Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Monday, November 19. 2007

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 contain a ton of new functionality and improvements. VS 2008 enables you to build applications that target multiple versions of the .NET Framework. This means you can use VS 2008 to open, edit and build existing .NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 applications (including ASP.NET 2.0 applications using ASP.NET AJAX 1.0), and continue to deploy these application on .NET 2.0 machines. .NET 3.5 has ASP.NET AJAX built-in (no separate download required). VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express includes a significantly improved HTML web designer (the same one that ships with Expression Web). Visual Studio 2008 has built-in debugger support to automatically step-into and debug this code on demand (VS 2008 can pull down the source for the appropriate .NET Framework library file automatically for you).