Now that VS 2008 has been released via MSDN, I'm attempting to see if our app compiles and works using it. Following the instructions here ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/27205/focus=27207 ) got boost compiled but the auto-link was still looking for vc80 in the library names. Adding the following to \boost\config\auto_link.hpp fixed the link issue #elif defined(BOOST_MSVC) && (BOOST_MSVC == 1400) // vc80: # define BOOST_LIB_TOOLSET "vc80" #elif defined(BOOST_MSVC) && (BOOST_MSVC >= 1500) // vc90: # define BOOST_LIB_TOOLSET "vc90" At this point everything appears to run. Is this the right way to start using boost in VS2008? At what point will boost 'properly' support VS2008? By properly I mean without me having to hack the boost src. Thanks- John