Not too long before Christmas Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008, this new release is packed with many new features allowing for developers to create applications that will run on many different platforms such as:

• The Web
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2008
• Microsoft Office 2007

The new release caters for novice users to high end professionals, allowing for simple applications to be built and also highly complex next generation applications which are constantly being worked on by Microsoft developers and advanced programmers. Packed with new features Visual Studio 2008 now has more ways than ever before to allow users capture ideas and turn them into real life applications.

As a student and as a hobbyist I have found Visual Studio 2008 to be very easy to use. Quicker and easier than ever I can find my way around tools and features and when I get stuck, help is just a click away, the inbuilt help features always point me in the right direction where I am greeted by online tutorials and videos which have always helped me get the results I want.