Posted By: Charles | Nov 19th, 2007 @ 9:00 AM | 34,373 Views | 37 Comments
Today is the day: Visual Studio 2008 RTM is here!!! Our good friend and Developer Division VP S. Somasegar (Soma), Principal Group Program Manager Carol Grojean and Principal Program Manager Lead Jeff Beehler sit down with me to discuss this paramount VS release. Did you know that Team System was heavily used during the development of VS 2008 (and therefore VS2008 Team System. This is great dogfooding!)?

VS 2008 was completely built using the patterns and pratices derived from MQ (Milestone Quality - see Carol's interview that covers this in detail) and Intentional Engineering (see Emma Williams' interview to learn all Intentional Engineering in the Developer Division).

This is the best release of VS to date, rife with innovations from profound IDE enhancements, debugging, performance, CLR to associated languages and tools.

Today is a great day! Smiley Tune in and celebrate with some of the DevDiv leaders. Congratulations to all involved, especially to those of you out there who provided valuable feedback and suggestions all along the way to this grand milestone.

Cheers!
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Good news, if you let us know when we can download it on MSDN it would be fantastic news.
Jug
Jug
Congrats on a job well done! Smiley

MSDN seem to be struggling at the moment, or at least it was just hours ago, and I doubt our subscription covers Team Suite and not just Pro, which isn't out yet, so I may just take a look at the 90 day trial. By that time, the smoke from this will no doubt have cleared (probably just within days really), and the nice thing is that I can just keep working on projects I created with that version when we get the real thing. So thanks for also providing the trial copies.
Charles' link is a redirect link from Microsoft's Outlook Web Access server. Here is the direct link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx
littleguru
littleguru
<3 Seattle
Nice to see it RTMed Smiley Let the Visual Studio Shell fun begin Big Smile
BlackTiger
BlackTiger
If you stumbled and fell down, it doesn't mean yet, that you're going in the wrong direction.
Seems like Akamai Download Manager doesn't works in IE7 on Vista...

When normal MSDN Subscriber's links will be available?
Yea, in order to get it to work with IE7 in Vista you have to disable the popup blocker for the site.  It is very annoying.

Also, since it is an ActiveX control it runs in IE7's "Protected Mode".  So it the download will end up being located in the virtualized hard drive space IE7 creates for security.  That is why you received the prompt about saving the file to temporary internet files.
vesuvius
vesuvius
Das Glasperlenspiel
It's exactly two years (give or take a few days) since I downloaded C# Express and converted (Proselyte) from C++.

In those two years the rate of change and progression within the language and Visual Studio technologies make it a beyond exiting time to be developing .NET software.

Congratulations, and very well done!
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