I wrote on Sunday about my week-long, beyond-weird troubles installing Visual Studio 2008: lack of Internet bandwidth, lost shipments, defective DVDs, and generally bad installation karma. On Monday, ...

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Sometimes, life really is like a box of chocolates. The same can also be said for software upgrades. Take, for instance, Visual Studio 2008. After all its various CTPs and RTMs, I feel like I've been ...

When trying to install a package in Visual Studio Installer, we get an error stating that the operation has failed. Since it hinders our workflow, we need to find a ...

Microsoft has today released the Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta and the .NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1 Beta, adding new features and improvements in responsiveness, stability, and ...

Installation and testing For review purposes, I used three installations of VS08: Professional Edition installed on a Windows Vista for x64 laptop along with Expression Web and Expression Blend; Team ...