Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped!

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I am thrilled to announce that earlier today we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.

 

Over the past few months, I have blogged about some incredible features that the team working on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 have built. I wanted to share these with you so that you can get a flavor of a few of the several hundred features that are a part of this release. The entire family of Visual Studio products (from the Express Editions to the Professional version to Visual Studio Team Suite) and .NET Framework 3.5 are available for immediate download here.

 

I am incredibly proud to be a part of the team that is truly advancing the state of developer tools. We know we could not have done this alone and I wish to thank you all (the community, customers and early adopters) who have provided incredibly valuable feedback to make these products the right ones.

 

When I look back over the last few years at how we were able to ship these two products, I truly believe that both our customer input and our renewed focus on intentional engineering allowed us to release a great product in the timeline that we originally set out to hit. We adopted Team Foundation Server to manage this release and to collect data and enable reporting on our progress. It was incredibly helpful to me personally to be able to view our progress in real time. Just adopting TFS, however, was not the silver bullet – it was just a vehicle to enable the behaviors we desired. TFS enables process enactment, collects a lot of data, and enables reporting on it. It provides visibility to everyone and it enables enforcement of certain things. I had a chance to film a Channel9 video talking about this that you can check out.

 

We hope that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 enables you as an individual or as a team to build great applications. Whether you are a professional developer or a software enthusiast, are building applications for the client, server, web, or devices we hope you have fun with these products as your software is our passion.

 

Namaste!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Congratulations - this is FANTASTIC!!!!

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    It's official!  The product we've all be waiting for is released!  It's been a fun ride. 

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Fantastic news! Soma has all the details . Additional and up to date information is available on the

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 & .NET 3.5 We've just announced the RTM (release to manufacturing) of Visual Studio

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    YEAAAAHHH! Check out the details on Soma's and Brian Harry's blog :-) For those who simply can't wait

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    YEAAAAHHH! Check out the details on Soma's and Brian Harry's blog :-) For those who simply can't wait

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    YEAAAAHHH! Check out the details on Soma's and Brian Harry's blog :-) For those who simply can't wait

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Soma announced that VS2008 and .NET 3.5 shipped today . Reading Don's post on the VS2008 ship date is

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Looks like we may all be needing that training kit I blogged about earlier . Soma has just announced

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Momentul mult așteptat este aici: Visual Studio 2008 împreună cu .NET Fx 3.5 s-au lansat. Edițiile Express

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    It's my pleasure to tell you we shipped VS2008 and .NET FX 3.5 today. Soma has all the details on

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Very nice, but how long do we have to wait for the Team Developer edition? Only the Team Suite is available for download from MSDN subscriptions.

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    What else can I say? The big day has arrived (read the official word here on Soma's blog ) and we're

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    It's my pleasure to tell you we shipped VS2008 and .NET FX 3.5 today. Soma has all the details on

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    It's offical, Soma annouced on his blog that the 3.5 .Net Framework along with Visual Studio 2008 have...

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Microsoft officially released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5! Soma in his blog announced the above

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Hooray! Today we’ve finally shipped Visual Studio 2008, previously known as “Orcas”, previously known

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Congratulations DevDiv! This is tremendous!

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions are also available for immediate download at http://www.microsoft.com/express

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Como bien ya lo anunció Misa, y lo confirman algunos posts en Channel 9 ya está disponible a partir del

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Hey Dev's... Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net 3.5 framework have shipped and are now on MSDN downloads

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Start pointing your browsers at MSDN and grab the RTM bits of VS 2008 & .NET 3.5, they've shipped

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Wow! Great news! Thank you dev div guys! you rock!

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Ok, non molti commenti a questa notizia, giusto i link a chi di voi vuole scaricarla subito. Post ufficale

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Here is the official word from Jeff Beehler, the Team System Chief of Staff, and the really official

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 (and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5) has shipped - more

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    As noted this morning in this post on Soma's blog , the final release of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Early holiday gifts from Microsoft! Today we announced the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    I would like to inform you that VS 2008 is now available for MSDN Subscribers!! Go it now :)   Lots

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    S. “Soma” Somasegar anuncia en la entrada de su blog que ¡Visual Studio 2008 y...

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    As noted this morning in this post on Soma's blog , the final release of Visual Studio 2008 and the

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 (and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5) has shipped - more

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Congrats and good job! :-)

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Early holiday gifts from Microsoft! Today we announced the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Here is the official word from Jeff Beehler, the Team System Chief of Staff, and the really official

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Greates news, I was now downloading Visual Studio 2008 with much excitement!!!!

