01-30-2008, 12:00 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 12,959
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Goes Retail
"Microsoft is proud to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2008 in volume licensing, retail, and MSDN download. This exciting new version was released to manufacturing (RTM) on November 19, 2007 and at that time active MSDN subscribers were able to download it right away. With its inclusion on the January 2008 volume licensing price list, the product is now available to sell and ship to your customers via Open, Select, Enterprise Agreement (EA), and Full Packaged Product (FPP)."
Last November, we saw Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 hit RTM. MSDN subscribers have had exclusive access to it for a while; now, it's available to retail and volume licensing customers. For the mobile developers here, there's plenty for you including .NET CF 3.5, support for unit testing, and a new Device Emulator. If you're interested in learning more about VS2008, head over to Microsoft for the lowdown.
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01-30-2008, 05:11 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 237
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Some notes...
Unlike VS 2005, you have to have the Professional version to create apps for Windows Mobile.
It's hard to find info about retail boxes and upgrades on the Microsoft site -- it's as though microsoft want you to spend thousand or so $$$ with a MSDN subscription 
Googleing around reveals that the Upgrade to 2008 Pro is about $475, and the full package is about twice that.
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01-30-2008, 06:02 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 676
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If you attend one of the many launch events, you will get licenses for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008. Check the Microsoft site for a city near you:
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappe...r/default.mspx
I've already registered for my local event. 
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01-30-2008, 07:22 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 237
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Originally Posted by Dyvim
If you attend one of the many launch events, you will get licenses for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008. Check the Microsoft site for a city near you:
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Damn -- nothing is close to me here in Montana 
Anyone wanna go and pretend to be me
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