Overview
The Visual Studio Shell (isolated mode) provides a foundation on which you can build your own custom-branded tools environment that runs side by side with Visual Studio. By using the Visual Studio Shell (isolated mode), you can accelerate development by reusing the Visual Studio IDE in your application and focus on your core tooling problems.
This download contains the redistributable runtime binaries that you can distribute with your Visual Studio Shell (isolated mode) based application. For development and testing of your Visual Studio Shell (isolated mode) based application, please download the Visual Studio 2008 SDK.
For a general overview of the Visual Studio 2008 Shell, visit the Visual Studio 2008 Shell page.
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System requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Processor: 1.6GHz Pentium III+
- RAM: 384+ MB
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Instructions
- Click the Download button on this page to start the download
- To save the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save.
- To cancel the installation, click Cancel.
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