The Best Part of Installing Visual Studio 2008

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The Best Part of Installing Visual Studio 2008

The best part of installing Visual Studio 2008 ...

... is that I don't have to follow up with a four hour install of SP1 for Visual Studio 2005!

Print | posted @ Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:45 AM

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# re: The Best Part of Installing Visual Studio 2008

by Andrew Robinson at 11/20/2007 5:15 AM

at least not yet.

# re: The Best Part of Installing Visual Studio 2008

by Wyatt Barnett at 11/20/2007 3:09 PM

Yeah, if the everloving download would actually finish successfully, I would tell you all about how great my install experience has been.

# re: The Best Part of Installing Visual Studio 2008

by Dave at 11/20/2007 3:25 PM

Easy install and Microsoft in the same thought? What is the world coming to?

# re: The Best Part of Installing Visual Studio 2008

by Ian Hughes at 11/20/2007 5:27 PM

I had an interesting thing happen installing the 3.5 Framework yesterday.

The list of recommended applications to close to complete installation, included the 3.5 Framework installer. I clicked ignore and everything seems gravy. But that was a first.

# re: The Best Part of Installing Visual Studio 2008

by Mike S at 11/21/2007 1:55 PM

But you do have to put up with the 1 hour install of the TFS client. Fortunately, yesterday was a day of meetings, but still, why? It took longer than the VS2008 install.

# re: The Best Part of Installing Visual Studio 2008

by Karl at 11/27/2007 8:31 PM

My boss seriously learnt RoR in the time it took to install VS.NET 2008...I swear after the 4 hours it took (uninstalling the beta, struggled with getting past installing the framework (had to install it separatly to finally get it working)) he had his first RoR application up and running...