>>>>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
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>>>>Now, I may have installed VS 2010 Beta 2 before VS 2008, so maybe that's an issue.
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>>>>Anyone have this happen to their installation?
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>>>>Cecil
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>>>Nope, but given your experience I would not try to install VS Beta now.
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>>Why not ?
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>1st of all he should be using something considered stable to learn on.
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>2nd almost all learning materials are based on VS2008.
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>3rd if he wants to do any work for a customer, he is not supposed to be using a beta development tool.


I was considering re-learning when vs 2010 came out. I understand #3, but if it's only learning I think vs2010 is an improvement over 2008