Visual Studio 2008 Info

for "next generation" applications, and VB developers gained powerful tools like XML Literals. End of an Era

For the first time, you could open a project in VS 2008 but choose to target .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5. This meant teams could upgrade their IDE without being forced to upgrade their production runtime. Many companies stayed on .NET 2.0 for years but used the superior VS 2008 editor and debugger. visual studio 2008

XML literals, in particular, made VB 9.0 incredibly powerful for services and configuration manipulation, and it remains an underappreciated feature to this day. for "next generation" applications, and VB developers gained

Microsoft released for Visual Studio 2008 in August 2008, which added: for "next generation" applications