SQL Server 2008 RTM - First Experiences

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I installed SQL Server 2008 RTM Developer Edition this evening. First it installed .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, no problems. Then we went with the full install and I chose an Upgrade over SQL Server 2005. Everything went fine until the prerequisites check, and it reported FAIL on Visual Studio 2008 - saying that SP1 was required.

Well, I already went through this stuff with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta and it clobbered Silverlight.

So, when you guys solve this issue and provide a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 that preserves all my existing Silverlight 2 BETA 2 work and doesn't put me out of business - then I'll be happy to install SQL Server 2008. Meanwhile, I'm choosing the safe route, which is to keep my powder dry.

Be advised.

UPDATE (8/8/2008): 

According to Microsoft sources, VS 2008 SP1 will be accompanied by a new Silverlight Tools Beta 2 chainer.  The new chainer will have the patch for VS SP1 RTM, and SP1 beta will no longer be supported at that point.

The final Silverlight 2 release is still a ways off.  This is good news. 

NOTE: An interesting statistic: As of Aug 9th, Since August 1, 2008, NBCOlympics.com has accumulated more than 127 million page views, nearly half the total for the entire Athens Games. I bet that is one heck of a lot of Silverlight installations.

Peter has been active on the C# and other MS newsgroups, has had samples at gotdotnet.com (now codegallery.com) that have been downloaded over 56,000 times, and has written numerous articles for eggheadcafe.com, for which he is a co-founder, and MSDNAA sites. He has also been a technical reviewer on books from Prentice Hall, Manning and other publishers. Peter was a Microsoft MVP for 10 years. Peter was born and raised in New York City, and after a stint as a jazz musician playing contrabass with the Robert Hunt Trio, migrated to sunny Florida, where he was hired as a rookie Financial Consultant at Merrill Lynch in Orlando, specializing in Corporate Services. It was at Merrill that Peter realized computers and technology were his forte. He spent his last few years at Merrill developing real – time computerized trading and and stock charting program using advanced technical analysis indicators, some of which are his own inventions. In 1997, he moved on to architect and serve as lead developer on a number of innovative web-based and middleware solutions for the healthcare and financial services industry.

Comments

  1. Kevin1:34 PM

    Thanks Pete for the comment. I was going install 2008 when I returned from vacation...I will now have to double think that...

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  2. peterbromberg1:46 PM

    @kevin, Yep. I didn't mean it to sound negative even if it came out that way. It's just that I and many others had issues with Silverlight getting clobbered by the VS2008 SP1 Beta and now that SQL 2008 requires it, I found it particularly frustrating.

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  3. Kalle4:09 PM

    It requires VS 2008 SP1 *RTM* to be installed, since you cannot have both SP0 and SP1 installed side-by-side (and for instance Management Studio is based on the VS shell). It will be released in a few days. I've read Aug 11 somewhere. And needless to say, you can of course install SS 2008 on a server without VS 2008.

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  4. peterbromberg5:28 PM

    If as you say that VS2008 SP1 RTM will be out in a few days, that is excellent news.

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  5. Anonymous5:34 PM

    VS 2008 SP1 RTM on August 11th! What is the excellent about it ? It should released already since the only way to test your apps with SQL 2008 and VS 2008!

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  6. peterbromberg6:07 PM

    Yikes! Let's give them 3 days worth of slack!

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