Jason Zander's WebLogGeneral Manager, Visual Studio, Developer DivisionDownload Install Challenges with VS2008- November 27, 2007 I've seen several folks having problems since we RTM'd VS2008.&160; These usually manifest themselves as as things like "Download Manager - Error" when trying to access the bits (one example post). Our release team and the MSDN team have been working to rectify these issues which have stemmed primarily from capacity problems on the edge network.&160; Things should be working smoother now and updates to the Download Manager are also on their way as required to fix these problems. I'm.http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2007/11/27/download-install-challenges-with-vs2008.as... Couple of Historical Facts- November 23, 2007 At first when I started to see things I've worked on talked about in articles I thought it was pretty cool.&160; And then I started to realize how much is taken down incorrectly.&160; I'm sure it is hard to piece things together after the fact.&160; Take this article. A couple corrections: The CLR was actually built out of the COM+ team as an incubation starting in late 1996.&160; At first we called it the "Component Object Runtime" or COR.&160; That's why several of the...http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2007/11/23/couple-of-historical-facts.aspx Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 RTM!- November 19, 2007 Today we released to manufacturing Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5!&160; I want to congratulate the division on this major accomplishment.&160; I've been building applications all along with VS 2008 and there are some very cool features.&160; Some of my favorites include LINQ, XML Literals in VB.Net, and the advances in JavaScript development from intellisense to advanced debugging.&160; There a hundreds of cool things to find in the product. In addition to the product features, we.http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-r... |