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  It's there! Today Visual Studio 2008 is released and arrived at the MSDN download sites for MSDN Subscriptions. It was announced only two weeks ago that Visual Studio 2008 would be released to MSDN before the end of November. And guess what? It is an early release as it is ready for download today November 19. I am downloading it ...

Yesterday I received information that there was a timing issue in the VS2008 Beta 2 VPCs. The effect of this timing issue is that the VPC will expire early and that is only in a couple of days from now on Thursday, November 1. The VPC expires at the operating system level and that makes it impossible to extend the timeout period for the ...

I had three weeks of quality time with my wife and kids. As I'm normally spending almost all of my time in front of my computer screen the SLA (Service Level Agreement) with the family required me to stay away from the computer and do some fun things with the family. And I did ... we did some camping and did rollercoaster rides in a few ...

Update to my previous blog ... The information discussed yesterday is now also available on the MSDN website:http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx There is an introduction video on Channel 9 with Soma and Scott explaining what Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is all about compared to Beta 1. For one thing... Visual ...