Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions Released!

Question

Today, we are proud to announce that the Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions have been released to the public and are now available for download on the new Visual Studio Express Web Site!  The Visual Studio Express Editions are a set of fun, easy-to-use IDEs for the hobbyist and non-professional developer.  They offer power and productivity in a simple package and best of all, they are free!

 

Learn more about the Visual Studio Express products:

 

·         Visual Basic Express Edition

·         Visual C# Express Edition

·         Visual C++ Express Edition

·         Visual Web Developer Express Edition

 

Also be sure to check out the great content and samples that the Visual Studio Express team has put together for this release.  Enjoy and happy coding!

 

Weston Hutchins

Program Manager - VS Express

 

Answer 1

Registration of the VB Express edition is not working for me.  After the 'Register now' link is clicked during startup, a blank page is shown in IE.  Not able to use the product.  I am hoping that you can resolve this issue sooner. 

 

No need of releasing new versions of the product, if it cannot be used.....

 

 

Answer 2

Yea I have the same question. Now I can not edit anything. after I putting the email its a blank page. I can not even go into visual basic. I think that is THE Microsoft peoples problem and they have to fix it soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 MSDN

FIX IT

Answer 3

The Registration link is not working. IE stops working after I input my user name and password combination to do product activation.

 

Fix this!

 

 

 

Answer 4

yeah, same problem.

ive been getting a blank page for over a week now. this was the only way i could do my final project for a class teaching C#. i guess i shouldnt have depened on you guys so much.. now i have to retake the class.

Answer 5

Is there anyway to obtain these on a DVD. My ADSL connection is very slow where I live and work (<1MB).

I'd be willing to pay for the postage and time (within reason)

 

Contact me directly - I'm in the UK BTW

 

Sal

 

Answer 6

The registration site for the Beta versions has been "taken down"?  Download and install the RTM versions...

 

Wouldn't it have made much more sense to display a web page with a message rather than a blank page when trying to register a Beta version?  That way people would not waste so much time trying to figure out why they cannot register their product.  Another option, of course, would have been to let people continue to register and use the beta version, perhaps even with a note on the activation page that there is a better version available.  Also, the programs do have a start page to let people know when the beta versions have been supplanted.

 

Alas, I no longer have high-speed internet, and my dial-up connection is flakey at best.  At least I still have 30 days use of the beta version I downloaded earlier this year while I wait for an install CD with a new (registerable) version.

 

Keith

Answer 7

I have been trying to just get through the install of express 2008 on a Win XP machine.  It bails during the install of the .NET software and never gets any futher. 

Any suggestions?

Thank you

Answer 8

every time i click on register on either of these products i get that message that "this product has been registered"

i got my copies by downloading an ISO image file.....i burnt it on to a dvd,then ran set-up and everything worked out just fine

i want to get those benefits....

 

i have never gotten my Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions tutorial books....where are they??,yet i registered them

Answer 9

Mr. Hutchins,

I don't think I would be too proud of VB Express since it is full of bugs like, if you have more then one bound combobox, it will change the data in your database; it will crash if you try to make a build while debug is running; and many, many more. The help asist that come with the program is full of broken links and incomplete samples which take hours and hours to decipher if it can be done. I have given up and have uninstalled the nightmare and gone back to ASM. I presently think that ASM is a much superior programming base then any that MS has produced to date. I removed C++ because it took too long to ever write a program with it.

If MS had produced a language that was complete, their operating system would not crash as it does. To add insult to injury, MS has made the move to WPA so hard drives can't be cleaned up, it is getting harder every day to allow MS products on my computers. Every time one of MS's products is installed, it is a battle of nerves to see what damage it is going to do.

Answer 10

Is there a solution to the registration/blank web page problem mentioned? I teach programming in a high-school and have had the network manager install visual studio my machine only to discover that i cannot use it without registration and that the registration process is broken.

 

i am very keen for some kind of resolution - either so that i can get it working or look elsewhere for my programming IDE.

 

 

 

Answer 11

 

How to register?

I can't get the Key from the email.

Answer 12

Hello, I´m a big fan of C# and .Net in general, so we decided to migrate from java (Netbeans) + portgresql to VS Express + SQL Express, about two years ago, because .Net is a great tools for developers and it allows us to develop very fast.

 

But VS 2008 is full of bugs, we have try to use it and simply don't work, is slowwwwww to the hell mainly for web development (we use core 2 duo machines and 2GB of RAM), and sometimes it behaves erraticaly, like it have life or something like that, even with the hotfixes. It seems the editors were made by semi junior programmers, hehe.

 

I recomend NOT to install it, until it have a service pack or something. It have many great ideas for development, but simply don´t work, and instead of being a help is a head ache. Use Visual Studio 2005 instead, unless you really need to use all the features of Net Framework 3.5

 

 

 

 

Answer 13

Hi,

 

  I installed Visual Web Develper 2008 express edition, sucessfuly on Vista home basic. Every feature is working, but when I click, Design/Split view buttons there is no response, and i can't view Design mode and current tab goes does not respond until I close it. I appreciate if any body gives solution.

 

Bye
Raj

Answer 14

Can one acquire SQL Server Express 2008 by DVD now? How is that done?

 

I managed to get the Visual Developer Express 2008 DVD - but I think SQL Server Express 2005 was on it. I think I e-mailed someone..but can't remember who.

 

Answer 15

vbhlep wrote:

Registration of the VB Express edition is not working for me.  After the 'Register now' link is clicked during startup, a blank page is shown in IE.  Not able to use the product.  I am hoping that you can resolve this issue sooner.    No need of releasing new versions of the product, if it cannot be used.....

That is the same problem that I have.  Vista will not allow registration in either VB Express 2005 or VB Express 2008. What are we supposed to do, lose all the work and download and install every 30 days? At least 2 of us have this registration problem, whether both are related to Vista is not certain. Looks like Microsoft would aware of this by now!

Answer 16

Visual C# installation FAIL......

here is the installation process (+the error message): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4_L6fmJclw

and the results:
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/743/finalresultsv.png