Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Standard Edition

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Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 Standard Edition enables developers and development teams to create great connected applications on the latest platforms, including the Web, Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008. With Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition, you get an easy to use development environment for building Windows, Web, and consumer device applications.

Please note that after the Beta 2 installation has finished, you should run this script to ensure that the installation of .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 will not affect the development of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 applications.

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File size: 722 MB

Available Languages:

Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish

System Requirements:
  • Supported Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2003; Microsoft Windows Vista; Microsoft Windows XP
  • Processor: 1.6GHz Pentium III+
  • RAM: 1 GB of available physical RAM

Download Manager:

For a better download experience, beta testers should consider using a download manager for obtaining the installation media (ISO images) or the VPC images.

.IMG Information:

For information on “.IMG” files see this MSDN forum thread.

Note: MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from MSDN Subscriber Downloads.

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