Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions Released
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Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions Released
Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions have been released.
Their biggest change for me (in relation to 2005) is support for C#3 and VB9, both of which add some great new language features (see thread here).
Their biggest change for me (in relation to 2005) is support for C#3 and VB9, both of which add some great new language features (see thread here).
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XNA 2 beta, surely?
Unfortunately, from what I read, it adds support for VS 2005 (non-EE), but doesn't work yet in VS 2008.
I'm having problems with VS 2008 on my home machine; it looks like I'm missing a particular Windows update to .NET 2.0 and so can't compile projects. It mysteriously started working on my work machine this morning (after the same issues) so I'm going to try reinstalling. :\
Unfortunately, from what I read, it adds support for VS 2005 (non-EE), but doesn't work yet in VS 2008.
I'm having problems with VS 2008 on my home machine; it looks like I'm missing a particular Windows update to .NET 2.0 and so can't compile projects. It mysteriously started working on my work machine this morning (after the same issues) so I'm going to try reinstalling. :\
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It adds support for C#3, as well as the .NET 3.0 features that only worked in VS 2005 Standard (eg WPF designer).King Harold wrote:why are you using 2008 then?
A further plus point is that Visual C++ EE supports Win32 projects straight out of the box, without needing to install the Windows SDK (which is a fairly hefty 1.2GB download).
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Heh, I take it you never used the betas for 2005. They were horribly unstable.King Harold wrote:I heard some stories about VS 2008 that were rather scary though (ranging from crashes to corrupted files)
Anyhow, I took the easy way out and reinstalled Windows (only took 15 minutes, hooray for the new installer) and now VS 2008 is installed and Brass 3 has been gradually updated to C#3. I fear I won't be able to take advantage of the full .NET 3.5 functionality, sadly, without breaking Mono compatibility, so I'm still targetting .NET 2.0.