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Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 are now available for download. A new feature for C# developers called squiggles provides better error messages while you are typing your code. There are several important LINQ performance enhancements, including one that could yield a 30% speed increase in some common scenarios. There are also thousands of other bug fixes.

A general description of these releases is available here. It describes Visual Studio and .NET 3.5 changes such as:

  • Improvements to the WPF designers, and core WPF performance.
  • SQL 2008 support
  • Entity Framework support.

Download

A download page is available here, or you can just follow these links:

VS 2008 Service Pack 1:

VS 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1:

VS Team System 2008 Team Foundation SP 1:

.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1:

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Published Monday, August 11, 2008 11:03 AM by Charlie Calvert
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# Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

Monday, August 11, 2008 2:05 PM by DotNetKicks.com

# .NET 3.5 SP1 released

Theres just a ton of new features in SP1... so lets just jump to the links (from Charlies blog post )

Monday, August 11, 2008 2:53 PM by Lester's WPF blog

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Charlie, can't wait to read about the LINQ performance enhancements. Any chance there's information on the web on the subject already?

Thanks in advance!

Monday, August 11, 2008 6:10 PM by Anders Borum

# Novi SP za .NET Framework 3.5 i Visual Studio 2008

Novi SP za .NET Framework 3.5 i Visual Studio 2008

Monday, August 11, 2008 7:19 PM by Dragan Panjkov blog

# Released: .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

Microsoft has recently released an updated training kit with presentations, hands-on labs, demos and

Monday, August 11, 2008 7:26 PM by Charlie Calvert's Community Blog

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Excellent... I've been waiting a while for this to finally release... Thanks for all the quick links

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:57 AM by LINQ Master

# Detailed list of changes???

Where is a detailed list of changes such as listing new/changed .NET framework methods?

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:03 PM by Ted

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Anders,

Dinesh has outlined the performance improvements for LINQ. You can read his blog post here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dinesh.kulkarni/archive/2008/08/10/net-fx-3-5-sp1-two-perf-improvements-linq-to-objects-and-linq-to-sql.aspx

He's a little more careful than I am about describing the actual amount of improvement we will see, so I may tweak more words a bit just to play it safe. But there are definite improvements which yield positive results.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 4:40 PM by Charlie Calvert

# Where's the WPF WebBrowser control?

Just wondering where System.Windows.Controls.WegbBrowser is? A previous blog entry stated that it was going to be included with SP1, but, it appears to not be there.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 5:27 PM by jemiller

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Is any one else having problems loading workflow projects with SP1? I get an error saying "Project type not supported" even when trying to create a new workflow project.

Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:34 AM by Ross

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Does anyone know when/if this will hit WSUS?  The .NET Framework 3.5 itself still is not on WSUS.

Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:47 AM by Chris

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

I have my VS in a virtual machine with a 10gb disk, VS 2008 takes up about 1gb, why then, oh why, does the Sp1 updated want 6GB!!!!! to update my vs? which is more than half my disk space, and I just cant make that kinda space.. I have 50% free..

Friday, August 15, 2008 4:26 AM by Brit

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

The following program will run under 3.5, but fails with an exception on the second line after SP1 is installed:

class Program

{

   static void Main(string[] args)

   {

       int[] ints = { 1, 2, 3, 4 };

       string[] strings = ints.Cast<string>().ToArray();

   }

}

An InvalidCastException gets thrown from the generic Cast call.

Do we have an alternative method of casting the elements of an array?

Friday, August 15, 2008 7:18 AM by Richard Everett

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Folowing exception was thrown by many applications after installing SP1

"Cryptographic service provider (CSP) could not be found for this algorithm.". All applications works fine, before installing SP.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:04 AM by Eugene

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

The Cast operator was always intended to cast an untyped collection (i.e. IEnumerable) to a typed collection (i.e. IEnumerable<T>). The fact that it was also capable of executing type casts on elements was a mistake in the implementation. The correct way to perform a type cast on each element is to use the Select statement:

ints.Select(i => i.ToString())

Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:20 PM by David Nelson

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

I dunno, i guess this is still beta or preview version, or it might be the deployment team got wrong when they were packaging the installer, or it might be the tester team also forgot to test everything, or whatever things that makes me have to say that this is a nightmare release =))

Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:11 AM by Anonymous

# re: Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:12 AM by Anonymous

# Novi SP za .NET Framework 3.5 i Visual Studio 2008

Novi SP za .NET Framework 3.5 i Visual Studio 2008

Friday, November 28, 2008 10:15 AM by Dragan Panjkov blog

# C утра насыпало...

Для всехСкачать Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 ExpressДля подписчиков MSDN .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack...

Saturday, January 31, 2009 5:40 AM by Russian SQL Server Club

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