Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it continues in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. To enable evaluation of Visual Studio 2008, this page provides links to trial editions of Visual Studio 2008. For more information, see Visual Studio 2008 Product Information.
Current MSDN Professional and Premium Subscribers can download Visual Studio 2008 from MSDN Subscriber Downloads.
When you're ready to upgrade from an installed trial edition of Visual Studio or Team Foundation Server (or the Workgroup Edition of Team Foundation Server), you don't have to completely uninstall and reinstall those products.
For more information, see:
Jump-start your Visual Studio 2008 trial experience by downloading a virtual machine with Visual Studio 2008 already installed for you. For more information, see Try Visual Studio Team System 2008 - Virtual Machines.
To use these virtual machines, you must have either Virtual PC 2007 or Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
In addition, you can download the following:
Develop quality code faster and defy all challenges from the UI to the database. Check out the offer, demos, white papers and download the trial.