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! This morning Microsoft shipped Visual Studio...

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Thank you and Congratulations to the team.

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Yup.  This morning (PST time) Visual Studio 2008 RTM'd.  Its already on MSDN, so go get it..

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    As widely reported on blogs far and wide , Visual Studio 2008 has been released to manufacturing (or

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    These all look like fake comments!  Excellent, great, fantastic, yah right...

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    so is this version the best ever and last to be made because there's no way microsoft could make this better?  or is there something always in the works for microsoft to continously make some $$$ every few years claiming every version is better than the previous?  spend spend spend... build, rebuild, build again...

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    As widely reported on blogs far and wide , Visual Studio 2008 has been released to manufacturing (or

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Yup.  This morning (PST time) Visual Studio 2008 RTM'd.  Its already on MSDN, so go get

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Today we released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5!  I want to congratulate

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Amazing, this IDE just keeps getting more powerful. Congrats to your team.

  1.  Will 2005 Express editions remain available for download and for how long?
  2.  Is pricing the same? Can I upgrade from 2005 Standard to 2008 Pro for the upgrade price?
  3.  Will retail purchase be only available after the February launch?
  4.  Any other minor features dropped in 2008 apart from J#?
  5.  All websites will be updated soon or after the launch? I would like a detailed comparison table for editions, more detailed than the one for VS 2005. Is developing a Windows service for example not available yet in Standard edition?
  6.  Are there ANY plans for servicing .NET 1.1 SP1?

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Outstanding! This is fantastic news Soma. We plan on rolling over to 2008 in our office as soon as we can get our hands on it.

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Congratulations!

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Soma announced that VS2008 and .NET 3.5 shipped today . It is available via MSDN Downloads for subscribers

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    All you need to work with LINQ (Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5) is now finalized! The final release

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    The net has been a flurry of activity over the past few hours as word gets out that MSDN Subscribers

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Maybe my definition of "shipped" is different from everyone else's, but nothing has "shipped."  You guys released a product to manufacturing.  Sure it is available through MSDN, but this is not the same as shipping.  

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    We've officially released ASP.NET 3.5 today, you can get it as part of .NET Framework 3.5 from here

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Soma announced that VS2008 and .NET 3.5 shipped today . It is available via MSDN Downloads for subscribers

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    This is a pretty exciting day as Visual Studio 2008 has shipped. This is the first product I've shipped

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 are just really great. Today we launched http://blogs.dotnetgerman.com/ running on .NET 3.5. It was great fun developing this using VS 2008.

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Today the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 have been released. Both will be officially launched

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    It's official

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    You've probably all seen Soma's announcement that the 2008 suite of products officially shipped this

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    The downloads are not available in MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Only the readme is available. There are links on the main subscription page, but they just post back to the same page.

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    from Somasegar's WebLog - Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! Even Better News Visual

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Официально: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! Комментарии, как говорится, излишни Уточню

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    It's offical, Soma annouced on his blog that the 3.5 .Net Framework along with Visual Studio 2008 have

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Great news! Congrats on the RTM!

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    You've probably all seen Soma's announcement that the 2008 suite of products officially shipped

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Ting går unna her og produktteamet er godt i rute. Den store dagen har kommet og VSTS 2008 Team Suite

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Gary - All skus should be available for download.  If you are having trouble with the download page, you should be able to get support via one of these two options: Online Concierge: https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/subscriptions/manage/default.aspx?CA=Chat Or, Subscription Support: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/aa948875.aspx

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    I know that Visual Studio 2008 is getting most of the press today for releasing, but there was also a...

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Ting går unna her og produktteamet er godt i rute. Den store dagen har kommet og VSTS 2008 Team Suite

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    When will VS2008 Team Suite (FULL NOT TRIAL) be available for d/l to MSDN subscribers?

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Coming straight from Somasegar's blog - Visual Studio 2008 and .Net framework 3.5 have been shipped!

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Craig - The full VS2008 Team Suite is available for download for MSDN Subscribers here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx Enjoy!

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Meg, I'm not seeing this in the subscriber downloads. Perhaps because my subscriber downloads come via partner status? All I have is a VS2008 readme.

