>>>All VS versions from 2003 onwards are on MSDN subscriber downloads.....
>>>Not sure why anyone who has not already got them would want pre-2012 anyway ?
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>>I don't use 2010 because it's buggy in C++ code generation in V10.
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>Interesting. Out of curiosity what problems did you find in 2010 that were not present in 2008 ?
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>> And I don't use 2012 because it's Metroesque.

If find the IDE for VS2010 and VS2012 very confusing. I probably should devote more time to learning it, but I waste a lot of time trying to find the solution explorer when it disappears and CTL-F dialogue is even more evasive.