Visual Studio 2008 RTM'ed

Finally the RTM day is coming: Visual Studio 2008 is officially ready to be downloaded from the MSDN Subscribers Download page (actually only the Team Suite version is available).

I can imagine that for the first days the download bandwidth will be full... :)

Visual Studio 2008 offers a great number of new features, but there's an unvaluable simple feature that makes me so happy: the new multitargeting support. Now you can create projects targeting different .NET Framework versions (2.0, 3.0 and 3.5), so even if VS2008 can be installed side by side with VS2005, you do not need to have VS2005 on your machine since VS2008 offers a superset of the functionalities.

So cool... :)

UPDATE: The Express Editions are available to download,also with a nice All-in-One DVD (iso) package. Wonderful!

Print | posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 3:22 PM

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Hi Stefano,
Do you happen to know when the Professional Edition would be available?

Thanks.
Shen.
Left by Shen Fu on Nov 19, 2007 5:04 PM

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Actually I've received no news about it, but I think it will be released in the next days.
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Nov 19, 2007 5:15 PM

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And don't forget to check the the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8bdaa836-0bba-4393-94db-6c3c4a0c98a1&DisplayLang=en)
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Nov 19, 2007 5:23 PM

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The Express editions are available:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Nov 19, 2007 5:43 PM

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