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 have officially shipped! Soma has the announcement on his blog

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 have officially shipped! Soma has the announcement on his blog

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Visual Studio (메인 페이지) Visual Studio Development System (VS2008 정보 페이지) Somasegar's WebLog : Visual Studio

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008英文正式版已经发布在MSDN

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Visual Studio (메인 페이지) Visual Studio Development System (VS2008 정보 페이지) Somasegar's WebLog : Visual

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Hi,  Congratulations....BTW just curious.....would like to know what is "Intentional Engineering"?

  • Sekhar

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    >>The downloads are not available in MSDN Subscriber >>Downloads. Only the readme is available. There are links >>on the main subscription page, but they just post back to >>the same page. The same thing was happening to me until I remembered to turn off my popup blocker.

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Soma, congratulations for new release! If I install trial version of VS2008, will it be possible to convert it to full version without uninstalling?

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    ÉN TE DOWNLOADEN VIA MSDN! Vandaag maandag 19 November gaan Visual Studio 2008 en het .NET Framework

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Well Visual Studio 2008 has been released either a few days early ( the money was on thursday ) , or

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    Congratulations and... <ignore netiquette> W00t!!! </ignore netiquette>

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Also, have a look @ ==    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx Have to wait for professional edition that we normally use. Have a good day. Ali Muslim

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    My company (in Russia) has MSDN subscription. We login on MSDN Subscriber zone. But there are not any releases of Visual Studio 2008 there! Only one file - "Visual Studio 2008 Readme.docx".

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Meg, Thanks for the reply.  Our experience is similar - we log in to our MSDN and only the VS 2008 Readme.docx document is available. Do we have the wrong version of MSDN? Thanks...Craig.

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Shrike / Craig The link is on the main page of MSDN Subcriptions Check out Top Subscriber downloads. Please make sure that popup blocker is turned off. Enjoy.

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Hi Soma,   Thanks for the pointer to the Channel9 video on "Intentional Engineering". Sounds very interesting. Regards Sekhar

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , now available for MSDN subscribers and Express editions freely available

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    2Amit Patankar : Popup blocker is turned off. We need Team Suite and TFS. But there are only their trials on the main page! Yes, I can see Std/Prof edition, but not Team Suite/TFS.

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Though I have an extremely fast connection, I can get the Akamai Download Manager to download the VS2008 without the message: “There’s a persistent network connectivity error preventing a problem with your connection to the Internet.” Have you heard of this from others?

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , now available for MSDN subscribers and Express editions freely available

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    “There’s a persistent network connectivity error preventing a problem with your connection to the Internet.” Twice already. Lama!

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Lama and Getting impatient, do you have more than one network card? Check if only your internet attached card has a default gateway for its TCP/IP settings Do you use a proxy to access the internet? Can you check to bypass the proxy?

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for releasing VSTS Team Explorer 2008 as a standalone download from TFS, and at the same time as the VS2008 release no less :).

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    What about localized versions availability ? It was horribly long for VS 2005, even for the .NET framework redistrbuable itself ! I hope the main versions (German, French, Japanese) will be released this week...

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    I just download Visual Studio 2008 Professional from the subscriber site (Top Downloads section) and installed it, but the installation still says Beta 2. Is this something I should be worried about?

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Kudos to the VS Team! LINQ and its supporting features are a great new paradigm for development. Shame on MSDN for using the Katamai Download Manager. After 5 times getting to 90+ percent mark it broke the connection. There is no resume capability. I'm not the only one. At work I can't even connect because it doesn't like Proxy servers. Their regular MSDN subscription download manager never gives a problem. Why go this route. It's also quite embarrassing for Microsoft. The program UI looks like it came out of the late 1980's.   Com'n guys, you have enough money and resources to do it right. I certainly paid enough for my Premium subscription, but apparently it doesn't do any good. Chris

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    I am not against MS using Akamai's services for contents distribution. But that is affecting the overall experience. I am still stuck on 31% and every time it just stay there and crashes. And there is no recovery Someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell AKAMAI to just give an option to use PLAIN HTTP / FTP downloads.

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 has finally shipped. MSDN subscribers can download the final

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Hi Vincent, Regarding the localization versions of VS2008 and .NET FX 3.5, here is the plan for when these versions will be done: Japanese - 12/07 French, German - 1/08 Other languages - 2/08 -somasegar

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    O Visual Studio 2008 e a .NET Framework 3.5 foram finalmente lançados. Os subscritores MSDN podem descarregar

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Soma, If I install trial version of VS2008, will it be possible to convert it to full version without uninstalling?

