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I wrote previously about fixes that are available for three issues that can occur when you install SP1 for .NET Framework 3.5. In addition to those three CLR issues, there were some other problems caused by the service pack which is why we also released
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As mentioned yesterday .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 were released. Here is a more extensive set of links that may be useful: Soma's announcement mail with some brief details of the release Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack
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A while a go when I posted about the .NET Framework 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 being available for download, Kima posed an interesting question in the comments. Kima asked whether the new enforcement of NX compatability by the C# compiler after the application of
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My colleague Phil brought to my attention yet another release following on from the release of Visual Studio 2008 earlier this week. The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 allows developers to build extensions to the Visual Studio 2008 development environment
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An interesting point about the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is that it is both a service pack AND a full install. By that I mean if you already have .NET 2.0 installed then it gets updated. If you haven't, it doesn't matter, it gets installed anyway. The "service
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Following the earlier news about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipping, various .NET Framework updates and releases are now available for download: .NET Framework 3.5 (available as a web install or a downloadable full package ) .NET Framework
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Looks like we may all be needing that training kit I blogged about earlier . Soma has just announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! I think we can expect lots more download links to go live in the coming hours and days and plenty
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Today we have released the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit This 123Mb download is packed with 28 PowerPoint presentations, 20 demos and 20 labs. Good stuff DPE team! Cheers Doug
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[update 15/11/7 to add JScript syntax checking, JSON-Enabled WCF, MFC Vista Common Controls links] Here's a roundup of some links to great blogs and articles about the new stuff coming soon in "Orcas". You'll notice that the links are dominated by the
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In version 7 of IIS a powerful new API for administering the server from managed code is exposed in the Microsoft.Web.Administration namespace. Carlos has a cool blog post showing how to combine this with the Linq features of the upcoming .NET 3.5 release
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Developers interested in preparing for IIS7 and Orcas will be interested to know that the Release Candidate (RC) build of Windows Server 2008 is now available . Of course, this release includes an updated version of the .NET Framework 3.5. The core 2.0
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Let's be clear from the start, if you read the readme.htm (which I did, uncharacteristically) for Orcas Beta 2 it does not list Windows Server 2008 as a currently supported operating system so I can't blame anyone else for my pain.... So despite the warning
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I ran into a minor problem with an existing web site I have which was running Orcas Beta1 after I upgraded to Beta2. It's a content rich site so I spend quite a lot of time just editing pages in between doing actual builds and while editing I kept seeing
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Disgraceful! No, not disgraceful that Orcas Beta 2 has arrived but that I haven't blogged anything since 25th of May. And now it is 27th July! In my defense it has been a busy old couple of months. Although a lot of our customers start to go on holiday
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