Visual Studio 2008 , The new generation Microsoft development tools for Vista application, Office 2007 system, and the Web. Beside that, Microsoft unveiled visual studio 2008 Beta 2 software for public download under their CTP program and allows developers  using Visual studio 2008 to develop web rich application with other Microsoft product like silverlight and Expression design.

As Visual studio 2008 Beta 2 release has cater most of latest Visual Studio product line and  can be say is 99 percent of Visual studio 2008.  So, You can start downloading visual studio 2008 at MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Meanwhile, there are a lot of Visual studio 2008 edition and MSDN library can been download on ISO image. Just choose your preferable edition and install it.

List of Visual Studio 2008 edition can been download:

* Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition Beta 2
* Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Beta 2
* Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Team Suite Beta 2
* Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Team Foundation Server Beta 2
* Visual Studio Team System 2008 – Test Load Agent Beta 2
* MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

Here is some requirement for Visual Studio installation :-

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP

• Processor: 1.6GHz Pentium III+
• RAM: 1 GB of available physical RAM

Meanwhile, Visual Studio 2008 express edition ( a lightweight version ) is introduce also which is more easy to use and learn up for novice user and new learner compare to full visual studio 2008 edition.

* Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions Beta 2