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Hi Dragan, You don't have to uninstall the trial version.  When you insert the new DVD and the PID key, setup will recognize the installed bits and you will have the full version running. -somasegar

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Thanks.. so simply by starting setup and entering new key my trial will be converted to full?! Excellent...

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Earlier Dragan asked "If I install trial version of VS2008, will it be possible to convert it to full version without uninstalling? And the answer is yes, you can do it one of two ways:

  1.  You can get to VS Setup from ARP (add/remove programs) table.  Enter full PID – upgrade complete.  No DVD required in this case. or
  2.  You can launch setup from your new Retail DVD – if it’s the same VS edition, last option is to enter the full PID for upgrade. Good luck, Carol

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Chris and others with Akamai download challenges - I apologize for problems you are having downloading from our facilitated download manager on MSDN (Akamai).  The traditional way should be online by tomorrow for you, if not already (depending on which SKU you are looking for).   As we try different options to try and improve your experience, we sometimes run in to challenges given the breadth and size of our product.  We appreciate your feedback and will work to continue to improve your download experience.   Thank you for your feedback and if you continue to have problems, please email me at cscott@microsoft.com. Carol

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Please post asap. I'm on my fifth download attempt. All other four faile, each time, same error, at 74%. These downloads are 6+ hours. There isn't anything special about our network. Never had problems downloading files of this size. I'm not actually upset that it's being killed, that sometimes happens. What irks me is that we ALL KNOW VERY WELL that this sometimes happens. There isn't a download manager in the world (with the exception of this new Akamai POS) that won't allow you to continue to use your partially downloaded file. Typically when people use new things, the new thing is better. The old way of downloading via msdn doesn't have problems.

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Is it correct that VS2008 RTM version includes the Final version of .net compact framewor 3.5 ?

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    If one compares it with Visual Studio 2005: great! But little comment: each simple computer software finds other required tools without intervention of user. But Visual Studio? If you not exactly fulfil all installation procedures you will find al lot of hints during compilation or linking. There is not found some kind of .lib or .h or so. Its boring and I think it would be no problem for programmers to change this and make life for us as users more delightful! In concrete: I had to work about 2 days till full working STUDIO!

  • Anonymous
    November 20, 2007
    Ok, regarding download issues. I tried downloading the team dev version twice, both failed (at 90% at 91% respectively). I then tried the pro version and that one succeeded. (I have no idea how Akamai actually deploys things. I'm guessing a set of geographically dispersed mirrors. Perhaps the team dev image is broken on the replica I get assigned to?)

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    Sigh, VS 2008 crashes when converting the Xerces solution file.

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    Doh! I meant ICU, sorry.

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    When I installed VS2008 Beta2 I was surprised that its quality is much better than quality of VS2005 Beta2 was. So I quickly extrapolated and decided that quality of VS2008 RTM is going to be very good. Ha! It crashes in Find dialog, problems editing vsprops files, Ctrl+F12 hangs sometimes. And cl.exe often complains about unmodifiable vc90.pdb if I compile after I pressed Ctrl-Break when compiling with /MP on Intel Q6600 4GB and XP x64 . Restart does not help, pdb is corrupted and needs to be deleted. Also Beta2 installation corrupted EVC 4.x PocketPC 2003 SDK and I am sure RTM does the same. I carefully removed all Beta2 items pointed by ScottGu before RTM instalation. But I really hope that all problems above are because of Beta2 interference. Being MS evangelist at my work I am quite disappointed - I don't feel I can sell this c... to my colleagues.

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    今天登陆MSDN发现Visual Studio 2008英文正式版已经发布,MSDN订阅者已经可以下载.这次公布的Visual Studio 2008包括所有Team版本,方便开发人员为Windows Vista、Windows Server 2008、Office 2007、移动设备和网络开发最新应用程序.正式版本将在明年二月底发布

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    Just like that the .Net train continues to move along to the next version of the framework. Microsoft

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 released

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    Just like that the .Net train continues to move along to the next version of the framework. Microsoft

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    Larry: I presume you're converting the Xerces C++ project from a previous VS version? Can you post a link to the project you're converting? Vyacheslav: Please let us know what your experiences are with the final release of VS2008, as we did fix several bugs in the areas you mention between Beta2 and RTM. Thanks! Steve Teixeira Group Program Manager, Visual C++

  • Anonymous
    November 21, 2007
    http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-shipped.asp

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    The Visual Studio and .Net teams are succeeding.  But MSDN is letting you down.  There seems to be almost no documentation for the new .net 3.5 features in the MSDN library.  All the super documentation that has been available for LINQ in the past seems to have disappeared from MSDN.  I have much of it on my system.  But when I search for it with Google, search on MSDN, or look in the MSDN library shipped with VS2008 or online, I can't find any of it.

