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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Matt Manela's Blog : CLR</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/matt/archive/tags/CLR/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: CLR</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5  WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/matt/archive/2007/11/19/visual-studio-2008-and-net-3-5-woooooo.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:45:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6420564</guid><dc:creator>MattManela</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/matt/comments/6420564.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/matt/commentrss.aspx?PostID=6420564</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;I am sure they will be many blogs and articles that will mention the awesome fact that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 have been released.&amp;nbsp; I am also sure most of these posts will go talk about some of the many&amp;nbsp;cool new features in both.&amp;nbsp; While that is very tempting for me to do I restrain myself.&amp;nbsp; Instead I will doing something which you may find even more useful....&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I will give you links to go download and play with it!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The new .NET framework can be downloaded for free from here:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&amp;amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank"&gt;Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;And Visual Studio Express editions can be downloaded for free from here:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/default.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The express editions are free version of the IDE which focus on one technology like C#, ASP .NET or VB.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you are interested in trying the full edition you can download a trial of it here:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;Visual Studio 2008 Trial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I guarantee if you start to play with these you will fall in love and find eternal happiness.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Well, maybe that is a bit of a hyperbole but it is really cool.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=6420564" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/matt/archive/tags/C_2300_/default.aspx">C#</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/matt/archive/tags/CLR/default.aspx">CLR</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/matt/archive/tags/Visual+Studio/default.aspx">Visual Studio</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/matt/archive/tags/Programming/default.aspx">Programming</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/matt/archive/tags/Windows/default.aspx">Windows</category></item></channel></rss>