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Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 has been released!

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The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 has been released! Woo hoo!!!

We've been spending a lot of time the last few months getting this out the door so we're all pretty excited about this release.

The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 compliments the Service Pack 1 release of Visual Studio 2008. The SDK contains several new features such as:

· Significant size reduction for Visual Studio Shell redistributable packages. The Visual Studio Shell Isolated and Visual Studio Shell Integrated redistributables are now approximately 150 megabytes smaller. The redistributables no longer carry the full .NET Framework 3.5 payload. However, they contain a bootstrapper that automatically downloads the .NET Framework 3.5 runtime if it is not installed on the target computer.

· Support for progress feedback in a chained installation. The Visual Studio Shell Isolated and Visual Studio Shell Integrated redistributables can now pass installation progress back to the chaining process. This lets developers display accurate progress in their setup programs.

· Visual Studio Shell development now supports normal user. Developing and deploying a Visual Studio Shell application no longer requires the developer to be an administrator on a Windows XP computer or to have elevated privileges on a Windows Vista computer.

· DSL Print Preview. The ability to preview a DSL before printing has been added to the DSL designer.

· New XML Tree Editor sample. The SQL Server team has provided a new XML Tree Editor sample. The earlier sample has been removed.

· New TFS Samples.   Two new TFS samples have been added.

o VSExtensibilitySample

o This new TFS sample provides an example of creating a Visual Studio add-in that interacts with the Version Control user interface of Team Explorer. The sample comes with a detailed Word doc that provides insight into the requirements of such an add-in.

o RichClientCustomControl

o This new TFS sample provides an example of creating Work Item Tracking custom controls that work within Team Explorer. The sample comes with a detailed Word doc that provides insight into the requirements of custom controls as well as a separate document that describes how to write custom controls that can be used within the Team Server Web Access environment .

· Updated Shell documentation. Documentation about the Shell has been added.

In order to use the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1, you will need to install Visual Studio Service Pack 1. The Visual Studio Service Pack is available here.

Once you have Service Pack 1 installed, you can download the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 from here.

If you run into any issues, check out our online readme here.

Please download the SDK and try it out. 

Also, if you haven't already, sign up for our Dev conference coming up in September!

-Quan

Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2008
    The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 just released! I have the honor of posting the bits online, sending the

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2008
    Finally after the official release of .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, a few

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2008
    Cette nouvelle version met à jour le SDK par rapport au dernier Service Pack 1 de Visual Studio: Pour

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2008
    I try avoid rehashing other news that will be heavily touted but I am excited by this and don't think

  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2008
    My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. The Web Developer Tools Team announced the release of the Dynamic Data Wizard Preview 0806 for VS 2008 SP1 . US ISV Developer Evangelism

  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2008
    The link to the SDK and the VS SP1 is the same, please correct the link for the SDK.

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2008
    Earlier this week, we released the Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 . This is the SDK which is compatible with

  • Anonymous
    August 23, 2008
    On August 12 th I missed VS 2008 SDK v1.1. James Lau promised it for the next week, and on the 21 st

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2008
    Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1

  • Anonymous
    August 26, 2008
    The link here for the dev conference is broken: http://msdn.com/conference.