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    Steve, I'm sorry, but now I can't seem to reproduce the problem. Here is the file I'm working with: http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/3.8/icu4c-3_8-src.tgz MD5(icu4c-3_8-src.tgz)= 67cc2650fbcae4c8e3ba5ce4dda4b072 Here's what I saw earlier: open allinone.sln convert, no backup vs exited with no warning/error before convert complete but reopen solution, builds fine

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    The Team Suite trial install took 50 mins on my Core 2 Duo out of which 20 mins was for SQL Server Express. Really, MS needs to find a solution to installing VS and patching VS and Vista. How does Office manage to install so fast?

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    Hi, Several of you have asked me about when the VS 2008 Pro Edition will be available. The Pro Edition will be available for download in the next week or so.   The packaged VS Pro product will start showing up on retail store shelves in January. -somasegar

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    Quick update: A patch will be applied on 11/22 (est 6PM PST) that should fix the issues with partial/failing dowloads. VS08 Pro went live on the MSDN dowloads on 11/21, and it is available on the MSDN Subscription Home page as well for MSDN subscribers.

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    "A patch will be applied on 11/22 (est 6PM PST) that should fix the issues with partial/failing dowloads." Good news... but I've already used my months download quota trying to get this. If only you guys had used MS File Transfer Manager I could have had it already (and several times over for the bandwidth and effort).  I wonder how much bandwidth Akamai has wasted with this wretched excuse for a downloader?  Who decided to use it?  If you press 'pause', it declares the file corrupt when you resume: and if you don't, it crashes at about 90-95% complete anyway.

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    Suppose I want to have Express editions and the Pro version side by side, why can't I have a common full MSDN for both?

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    Vs2008 professional crashes in Find dialog on x64 system. Very bad! Hope that a hotfix will be come fast!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    November 22, 2007
    I agree. The akamai downloader is hopeless. I'm getting the same wretched "persistent network error" stuff that others are, when working behind our corporate proxy/firewall (whose settings I've no control over). Plus it looks like an ancient Win95 era applet. Please drop it and use something modern and reliable. It's hopeless. I've wasted 2-3 days now at msdn without downloading anything. mike_diack@hotmail.com

  • Anonymous
    November 23, 2007
    Martin - can you please send me a personal email to cscott@microsoft.com as I would like to discuss your crash with you and see if we can help. All the others regarding the Akamai download, again I apologize for your troubles.  As we try different options to try and improve your experience, we sometimes run in to challenges given the breadth and size of our product.  We appreciate your feedback and will work to continue to improve your download experience. Carol

  • Anonymous
    November 23, 2007
    Hi Nick, we have recognized the variety of issues that need improvement ASAP, and your inputs have been great. We NEVER want our customers to be exposed to the system failures on any kind, but even with best of intentions, some issue creep up. We are working on the revision to the DLM 2.2.2.1 and trying to get the fixes in over the weekend. In the mean time, most critical downloads have been posted to MSDN's download service, so please download what you need from the MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Based on your feedback, we are trying to implement the fixes to the following:

  • DLM should download to Downloads by default
  • the proxy issue that crashes the IE if proxy server is enabled but the address field is left empty
  • Retry on downloads: we have seen that if your session expires (you lose your network connection because PC goes to sleep, for example, and your MSDN session expires) the downloads can’t be restored (we are looking in to this)
  • DLM cannot be restarted if you close it and try again later (session issue again) A new DLM will be coming soon, by the end on 11/07 at the latest, and we are trying to hurry it up as soon as possible. We recognize the inconvenience this caused you and others who experience it.  Thanks for your patience and support. We are doing all we can to make sure this does not happen again. Thomas
  • Anonymous
    November 23, 2007
    Hi Nick, we have recognized the variety of issues that need improvement ASAP, and your inputs have been great. We NEVER want our customers to be exposed to the system failures on any kind, but even with best of intentions, some issue creep up. We are working on the revision to the DLM 2.2.2.1 and trying to get the fixes in over the weekend. In the mean time, most critical downloads have been posted to MSDN's download service, so please download what you need from the MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Based on your feedback, we are trying to implement the fixes to the following:
  • DLM should download to Downloads by default
  • the proxy issue that crashes the IE if proxy server is enabled but the address field is left empty
  • Retry on downloads: we have seen that if your session expires (you lose your network connection because PC goes to sleep, for example, and your MSDN session expires) the downloads can’t be restored (we are looking in to this)
  • DLM cannot be restarted if you close it and try again later (session issue again) A new DLM will be coming soon, by the end on 11/07 at the latest, and we are trying to hurry it up as soon as possible. We recognize the inconvenience this caused you and others who experience it.  Thanks for your patience and support. We are doing all we can to make sure this does not happen again. Thomas

