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Visual Studio 2008

 

Visual Studio 2008 has Arrived!

With more than 250 new features, Visual Studio 2008 includes significant enhancements in every edition, including Visual Studio Express and Visual Studio Team System. Developers of all levels – from hobbyists to enterprise development teams – now have a consistent, secure and reliable solution for developing applications for the latest platforms: the Web, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, the 2007 Office system, and beyond.


Develop at Light Speed

New and improved visual designers, the ability to target different versions of the .NET framework and the introduction of LINQ for building data-driven applications make developers more productive than ever before.


Build Next Generation Applications

With built-in support for Windows Vista, the Microsoft Office system, ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight, developers can build a broad spectrum of rich interactive applications using the latest technologies.


Work Collaboratively

For development teams, Visual Studio 2008 Team System provides the tools, processes, and guidance to help everyone on the team improve their skills and work more effectively together.

Visual Studio 2008

 

What’s New in Visual Studio 2008?

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Visual Studio 2008 Product Line-up

Visual Studio is available in a variety of configurations ranging from top-of-the-line Visual Studio Team System for development teams, through to Visual Studio Professional for individual developers and Visual Studio Express for hobbyists.

For more information :

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MSDN Subscriptions

The best way to buy Visual Studio 2008 Professional or Visual Studio 2008 Team System is with an MSDN Premium or MSDN Professional Subscription.

An MSDN Premium or Professional Subscription provides upgrade rights to the next release of Visual Studio, technical resources and support, and continuous access to an extensive range of Microsoft software for development and testing purposes - in short all the tools you need to develop great software applications!

Highlights of an MSDN Premium Subscription include:

  • All of the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems
  • A broad range of the latest Microsoft Windows Server System products
  • Office 2007 (full production license)
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  • Four technical support incidents per subscription
  • SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Reporting Services
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  • Unlimited use of MSDN Managed Newsgroups
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  • Free access to MSDN Online Concierge
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  • Over 1,800 royalty-free code samples
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  • Sample applications
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  • Technical product documentation and articles

 

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Try it now!

Visual Studio 2008 provides a fully functional development environment, powerful editing and debugging tools, intuitive visual designers and a host of features and functionality that let you quickly build Windows, Web and Mobile based applications.

But don’t just take our word for it. Request a free 90 day trial of Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite (the top of the range Visual Studio product) to be sent to you to evaluate!

Visual Studio 2008


Or you can download the 90 day trial of the Visual Studio 2008 version of your choice:

Download Visual Studio 2008 90 day trial

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Special Offers

There are currently no special offers available.

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How To Buy

Contact your Microsoft Reseller for pricing information and to purchase Visual Studio 2008 and MSDN Subscriptions. Alternatively, the following Microsoft Resellers are experienced in providing information on Visual Studio and MSDN Subscriptions:

Company NameLocation/CoverageContact Details
Developers Inc.
(Specialist Developer Tools Reseller)		National Coverage0508 DEV INC (0508 338 462)
Richard Vowles
AxonAuckland/Hamilton/Wellington/Christchurch0800 80 60 90
Al Bush or Leanne Nydam
DatacomAuckland & Wellington04 463 7251
Margaret Bradcock
FujitsuNational Coverage04 495 0700
Karen Thorn or Gen Robinson
gen-i
(a division of Telecom)		National Coverage0800 800 334
software@gen-i.co.nz
InsightNational Coverage0800 933 111
Simone Gould

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What customers are saying

"e-Spatial have developed a spatial analysis workbench solution using Visual Studio 2008 and Virtual Earth services. Building the solution using the Visual Studio 2008 package framework and standalone Shell helped reduce the build time and enabled the publishing of the solution as a developer enhancement to Visual Studio 2008."


Matti Seikkula
Chief Information Officer
e-Spatial Limited

"We are now using Visual Studio Team System 2008 to both functionally and load test websites developed in both ASP.NET and MOSS 2007. Although its predecessor VSTS 2005 did an excellent job in these areas we have found that VSTS 2008 provides some significant improvements in terms of ease of use, scalability and test result diagnosis."


Doug Taylor
Chief Architect
Provoke Solutions

"The new LINQ to SQL functionality in C# 3.0 is a great time saver. Prior to LINQ, we had to develop and support a lot of infrastructure to provide access to our databases. With LINQ, much of this infrastructure is provided out of the box, leaving more time to focus on implementing business intelligence."


Myles Henaghan
Senior Software Engineer
Broadcast M.A.P.

"We recently engaged Microsoft partner Datacom as a supplier to leverage the latest development technologies available from Microsoft, including Visual Studio 2008 to further expand our supporting systems capabilities. The latest Microsoft technologies provide the kind of scalable, secure, open standards based and reliable technologies that we demand for our systems."


Phil Purchase
Business Development Manager
Paymark

"Using Visual Studio 2008 Datacom can develop open standards based systems with the required levels of security and performance in shorter time periods than before and with higher levels of functionality leveraging Microsoft latest platform technologies including the .NET 3.5 framework and LINQ."


Phil Purchase
Business Development Manager
Paymark

"Given the considerable experience we have acquired in using Windows Communications Foundation and Windows Workflow in mission critical SOA systems, we have been following their support in Visual Studio with keen interest. We expect the recent designer changes released in Visual Studio 2008 will make it both easier and faster to develop using WCF and WF. Of particular interest to us is the ability of Visual Studio 2008 to multi-target .NET versions - .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5. We also see many potential uses for the new LINQ functionality being released in Visual Studio 2008."


Bohdan Szymanik
Enterprise Architect Manager
Kiwibank

"For Kiwibank Visual Studio Team System 2008 is a logical progression of Microsoft’s Team development offerings. We will be able to leverage the new development toolset’s added functionality – including improved designers, LINQ for data access, multi-targeting and Office development features with little or no disruption as we continue to upgrade from earlier versions of Visual Studio. The addition of Continuous integration in Visual Studio Team system 2008 is a welcome addition as are a number of other new Team system features which will further enhance our software development teams productivity."


Bohdan Szymanik
Enterprise Architect Manager
Kiwibank

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