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The long awaited release of Visual Studio 2008 is now over. Earlier this morning I noticed that Microsoft updated the Visual Studio Express Edition web site with the final 2008 Express editions (rather than just beta 2). A few hours later, Scott Guthrie announced that they released golden master DVDs to manufacturing. If you are a MSDN subscriber, you can download VS 2008 from the MSDN subscription site immediately. Retail packages will take a few weeks to get out. Of course, the Express editions are free!

Visual Studio shipped the final release of service pack 1 today.

Among many of the bug-fixes and performance enhancements, the service pack fixed a pesky C++ bug which caused the linker to crash when compiling HouseBot.

A few words of warning about the service pack - it is huge - 431Mb compressed! It installed on my workstation in about an hour. However, it failed to install on my laptop after about an hour due to insufficient memory.