Visual Studio 2008 [portable] Access

: Windows XP SP2+, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2003/2008. Processor : Minimum 1.6 GHz; 2.2 GHz+ recommended . RAM : 384 MB minimum; 1024 MB (1 GB) recommended .

“VS 2008 was the IDE where you could open a project from 2005, edit it with 2008’s better IntelliSense, and still deploy to Windows 2000. That kind of compatibility is rare today.” — Anonymous enterprise developer. visual studio 2008

It was the winter of 2007, and I was staring at a splintered mess of C++ code. My tool at the time, Visual Studio 2005, kept crashing when I tried to refactor a legacy module. My project lead, a pragmatic woman named Carol, walked over. "Microsoft just dropped the RTM," she said. "Visual Studio 2008. Install it tonight." : Windows XP SP2+, Windows Vista, or Windows