  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2007
    PLEASE!!! Include .Net Framework into upcoming Vista SP1/ XP SP3. PLEASE!!! Why are you slowing down .Net adoption?

  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2007
    fantastic

  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2007
    Steve, just a quick update: I've had it happen twice now converting ICU (icu4c-3_8-src.tgz) and once converting Xerces (xerces-c-src_2_8_0.tar.gz). However I cannot make it happen on demand for the life of me. I don't see any event of watson log events. Because it seems to actually convert correctly, I can move on. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

  • Anonymous
    November 26, 2007
    David Jacobson -  I am sorry that you are experience issues with the documentation. Which search terms for LINQ and .NET 3.5 are you not getting results for now?  And you have searched at MSDN online as well as the local library ('offline' help)? Is the documentation also absent from the Table of Contents now? April Reagan - AprilR@Microsoft.com

  • Anonymous
    November 26, 2007
    No doubt you've heard the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 was released . Aaron Stebner has posted a list

  • Anonymous
    November 26, 2007
    No doubt you&#39;ve heard the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 was released . Aaron Stebner has posted a

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2007
    Now that Thanksgiving is over, I have to pay attention again. Of course the biggest news is that Visual

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2007
    To LINQ or not to LINQ

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2007
    Last week Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufacturing . If you have a MSDN Subscription, you can

  • Anonymous
    November 27, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is history and Microsoft actually hit its public milestone for the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version. Nice work from the Developer Tools division in Redmond and Soma must be grinning like a Cheshire cat! We've just announced full support for VS 2008 RTM at InnerWorkings, so there's plenty of good news to spread around these days...

  • Anonymous
    November 29, 2007
    In VS2008 has anyone noticed any enhancements in custom user controls, hosting activex controls ..stability. Is there a VS controls  dev teamblog ?

  • Anonymous
    November 30, 2007
    When will VS2008 MSDN distribution happen?

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2007
    Hi Rob, if you are looking for MSDN library on public downloads you can find it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6FF3BC60-32C8-4C22-8591-A20BF8DFF1A2&displaylang=en Thank you, Carol

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2007
    Hi Rob, if you are looking for MSDN library on public downloads you can find it here (and we will work to make it more discoverable so thank you for your question!): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6FF3BC60-32C8-4C22-8591-A20BF8DFF1A2&displaylang=en Thank you, Carol

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2007
    VS 2008 RTM is presenting the "configuring environment for first use" dialog on every start up.  Is there something I can do to prevent this?

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2007
    Hi Colby - the dialog you see should only appear the first time you run Visual Studio. Perhaps some of the settings that get written during that process aren't persisting for some reason. Can you try:

  1. devenv.exe /resetsettings If this doesn't help, then try:
  2. devenv.exe /setup (on Vista you'll need elevated permissions - from the start menu, right click on the "Command Prompt" shortcut and select "Run as Administrator") Finally if that hasn't fixed it, please log an issue on the Microsoft Connect site and we'll work with you to investigate the issue further:
  3. http://connect.microsoft.com/visualstudio then Sign In (top-right corner of page) with your Windows Live ID (hotmail/passport account); then click the "Submit a Bug or Suggestion" link; then click the green "submit feedback" button and follow the process. thanks, Ken

  • Anonymous
    December 05, 2007
    Thanks Ken.   Neither solution helped.  I found a bug on Connect (ID = 107501) that has been closed but it is the exact same situation, including the use of roaming profiles. I don't want to create a dup.  Is there a way you can reopen that existing bug? Thanks. Colby

  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2007
    With the recent release of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, not to mention prior versions like Microsoft

  • Anonymous
    December 06, 2007
    With the recent release of the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, not to mention prior versions like Microsoft

  • Anonymous
    December 08, 2007
    Wow! Great !!!! thank you a lot

  • Anonymous
    December 14, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped!

