Visual Studio 2008 Downloads.png "Visual Studio 2008") | Get an early look at Visual Studio 2008The next version of Visual Studio, Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008, will provide an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it will continue in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. To enable early feedback, this page provides links to prerelease versions of Visual Studio 2008, and for technologies that we plan to include in it. As previews of additional technologies become available, we will make them available from this page. |
The Beta 2 release includes most of the products found in the Visual Studio product line. As with all prerelease software, we encourage you only to install these on a secondary machine, or in a virtual machine, as they are not supported by Microsoft Services support teams. As the goal of these previews is to gather feedback from the developer community, please use Microsoft Connect to report any issues, or to suggest improvements. MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Files & Disc Images for Self-installationIf you prefer to install the software yourself, you can download separate disc images for the following products: IMPORTANT: - After the Beta 2 installation has finished, you should run this script to ensure that the installation of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 will not affect the development of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 applications.
- To install Team Foundation Server, you must follow the steps and system requirements details on the download page.
- When installing prerelease software, we advise that you do not install it on a production machine.
VPC Images with Pre-installed SoftwareIf you prefer the convenience of evaluating prerelease software in a virtual machine environment, you can download VPC images for the following products that include pre-installed instances of the prerelease software indicated, including any required prerequisite software. You will need Virtual PC or Virtual Server to run this image. Depending on your hardware, the download files make take between 30-60 minutes to decompress these self-extracting files. IMPORTANT: - After extracting and opening the VPC, you should run this script to ensure that the installation of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 will not affect the development of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 applications.
- These downloads are differencing disks. To use them, you must also download Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Base Image contains the OS and is a one-time download for all the Virtual PC images that lay on top of it.
For previous relelases, see Archived Downloads. | Evaluate Visual Studio 2008MSDN Evaluation Center Download Visual Studio 2008 and receive timely resources to help you make the most of your evaluation experience. Microsoft Secure Content DownloaderMicrosoft Secure Content Downloader (MSCD), based on the Avalanche peer-to-peer (P2P) research project from Microsoft Research Cambridge’s Incubation team, will be trialed beginning July 27th for distribution of Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008, augmenting the traditional, Web-based distribution channel. This trial is scheduled to end on August 22nd. Microsoft Secure Content Downloader is a peer-assisted download manager capable of securely downloading specific files. MSCD is intended for consumers who are downloading from a home PC, or business users whose computers are not behind a corporate firewall. If you use MSCD from behind a corporate firewall, you may be unable to download content, and may adversely affect other clients' ability to download content. |