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Microsoft Monday released the final bits of Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5, which are foundation elements of its development tools suite. The Visual Studio suite of tools, including ...

Visual Studio 2008, codenamed Orcas, has been in development since before the release of its predecessor, Visual Studio 2005. The new version is aimed at, and has been developed alongside, Windows ...

Technologies mentioned in this article include VB.NET, C#, and XML. I discovered a serious bug in the Visual Basic 9.0 compiler shortly before Visual Studio 2008 was released. The symptom is that ...

One of the new features that will be part of Visual Studio 2008, previously code-named Orcas, is the ability for developers to target different frameworks from within the upcoming integrated ...

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack (SP) 1, which Microsoft released to manufacturing on August 11, isn't just a bunch of fixes and patches. Why not just call SP1 a new release, say Visual Studio 2009, I ...

When I wrote about free Ruby on Rails IDEs last Wednesday, I drew a comment from "teki321:" "I would never put 'Ruby in Steel' in the context of free. It's an extension for a commercial application, ...

Accompanying .Net Framework 3.5 also available for download to MSDN subscribers now with disk versions to be offered in the next few weeks Microsoft has released to manufacturing its Visual Studio ...

Microsoft has announced that the next version of Visual Studio, previously known by the code name “Orcas,” will now be formally known as Visual Studio 2008. Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 will become ...