 2008 and the

# July 27, 2007 9:29 AM

Walter Stiers - Academic Relations Team (BeLux) said:

Somasegar's WebLog is Announcing the release of Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET FX 3.5 Beta 2, and Silverlight

# July 27, 2007 9:45 AM

Ned Hamilton said:

Does Beta 1 have to be uninstalled first?

# July 27, 2007 11:07 AM

Visual Studio Team Editon for DB Pro - Mairead's version said:

Folks Just wanted to give you a heads up that, the Beta2 of Visual Studio 2008 is available for you to

# July 27, 2007 12:38 PM

Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog said:

I just counted 68 blog entries on http://blogs.msdn.com posted within the last 24 hours with a title

# July 27, 2007 2:53 PM

Bret Grinslade said:

You do have to uninstall all previous beta or CTP releases of Orcas / Visual Studio 2008 before installing Beta 2.

-Bret

# July 27, 2007 5:19 PM

VS Team Architect Blog said:

I know, I am a little late on this one, but if for some strange reason you did not hear the news, we

# July 27, 2007 7:49 PM

B# .NET Blog said:

As you've heard by now, Orcas beta 2 (or should I start to talk about VS2008 and .NET Framework 3

# July 28, 2007 8:46 AM

Adrian Roman said:

Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) Beta 2 este disponibil pentru download

# July 30, 2007 3:05 AM

msdn Austria said:

Die Beta 2 von Visual Studio 2008 wurde offiziell am Freitag zum Download freigegeben! Hier sind die

# July 30, 2007 4:58 AM

Noticias externas said:

Die Beta 2 von Visual Studio 2008 wurde offiziell am Freitag zum Download freigegeben! Hier sind die

# July 30, 2007 5:15 AM

Matt W's Windows Workflow Place said:

So, per Soma's blog , this great Channel9 video , and a bunch of other places, VS 2008 Beta 2 is available

# July 30, 2007 4:03 PM

Noticias externas said:

So, per Soma's blog , this great Channel9 video , and a bunch of other places, VS 2008 Beta 2 is

# July 30, 2007 4:57 PM

omg said:

c quoi ces commentaires qui servent à rien ??????????????????????????????????????????????

why there is so many unusefull commentaries ???

# July 31, 2007 8:23 AM

.: Stefan Gabriel Georgescu's blog :. said:

Vreau să vă anunț, totusi, că Silverlight a ajuns la stadiul de RC1 . Au fost anunțate versiunile Visual

# July 31, 2007 4:24 PM

Sandcastle said:

Microsoft officially released Orcas Beta 2, .NET FX 3.5 Beta 2 as well as Silverlight 1.0 RC and a CTP

# August 1, 2007 1:49 AM

Muhammad Suhada - a Tiny Contribution said:

Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2008 (codenamed Orcas) Beta 2, .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 and the

# August 1, 2007 2:52 AM

dskcheck said:

Soma,

Where can we report the bugs from the Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008?

I've an issue with Orcas, guess that you need to know that. Please provide the information as how i can bring to your attention.

Thanks,

Chakravarthy

# August 9, 2007 9:17 AM

Swiss DPE Team Blog said:

Gestern haben wir vormittags und nachmittags den MSDN TechTalk Office Business Applications (OBA) in

# October 11, 2007 10:31 AM

Wooley's LINQ Wonderings said:

Yesterday, Microsoft released Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008. You can read more about it at Soma's blog

# October 22, 2007 3:34 PM

Blocks4.NET Team Blog said:

Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) is available for download

# January 8, 2008 4:30 AM

All Your Base Are Belong To Us said:

In a previous post , I've outlined my subjective opinion regarding the differentiating features of

# July 1, 2008 4:25 PM

rg said:

If you're going to work on classic asp projects and depend on the colouring and intellisense better use vs 2005.. Our friends at ms thought it would be cool to drop the support for that in classic asp

# August 16, 2008 12:39 PM
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