When will Visual Studio 2008 Professional Trial version be up for
downloading? We are not a MSDN Subscriber and therefore we want to download
the trial version now and then purchase the license soon (upgrading from
Visual Studio Professional 2005). Related to that, does somebody ...

I downloaded this a few days ago, burned a DVD and then installed. However
the installation failed halfway through. Read a post with the same problem
that mentioned downloading it again. Tried that but now the DVD burn usually
fails at 99%. It worked once but the DVD produced ...

I currently have VS2008 installed on a machine.
Are there any know issues if I now install VS2005 (given that VS2008 is
already installed).
I know that they can both be run side-by-side, but does the install order

I've gone to subscriber downloads, and clicked to download VS 2008 Prof Ed
for DVD ISO.  After downloading the ActiveX, it tries to start downloading,
but one of two error messages keeps popping up, either
"The server has prematurely ended the connection.   Retrying may resolve ...

Hi, I am soooo new to .Net the paints still wet. I have been having a play
with the various form controls and, am wondering where are the tools to draw
lines and squares?
How do you draw a line or square?

I've down loaded both the Professional and Team Architec versions of 2008
and encounter the same problem in both. Projects that compile in 2005 with
no issues fail to compile in the 2008. Both display the following error:
"c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 9 ...

I do reports and models in SQL Server 2005 (SSRS), so I assume I will have to
keep VS2005 on my system until we move to SQL Server 2008, correct?
Any problems having both versions installed?
Thanks,

of visual studio 2008?
it consists of 5 parts
Reference Assemblies and IntelliSense
Headers and Libraries

Already have VS 2005 pro installed on W2k Pro and have dnld'd VS 2008 Pro.
I understand that VS 2005 and VS 2008 can co-exist and run independently
with no problems.
Are there any good reasons to keep VS 2005 after installing VS 2008?

Hi experts
I've built an email application using VB.Net 2005. All works ok except the
hyperlink part. This is part of what I have.
mail.IsBodyHtml = True

[originally posted in vsnet.ide which isn't quite the correct group]
In the "Top Downloads" list of the MSDN subscriber home page, all
versions of Visual Studio 2008 say "x86 and x64 WOW", so it sounds
like they're 32-bit applications running under the WOW subsystem on

I donwloaded VS 2008 and the download manager says it is 100% complete yet it
is not in the location in which I specified.   Does the download manager put
the .iso file somewhere?

Hi VStudio gurus!
I courious to find out if there is a way in Visual Studio Team System for
Testers to programmatically (unattented) take a screenshoot , prefereably
png or jpg and attach it to the FAIL report?

Are there any record and play(back) functionallity for Generic Test type?
It is very common in theses types of test apps but I cannot find the record
button.
I'm using VSTS 2005

I have a Windows Service that reads the settings from the App.config file. If
I need to make a change to one of the settings, I have to rebuild the app and
reinstall the service. Is it possible to have this App.config file sitting in
some directory and let the service know where ...