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Visual Studio 2008
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2008
Visual Studio 2008, and Visual Studio Team System 2008 codenamed Orcas (a reference to Orcas Island, also an island in the Salish Sea, like Whidbey for the previous 2005 release), were released to MSDN subscribers on November 19, 2007, alongside .NET Framework 3.5. The source code for the Visual Studio 2008 IDE is available under a shared source license to some of Microsoft's partners and ISVs. Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 on August 11, 2008. The internal version number of Visual Studio 2008 is version 9.0 while the file format version is 10.0. Visual Studio 2008 requires Windows XP Service Pack 2 plus Windows Installer 3.1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or later. It is the last version available for Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, as well as the only version to support Windows Vista before SP2 and Windows Server 2008 before SP2 and the last version to support targeting Windows 2000 for C++ applications.