Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 released!

You can get the full release here and the smaller Express Edition here.

Some of the new features:

  • VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support
  • VS 2008 Web Designer and CSS Support
  • ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript Support
  • Language Improvements and LINQ
  • Data Access Improvements with LINQ to SQL
  • Lots of other improvements

Scott Guthrie added an important note for two things you should do after VS 2008 installation:

1) You should download and run this batch file. This takes only a few seconds to run, and fixes an issue we found earlier this week with the version policy of System.Web.Extensions.dll – which is the assembly that contains ASP.NET AJAX. If you don’t run this batch file, then existing ASP.NET 2.0 projects built with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and VS 2005 will end up automatically picking up the new version of ASP.NET AJAX that ships in .NET 3.5 Beta2. This will work and run fine – but cause you to inadvertently introduce a .NET 3.5 dependency in the applications you build with VS 2005. Running the batch file will change the version binding policy of the new System.Web.Extensions.dll assembly and ensure that you only use the new .NET 3.5 ASP.NET AJAX version with projects that you are explicitly building for .NET 3.5.

2) If you have ever installed a previous version of “Orcas” or VS 2008 on your machine (either Beta1 or one of the CTP versions), you need to reset your VS 2008 settings after installing Beta2. If you don’t do this, you’ll have an odd set of settings configured (some windows will be in the wrong place), and you’ll potentially see some IDE performance slowness. You can reset your settings by typing “DevEnv /resetsettings” on the command-line against the VS 2008 version.

Also note that this release features a Go-Live Licence, so let’s get ready for VS 2008 deployments 🙂

Visual Studio 2008 Install

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