VS2008 designed for Vista with better aesthetics and usability
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Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth 
Introduction: While we all love focusing on language and framework features, sometimes it is nice to get small aesthetic and usability enhancements. The Visual Studio 2008 IDE has plenty of those as you can see in this video. Related to
that, VS2005 does the job on Windows Vista, but it is quite obvious (to me at least!) that it is a "ported" application and not one designed to fully take advantage of the platform; in contrast, VS2008 leverages Vista-only features as I demonstrate in this
video. The relevant posts on my blog are
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here, here,
here,
here,
here, here,
here,
here and
here.
[Maybe this is one occasion where it is faster to watch the video than read about each featurette on my blog 
]
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Of course, it was just some humor, but i must admit that VS2008 looks great. I'll wait and see !
Thanks,Nestor
This works fine for me so maybe it is a specific firewall/machine config issue.
In the meantime have you tried the Download option (10MB ZIP)?
Try that instead please (click on the 'here' word in the Download video section above)...
Cheers
Daniel (on holiday)
Thanks,
Mark
Beiley Software
Mark, VS2008 supports side-by-side installation with VS2005.
Note that you don't need the Beta, VS2008 was released last month, so get the RTM. You can find this in your MSDN subscription or if you are not an MSDN subscriber get the trial.
Cheers
Daniel
Darn my luck, Daniel, but I cannot get this download whatsoever today!
Did it roll off the edge of a HDD when new content was added?
Cheers.
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