It's supposed to install automatically, but so far I've installed on two different PCs and each one VS install hung when it got to the 3.5 Framework. I had to kill the setup process, reboot, and install the framework separate, then rerun the VS install.

>When you install VS2008, does it automatically install .Net Framework 3.5 at the same time? or do you have to do that separately?
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>>VS 2008, codenamed Orcas, was released this morning by Microsoft. MSDN Subscribers, download the bits while they're fresh.