A very concise method for building OpenCV 2.0 using Visual Studio 2008 is given here. One can follow the instructions blindly; however there is a problem building the highgui libraries. The error is as follows:
Compiling... ffopencv.cpp Linking... LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libgcc_.a'
Have posted to the developers as well as yahoo groups.. awaiting response. Will update as soon as i get some reply.