VS2008 was built on WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) long before WPF was cool. The IDE itself was a guinea pig for its own technology. You could feel it: the slight lag when dragging tool windows, the cinematic fade of the start page, the fact that you could use XAML to actually design a UI that didn't look like a spreadsheet from 1995. It was buggy. It was heavy. It was glorious.
: For the first time, unit testing—previously exclusive to high-end Team System editions—became an integral part of the Professional Edition, allowing developers to catch bugs earlier.
Includes Visual Basic 2008, Visual C# (C Sharp), Visual C++, and Visual J#. Framework Support: Built specifically to leverage .NET Framework 3.5
VS2008 was built on WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) long before WPF was cool. The IDE itself was a guinea pig for its own technology. You could feel it: the slight lag when dragging tool windows, the cinematic fade of the start page, the fact that you could use XAML to actually design a UI that didn't look like a spreadsheet from 1995. It was buggy. It was heavy. It was glorious.
: For the first time, unit testing—previously exclusive to high-end Team System editions—became an integral part of the Professional Edition, allowing developers to catch bugs earlier.
Includes Visual Basic 2008, Visual C# (C Sharp), Visual C++, and Visual J#. Framework Support: Built specifically to leverage .NET Framework 3.5