Visual Studio 2008 and its associated products/components will not be supported from April 10, 2018. The applications which are built on VS2008 will work but Microsoft
recommends to move the existing application to latest visual studio to get
ongoing support.
For the below products or components, Microsoft will no longer provide
updates, support or hot fixes which will end by next year.
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (All editions)
- Microsoft Visual C# 2008 (All editions)
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 (All editions)
- Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 (All editions)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 (All editions)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Explorer
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite
- Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Load Agent
- Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
To get continuous support, upgrade to latest visual studio from
VisualStudio.com