Visual Studio 2008, and Visual Studio Team System 2008 codenamed Orcas (a reference to Orcas Island, also an island in Puget Sound,
like Whidbey for the previous 2005 release), were released to MSDN
subscribers on 19 November 2007 alongside .NET Framework 3.5. The source
code for the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is available under a shared source license to some of Microsoft's partners and ISVs.Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 on 11 August 2008.The internal version number of Visual Studio 2008 is version 9.0 while
the file format version is 10.0. Visual Studio 2008 is the last version
to support targeting Windows 2000 for C++ applications.
Visual Studio 2008 is focused on development of Windows Vista, 2007 Office system, and Web applications. For visual design, a new Windows Presentation Foundation visual designer and a new HTML/CSS editor influenced by Microsoft Expression Web are included. J#
is not included. Visual Studio 2008 requires .NET 3.5 Framework and by
default configures compiled assemblies to run on .NET Framework 3.5, but
it also supports multi-targeting which lets the developers choose which
version of the .NET Framework (out of 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, Silverlight CoreCLR or .NET Compact Framework) the assembly runs on. Visual Studio 2008 also includes new code analysis tools, including the new Code Metrics tool (only in Team Edition and Team Suite Edition). For Visual C++, Visual Studio adds a new version of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC 9.0) that adds support for the visual styles and UI controls introduced with Windows Vista. For native and managed code interoperability, Visual C++ introduces the STL/CLR, which is a port of the C++Standard Template Library (STL) containers and algorithms to managed code. STL/CLR defines STL-like containers, iterators and algorithms that work on C++/CLImanaged objects.[89][90]
Visual Studio 2008 features include an XAML-based designer (codenamed Cider), workflow designer, LINQ to SQL designer (for defining the type mappings and object encapsulation for SQL Server data), XSLT debugger, JavaScriptIntellisense support, JavaScript Debugging support, support for UACmanifests, a concurrent build system, among others. It ships with an enhanced set of UI widgets, both for Windows Forms and WPF.
It also includes a multithreaded build engine (MSBuild) to compile
multiple source files (and build the executable file) in a project
across multiple threads simultaneously. It also includes support for compiling PNG-compressed iconresources introduced in Windows Vista. An updated XML Schema designer will ship separately some time after the release of Visual Studio 2008.
The Visual Studio debugger includes features targeting easier debugging of multi-threaded applications. In debugging mode, in the Threads window, which lists all the threads, hovering over a thread will display the stack trace of that thread in tooltips. The threads can directly be named and flagged for easier identification from that window itself.
In addition, in the code window, along with indicating the location of
the currently executing instruction in the current thread, the currently
executing instructions in other threads are also pointed out. The Visual Studio debugger supports integrated debugging of the .NET 3.5 Framework Base Class Library (BCL) which can dynamically download the BCL source code and debug symbols and allow stepping into the BCL source during debugging. As of 2010 a limited subset of the BCL source is available, with more library support planned for later.
Supported .NET Framework versions: 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
The product was released
2007-11-19
Old test results
The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.
Selected Test Results (selected in 'Test Results' table below)
What works
nothing. setup fails.
What does not
instalation.
What was not tested
whole ide.
Additional Comments
wine: Call from 0x7ee2fbde to unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiSetExternalUIRecord, aborting
Multiple Microsoft development tools online/web installers fail to skip "$shtdwn$.req" with FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN (Visual Studio Express Editions, .NET Framework 3.0)
Microsoft .NET Framework: GAC API for managed assembly installation needs reparse point/junction API support (.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 installers and other apps that make use of GAC API)
Multiple Microsoft product installers fail due to ProductID being set during client side "ValidateProductID" standard action (Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, Visual Studio 2008 Prof)
If you intend to install VS 2008 SP1 you need .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
$ bash winetricks -q dotnet35sp1
Winbind component
Make sure you installed 'winbind' component with your distribution package manager.
This is needed for the -Zi option of the compiler, and other mechanisms that handle 'PDB'
(Program Data Base) files.
$ aptitude install winbind (Debian)
$ sudo yum install samba-winbind (Fedora)
err:module:import_dll Library sqdedev.DLL not found
The following installer message in console is expected and harmless:
err:module:import_dll Library sqdedev.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msi3a93.tmp") not found
err:msi:ACTION_CallDllFunction failed to load dll L"C:\\windows\\temp\\msi3a93.tmp"
Compiler gets stuck during code generation (PDB server)
You can create a shell script that starts both mspdbsrv.exe and
VCEXpress.exe, if mspdbsrv.exe is already running, it will be ignored
the second time it is invoked.
/home/yourlogin/.wine is not owned by you / (Permission denied)
Never run wine as root (su, sudo)! Wine doesn't require to be run as root!
You will screw your WINEPREFIX and possibly other things up. If you have run Wine as root you need to:
$ sudo rm -rf ~/.wine
and then run winecfg to set Wine folder structure back up. If you used winetricks script as root you might also need to:
$ sudo rm -rf ~/winetrickscache
Again: Just run wine as regular user and all should be fine.
Installer fails first time
Installer fails first time at:
fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 900a4 (device=9 access=0 func=29 method=0)
err:msi:msi_install_assembly Failed to install assembly L"C:\\users\\\\Temp\\msi2db.tmp\\WcfSvcHost.exe" (0x80070032)
err:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles Failed to install assembly
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallFiles" returned 1603
This is due to missing junction support. The following files are special and cause this problem:
