Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional

While the "Professional" edition was aimed at individual developers and small teams (as opposed to the massive Team System edition), it packed a punch. Here are the standout features that made this version a workhorse.

TFS 2008 was designed to work with Visual Studio 2008, offering: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional

The system requirements for Visual Studio 2008 Professional were fairly robust, reflecting the resource-intensive nature of the IDE: While the "Professional" edition was aimed at individual

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building .NET Framework 2.0–3.5 applications (Windows Forms, ASP.NET, WPF, WCF), native C++ apps, and web services. Key features include multi-targeting, improved IDE performance, IntelliSense, and integrated debugging. native C++ apps