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Welcome to the Visual Studio 2008 special kickoff issue. It's always a big deal when Microsoft releases a new versio­­n of the product that this magazine is named after, and VS 2008 is no exception.

The second beta of Visual Studio 2008 hit the streets last week, and according to our upcoming news feature on the release, this is the version everybody has been waiting for. In an exclusive online ...

Microsoft has made its newly-minted Visual Studio 2008 IDE (integrated development environment) widely available. Through released to manufacture in November 2007, it was previously available only to ...

Microsoft has delivered to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. Probably the biggest innovation in this release is Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), but there are also a number ...

Microsoft plans to deliver the Beta 2 bits of Visual Studio 2008 ("Orcas") later this week, according to Scott Guthrie, General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division. "You'll see Beta2 ship later ...

One of our lead developers recently shared a list of some of the most helpful, free Visual Studio add-ins, and we thought you might find it useful. They are as follows (in no particular order) : This ...

On August 9th I discussed Microsoft's recommendations for setting up a Silverlight development environment. As I noted on August 25th, this process hasn't been without its troubles for me. With the ...