Today, Visual Studio 2008 has launched to market. There are many feature added to the IDE like WPF, WCF, WF (3 pillars can be used in VS 2005), LinQ, Javascript debugger, and many others. It needs more hardware power to develop it.
Real hardware requirement (in my case):
- minimum Intel Pentium D 3 Ghz or Dual Core 3.0 or Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz
- minimum RAM 2 GB ( I already try VS 2008 Beta2 on 1 GB runs slower)
- minimum harddisk 160 GB (It is difficult to get 80 GB in my city now)
- minimum VGA NVIDIA 7300 with 256 MB (I use NVIDIA 7300 GT 512 MB with Vista graphics index of 4.7)
- minimum resolution is 1280 x 1024. Working areas are smaller in 1024 x 768. (I use 1600 x 1200 with High DPI 120 dpi)
Real software requirement (in my case)
- minimum windows vista business
- minimum office 2003 (Excel 2007 still error on calculation)
- I use subversion as source control
- latest windows SDK (until today I only have SDK version 6.0.xxx; still wait the SDK latest version)
- free Paint.NET to draw or manipulate picture
- Sql Server 2005 Express Edition with SP2 (download)
- Supported MySQL to Vista with OleDB/ODBC driver installed, Administrator and Query browser required
- IBM DB2 Express C, free version of DB2 that support on Visual Studio 2005 (hope they launch for Visual Studio 2008 soon)
- Oracle DB 11g
- Antivirus software either is paid like symantec or free like AVG
So I installed the computer clean with Vista. After that I ghost the partition as a backup and then install the application. When installation all application has finished, I ghost again the installation.
