Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008
Version of Visual Studio
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Version9.0
CodenameOrcas
Latest build9.0.30703.1 (Service Pack 1)
Released2007-11-19
Support end2018-04-10
Replaces
Visual Studio 2005
Replaced by
Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2008 (codenamed Orcas) is the sixth major release of Visual Studio, released on 19 November 2007 alongside .NET Framework 3.5. This release introduces the XAML designer (codenamed "Cider") and support for Windows Vista.

This release drops support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP without Service Pack 2.

This version of Visual Studio comes bundled by default with Microsoft Visual C++ version 15.xx.

List of known builds[edit | edit source]

Beta 1[edit | edit source]

Beta 2[edit | edit source]

RTM[edit | edit source]

Service Pack 1[edit | edit source]