  • Anonymous
    December 16, 2007
    i am chinnese ,Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped!

  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2007
    Sure - it's a little late in coming, but still feels good to say that Visual Studio 2008 has shipped

  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2007
    Sure - it&#39;s a little late in coming, but still feels good to say that Visual Studio 2008 has shipped

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2007
    It&#39;s my pleasure to tell you we shipped VS2008 and .NET FX 3.5 today. Soma has all the details on

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2007
    First, if you didn't hear the news yet, Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 has shipped! Read Soma's post

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2007
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    December 26, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 (and the .NET Compact Framework 3.5) has shipped - more

  • Anonymous
    December 27, 2007
    Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped!

  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2007
    Is there anyway to download this VS2008ExpressENUX1397868.iso where it doesn't transfer slower than a dialup connection from the south pole in summer during a thunderstorm?? You'd think MSFT could afford to spend a little interest on making sure people could actually pull files from their site as if it were a real site..

  • Anonymous
    December 30, 2007
    2007 was another great year for software. Here are a few software releases that caught my eye and imagination

  • Anonymous
    December 30, 2007
    2007 was another great year for software. Here are a few software releases that caught my eye and imagination

  • Anonymous
    December 30, 2007
    Now Visual Studio 2008 code named Orcas is out of door with incredible features. T he most highly anticipated

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2008
    Hi Soma, When would the retail packages be available in India

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2008
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2008
    VSS 2005 for VS 2008

  • Anonymous
    January 22, 2008
    I am not thrilled about the .NET FW 3.5. I think wrong technologies are being pushed and right technologies are being pressed. I do not see innvoative and machine critical application can be built without the flexibility in the language and using garbage collectors. You dont want to focus just developers productivity who builds normal applicatins. thanks Mike

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2008
    So the next version of Visual Studio is getting ready to release (it is actually already available for

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2008
    So the next version of Visual Studio is getting ready to release (it is actually already available for

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2008
    Hardware capabilities are growing faster than ever. So software should be able to take the advantage of multi-dual core processsors to build GREAT applications. Otherwise you will be out of the market very soon! PS: I use two different names :) Mike

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2008
    LINQ to SQL went gold a few months ago with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.

  • Anonymous
    February 21, 2008
    LINQ to SQL went gold a few months ago with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5

  • Anonymous
    February 25, 2008
    So there won't be VS2005 SP2. Now we have to buy on. A new version every 2 years. Sounds a nice business for MS. But how can I trust a new version when de previous version does not work fine. Do you remerber VB6 SP6, SP6!!! Visual Studio 2005 is slow. How runs VS2008?. Is it faster? Cheers

  • Anonymous
    March 31, 2008
    Somasegar&#39;s blog reports: I am thrilled to announce that earlier today we shipped Visual Studio 2008

  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2008
    Congrats to the team, is this going to ship to New Zealand?

  • Anonymous
    June 19, 2008
    hi, what's different between Visual Studio 2005 vs Visual Studio 2008 thx

  • Anonymous
    June 20, 2008
    Hi Jurpo - Here is a link to what is new in Visual Studio 2008:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb386063.aspx and here is a whitepaper that talks about this as well:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=17319eb4-299c-43b8-a360-a1c2bd6a421b&displaylang=en

  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2008
    Hi All, I just want to know if we ship framework 3.5 as a prerequisite along with our assemblies, is it necessary to ship framework 2.0 also. According to what I have understood, framework 3.5 is built over framework  2.0 adding new assemblies for functions like WCF,WPF. Please let me know if this is not a correct blog to post this message on. Thanks & Regards, Gulab.

  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2008
    Hi Gulab, .NET FX 3.5 package does include .NET FX 2.0 and .NET FX 3.0 packages.  So, if you re-distribute .NET FX 3.5 you don't need to include .NET FX 2.0 or 3.0 as it is automatically included in .NET FX 3.5. -somasegar

  • Anonymous
    August 05, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2008
    Visual Studio 2008 is the Best

  • Anonymous
    December 02, 2008
    I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like to

  • Anonymous
    February 04, 2010
    Hi Somasegar, Is it possible to install VS 2008 without the .NET Framework 3.5?  It is not supported on XP Embedded.