Microsoft Home Page

Sign in

Select the product you need help with

Visual Studio 2008 Solution Center

Help and support for Visual Studio 2008. Links to customer service, technical solutions, and answers to top issues.

Get Visual Studio 2010 Now

MSDN subscribers can download from the the MSDN Subscriber Download site. To subscribe to MSDN please visit MSDN Subscriptions. You may also purchase Visual Studio 2010 from a reseller or download the full trial version.

Top issues

Error message when you click "Calculate Permissions" for a Visual Studio 2008 ClickOnce application: "Calculating permissions failed"
Error message when you try to deploy a Visual Studio 2008 ClickOnce application: “The components for communicating with FrontPage Server Extensions are not installed”
Error message when you compile a WPF application in Visual Basic 2008: "Option Strict On disallows implicit conversions"
Visual Studio 2008 may stop working when you use the Windows Presentation Foundation Designer in Windows Vista
Lines of code may be missing if you compile a solution that has a complex project structure in Visual Studio 2008
A smart device application cannot be started on an emulator or on a mobile device if you develop the application on a computer that has Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 installed
You may experience performance issues in the IDE after you use Visual Studio 2008 to build a Visual Basic project
Error message when you try to open the MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005: "Missing shortcut"

Get Help Now

Contact a support professional by E-mail, Online, or Phone

Last Review : March 15, 2013