>>>I don't know what happened, but there is no option to create VB or C# applications in my Visual Studio 2008 installation on my Vista Laptop. In other words, I can't create VB or C# applications. There are only two options:
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>>>Business Intelligence Projects
>>>Other Project Types
>>>
>>>Now, I may have installed VS 2010 Beta 2 before VS 2008, so maybe that's an issue.
>>>
>>>Anyone have this happen to their installation?
>>>
>>>Cecil
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>>Nope, but given your experience I would not try to install VS Beta now.
>
>Why not ?

1st of all he should be using something considered stable to learn on.

2nd almost all learning materials are based on VS2008.

3rd if he wants to do any work for a customer, he is not supposed to be using a beta development tool.