Category Archives: Visual Studio 2008

Back in November of 2008, Microsoft released an update to Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition (aka “Data Dude”), which added full support for SQL Server 2008. There is also valuable new functionality, such as extensible static code analysis … Continue reading →

Gert Drapers has announced that the 2008 version of Power Tools for Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition is now available for download. This is great news, especially since they have added more static code analysis capability, including integration … Continue reading →

Microsoft is holding a free all day event at the Marriot DTC in Denver. They will be talking about Visual Studio 2008, LINQ, Agile Development, etc. This is meant to be similar to the old Developer Days. One of the … Continue reading →

Microsoft’s S. "Soma" Somasegar announced that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 will release to manufacturing (RTM) by the end of November 2007, at a keynote address at TechEd 2007 Europe. This makes it the first of the "holy … Continue reading →

meraTechPort has news that Microsoft will be releasing a portion (for most of the base class libraries) of the .NET 3.5 Framework with Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie has more detail here.  There will be integrated debugging support for … Continue reading →

Denis Gobo has a good link post with all the various downloads for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. From what is publicly available, it looks like Windows Server 2008 will RTM in November, Visual Studio 2008 will RTM around the same … Continue reading →