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Topic: Visual Studio 2008 Standard

Posted By: RCorr
Subject: Visual Studio 2008 Standard
Date Posted: 22 May 2008 at 7:14pm

Hello,

My work was given a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Standard edition from one of our partners. I am a novice to this application. Therefore I am going through some online tutorials to get myself familiar with it.

After going through some tutorials this is what I know about the application to date:

* some of the projects you can create are windows applications and Server controls

I also came across a tutorial for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition. Even though the two have similar interfaces, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition allows users to create web sites.

I would like to know if one can create web sites using Visual Studio 2008 Standard edition. I haven't come across anything yet.

Maybe I have stumbled upon an entirely different application for entirely different version and building/maintaining web sites is not an option in Visual Studio 2008 Standard edition.

Do I have this right? A clarification would be appreciated.

RCorr

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 2:30am

Yes you can. Click on File>New Project for Windows Apps etc and on File>New Website for a website

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Posted By: jamie.townsend
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 2:18pm

I will be migrating to 2008 soon as the action pack has been sat in the cuboard for awhile waiting to be installed.

Let me know how you get on RCorr

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 2:24pm

Is Visual Studio 2008 included with the Action Pack?

I thought you only got Visual Studio 2008 with the more expensive MSDN subscription and you only got sent the free Express Edition with the Action Pack subscription.

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Posted By: jamie.townsend
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 2:46pm

Good point !!

I just had a quick look and couldn't even find the free 2008 version.
The only reason I mentioned it was because my boss said we had it previously so I just assumed it was with the action pack.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 3:00pm

The action pack is more designed for business that sale MS software. It's the MSDN subscription that's aimed at developers but costs 4 to 5 times as much as the Action Pack subscription.

As my company already pay Microsoft around £5,000 a year for their overly expensive Service Providers Licensing as well as the Action Pack Subscription I refuse to pay them even more money by subscribing to MSDN, which I believe is currently around £1,000 a year. Obviously as with all other of Microsoft's software if you are in the US you would get this around 40% less!!

Which brings me to another point, if we have to pay more in the UK for Microsoft licensing because they claim they need to produce special versions for Europe then how come all their software tries to install with the US default. If we have to pay more then shouldn't they supply a UK installation disk!

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Posted By: RCorr
Date Posted: 23 May 2008 at 3:06pm

Michael,

My query sounds so simple..yet I still can't seem to find the option to create a web site in Visual Studio 2008. Below are screen shots of the options available to me.

The options for Visual C# and C are the same as Visual Basic. As you see there "New web site" option doesn't exist for me. I could try reinstalling Visual Studio....

Cheers,

RCorr

Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 24 May 2008 at 6:47am

RCorr,

It's File -> New Website (not New Project)

Now Select: ASP.NET website

Now you should see something like this:

Hope that helps!

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Posted By: RCorr
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 2:28pm

iSec,

Clearly from my screen shots, "New web site..." is not an option. I am going to try and reinstall the software to resolve the issue I am experiencing.

Thanks,

RCorr

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 27 May 2008 at 7:34pm

It is an install option to add web development if I remember correctly.... Just do an "add components" via A/R Programs

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Posted By: RCorr
Date Posted: 03 June 2008 at 2:41pm

Michael,

Yes, that was it. I now can create a web site using Visual Studio.

Posted By: jamie.townsend
Date Posted: 18 June 2008 at 10:21am

WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

The action pack is more designed for business that sale MS software. It's the MSDN subscription that's aimed at developers but costs 4 to 5 times as much as the Action Pack subscription.

As my company already pay Microsoft around £5,000 a year for their overly expensive Service Providers Licensing as well as the Action Pack Subscription I refuse to pay them even more money by subscribing to MSDN, which I believe is currently around £1,000 a year. Obviously as with all other of Microsoft's software if you are in the US you would get this around 40% less!!

Which brings me to another point, if we have to pay more in the UK for Microsoft licensing because they claim they need to produce special versions for Europe then how come all their software tries to install with the US default. If we have to pay more then shouldn't they supply a UK installation disk!

Hey Bruce,

Not sure if you received it as well but we received an action pack update kit which includes Visual studio 2008 - the pack is called "Microsoft web solutions toolkit"

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 18 June 2008 at 11:11am

MS only included the free Express Edition with what I got.

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Posted By: jamie.townsend
Date Posted: 18 June 2008 at 11:17am

Me too, but like I said I received a folder through the post called "Microsoft web solutions toolkit" and it had VS 2008 standard and a few other CD's which are:

1: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard edition
2: Web design & development content DVD
3: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 - Partner resource
4: Microsoft Expression Studio 2

Seems like you can order this free kit here (https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/40047166)
More info (https://partner.microsoft.com/40029569?msp_id=websolutions)

Just thought you'd like to know.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 11:02am

Talk about jumping through hoops, finally after spending hours on MS's partner website I phoned them up and the web solution toolkit is now on order Approve

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Posted By: jamie.townsend
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 11:09am

hehe, glad you finally got it coming.

The hours of trying to get it is better than the price for MSDN :D

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 12:22pm

Thanks Jamie, just have to wait for it to be delivered now.

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Posted By: emily12
Date Posted: 09 August 2008 at 9:58am