

IMPORTANT: Let’s make it clear, this is not warez or pirate software: what we’re giving here is merely a list of links to some official Microsoft distributions offline installers public links collected from Google, StackOverflow and some MS support sites & forums. For those who keep asking where they can download the ISO files of the older builds, we put together this far-from-complete list containing some of the most known official direct download links for the offline installers and/or ISO files, together with service packs and support files. Just wait and see the step-by-step, Visual Studio 2008 components being installed.Some weeks ago we published a rather comprehensive list of all Microsoft Visual Studio Build Numbers, Version IDs and Default Paths from VS6 to VS2017. Full installation required around 4.3 GB of space. In this case, select the Full and click the Install button. You can change the installation path and the required space for every installation type also displayed when we select it.

In this case we select the Full installation type and accept the default installation path given. In the installation type, as usual we have three choices: Default, Full or Custom.

Key in the Product key and accept the license terms. Any already installed components will also be mentioned. The setup wizard will list down all the required components need to be installed. Just wait for the wizard to load the installation components.Ĭlick the Next button to go to the next step. In the welcome setup wizard page you can enable the tick box to send your setup experience to Microsoft if you want. The setup wizard will start copying needed files into a temporary folder. Then click the Install Visual Studio 2008 link to start the installation. Click the View ReadMe button to read the readme information. Insert the DVD into the DVD drive, the Autorun will be executed, displaying the following Windows form. If you are student, then you can try downloading free versions for the Microsoft IDE products through the Community edition, however this opportunity currently is limited to several countries only.Īny pre requirement prior to the installation will be checked and verified by the setup wizard.

There is also a trial version for VS Professional Edition. You may want to try the ‘lite’ and free version of VS 2008, VS 2008 Express Editions. In this step-by-step tutorial we will install Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition on Windows XP Pro SP2. Steps on how-to install and use the Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition Part 1
