Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition is a comprehensive set of tools that accelerates the process of turning the developer’s vision into reality. Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition was engineered to support development projects that target the Web (including ASP.NET AJAX), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, SQL Server 2008, and Windows Mobile devices.

This Trial Edition is fully functional but will expire after 90 days. This trial software is not supported by Customer Services and Support (CSS)

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to January 2013.

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Supported operating systems: Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP

• In addition, Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition requires:
  
  
  
  • Computer with a 1.6 GHz or faster processor
  
  
  • 384 MB of RAM or more (768 MB of RAM or more for Windows Vista)
  
  
  • 2.2 GB of available hard-disk space
  
  
  • 5400 RPM hard drive
  
  
  • 1024 x 768 or higher-resolution display
  
  
  • DVD-ROM Drive
  
  
  • Additional features may require Internet access. Fees may apply.
  
  

Download instructions

1. Click on the image download available on this page and save to your hard drive in a temporary directory.

• Because this file is large, we recommend that you use a download manager to download it.
  
• If you do not have a download manager or are unsure, click here for a facilitated download.

2.Follow the ISO handling instructions below.

Following 2 options are available for DVD image handling.

1. Write the image file to blank DVD (Recommended)

2. Mount image file virtually as DVD devices.

For details of the options listed above, see "What are ISO image files and how do I use them?" topic available on this FAQ page.

1. On the DVD, locate Setup.exe and double click to initiate installation.

2. Follow the Setup Wizard instructions to completion.