{"id":235,"date":"2007-11-23T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=235"},"modified":"2007-11-23T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T20:53:00","slug":"visual-studio-2008-rtm-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2007\/11\/visual-studio-2008-rtm-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2008 RTM now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the developer-types out there, Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code-named &quot;Orcas&quot;), has been released and is now available for download.&#160; You can download a trial version on the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/products\/aa700831.aspx\">Try Visual Studio 2008<\/a> site.&#160; Best of all, if you have an active MSDN Subscription, you&#8217;re already licensed to run the latest version of Visual Studio.&#160; Just use the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/subscriptions\/default.aspx\">MSDN Subscriber Downloads<\/a> page.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s already a lot of useful information on VS 2008 on other sites and blogs.&#160; I&#8217;ll just plug one of the more convenient ones: You no longer have to have multiple versions of Visual Studio involved if you plan to deploy to .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 applications.&#160; That means that. unless you need to deploy to .NET 1.x platforms, you can replace VS 2005 with VS 2008.&#160; I&#8217;m getting warmed up to <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/netframework\/aa904594.aspx\">LINQ<\/a> and some of the other new features in the IDE.&#160; Good stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the developer-types out there, Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code-named &quot;Orcas&quot;), has been released and is now available for download.&#160; You can download a trial version on the Try Visual Studio 2008 site.&#160; Best of all, if you have an active MSDN Subscription, you&#8217;re already licensed to run the latest version of Visual Studio.&#160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}