Visual Studio 2008 Installation Experience

The installation experience of Visual Studio 2008 is good. It’s pretty smooth. I choose to install all the options. It took 4.3 GB and 75 minutes to install the whole stuff excluding MSDN in my system [Pentium M 1.7 GHz with 1GB ram].

The installer didn’t ask me to restart the system in the middle. That’s one good thing. I hate re starting a system while installing software. But I had to restart the system at the end.

After installation I tried creating a Hello World web site, and it worked flawlessly. Thanks a lot for Brad [IndyNDA.org] and Microsoft for this awesome Christmas gift :-D.

Indy Vs 2008 Install Fest

WOW I can’t believe it !!!. I am installing Visual studio 2008 Professional right now!!! I was expecting to start after 6:00 PM today. Good for me ;-)

I came to the Gene B. Glick at 5:00pm thinking that I would be the first person. But there were a lot of people waiting there to my surprise!!!. The event organization is so good; I got into the conference room immediately.

Lets see how the day turns out to be.

Microsoft Architecture Journal Reader

Came across the new "Architecture Journal Reader" from microsoft.

This a nice offline reader for the architecture journal. The content downloaded is available offline and also searchable.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dd466bbb-1b7d-438e-9f9a-954ce2058f15&DisplayLang=en

Visual Studio 2008 Install-Fest

Wow i am going to the VS 2008 Install-Fest on Dec. 13th in Indianapolis, Courtesy of Indy .NET User group. Hope I get a free copy of VS 2008.

IndyNDA [indynda.org] has restricted the number of free VS 2008 distributed to 175. I don’t see this kind of restriction in any other Install-Fest held around the country.

Also I don’t understand why Indy developers have this restriction while others around the country enjoy a free copy if they attend install-fest. Are Indy .NET developers being discriminated?