Control Toolbox is Empty: We've seen
several people run into a situation where when they create a new ASP.NET
Web-site or Web-application with VS 2008 they find that the Control
Toolbox is empty, and no intellisense is provided in source-view. This
problem indicates that the .NET 3.5 version of System.Web.dll did not get
installed correctly due to interference with some of the .NET Framework
Hotfixes already on the machine. This blog post describes how to fix this issue.
JavaScript Intellisense and Colorization
Not Enabled: We've seen some people run into a situation where
JavaScript code colorization and intellisense isn't enabled due to a registry
setting not getting configured correctly during setup. This blog post describes how to fix this issue.
Setup Asks for Windows XP SP2 on Windows
Vista: We've seen a few people run into issues on Windows Vista where
either VS 2008 or .NET Framework 3.5 Beta2 prompts users with an error message
asking them to install Windows XP SP2 (even though they are running Vista!). This blog post describes how to work around this issue.
DevEnv /resetsettings: If you have
ever installed a previous version of "Orcas" or VS 2008 on your
machine (either Beta1 or one of the CTP versions), you need to reset your VS
2008 settings after installing Beta2. If you don't do this, you'll have
an odd set of settings configured (some windows will be in the wrong place),
and you'll potentially see some IDE performance slowness. You can reset
your settings by typing "DevEnv /resetsettings" on the command-line
against the VS 2008 version of the IDE. I cover how to-do this in my Beta 2 Release Blog Post.
.NET 3.5 Web Sites and LINQ to SQL in
Partial Trust: The default trust policy for the LINQ and LINQ to SQL
assemblies, as well as the web.config file for .NET 3.5 ASP.NET web-sites do
not allow applications to be run in medium trust environments. This can
impact you if you deploy your application to a remote hoster. This blog post describes how to enable this in Beta2 (you
won't need to take these steps for the final release).