Microsoft Tuesday announced that the latest revision of its premier development suite – Visual Studio 2008, or VS2008 for short – is now generally available. Developed under the code name "Orcas," the package was actually completed in mid-November, ahead of schedule, and made available to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers for download at that time. However, this is the first time it is available for volume licensing through resellers and via retail outlets.
"With its inclusion on the January 2008 volume licensing price list, the product is now available to sell and ship to your customers via Open, Select, Enterprise Agreement (EA), and [as] Full Packaged Product," said a blog post by Bruce Kyle, an architect evangelist on the developer and platform evangelism team.
"With its inclusion on the January 2008 volume licensing price list, the product is now available to sell and ship to your customers via Open, Select, Enterprise Agreement (EA), and [as] Full Packaged Product," said a blog post by Bruce Kyle, an architect evangelist on the developer and platform evangelism team.
Among the additions in VS2008 is support for Language Integrated Query, or LINQ, which provides the capability to handle query and set operations, such as SQL statements, directly within .NET languages like C# and Visual Basic. VS2008 also adds the ability to write applications that work with multiple versions of the .NET Framework, including versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5, and it provides tools for building applications with a similar look and feel to Office 2007's "ribbon" user interface.
Link: Microsft Visual Studio 2008 Web Site
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Well, it wasn't.
And to answer the top poster, no, just to MSDN subscribers, although anyone could download the trial or Express Editions.
I'm not an MSDN subscriber. The 90 days version was there at the day of the release. After 90 days you need to feed it a serial to make it work forever.
Good luck with that
ASP "classic" is a dead end. PHP do the same also works on IIS but it's more stable that ASP, is quick and robust. So, there aren't seasons to stick with ASP but to keep backward compatibility.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en
I personally had some problems with the project wizards in it, but I guess that's stuff that'll be ironed out for the final release. The MFC controls are based on the BCGControlBar Professional suite by BCGSoft, so this is much of what it is about: http://www.bcgsoft.com/featuretour/bcgcontrolbar-tour.htm (not all features are there, IIRC the grid control, Outlook calendar, and IntelliSense editor, but most of it)
And yes, for .NET ribbon controls, you'd at this point need to purchase something like the BCGControlBar .NET Edition, Codejock's controls, DevXpress, or other suites.
Huh? there was well over 100 changes alone for unmanaged C++ in 2008... unmanaged C++ is one of microsoft's biggest tools in VS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Report_1
And I would also call the new multi core supporting C++ compiler a "real change". :p It can and tries (where possible) to now compile in parallel! If you have a dual core processor or more, that is.
VS could do so much to help with development, and it doesn't. For example, why can't it keep the header files automatically synched up with the implementation file? Why doesn't it support automatic refactoring like IntelliJ does? VS used to be a great IDE, but it has fallen behind significantly and they don't seem to care to actually improve to where it speeds up development rather than slow it down...mostly because all the manpower is behind managed code, which is going to save the world, or something.
(Woops, forgot to hit reply to the thread. My bad.)
it is worth the upgrade if you use it a lot. if not, stick to VS2005.
PS: VS2008 in vista is very good as well. they improved the performance a lot.
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