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</description></item><item><title>VS2008 SP1 and .NET FX Beta Performance Improvements</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495293</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:58:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495293</guid><dc:creator>(Semi) Official Developer Division Performance Engineering blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;You probably already saw Soma’s Blog on the Beta for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 . If you&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>VS2008 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta now available</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495381</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:09:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495381</guid><dc:creator>Joteke's Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;See: &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.asp"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495408</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:16:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495408</guid><dc:creator>DotNetKicks.com</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 Beta Download</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495455</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:24:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495455</guid><dc:creator>JohnPapa.net</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Soma announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloaded . This includes several updates, includes support for SQL Server 2008, and has a few new products including the Entity Framework, LINQ to Entities&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 Beta Download</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495490</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:29:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495490</guid><dc:creator>John Papa [MVP C#]</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Soma announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloaded&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495521</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:34:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495521</guid><dc:creator>Satheesh</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Cool news! Thanks for the info!&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta Now Available</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495564</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:39:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495564</guid><dc:creator>hacked.brain</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta Now Available&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>FullTrust on the LocalIntranet</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495624</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:49:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495624</guid><dc:creator>.NET Security Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;We released the first beta of .NET 3.5 SP 1 this morning, and it includes a change to the default grant&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Changes for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495652</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 20:53:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495652</guid><dc:creator>Heath Stewart's Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Beta) has been released to web , along with Microsoft .NET&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 Beta Download</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495731</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:04:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495731</guid><dc:creator>Community Blogs</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Soma announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloaded&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8495934</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:37:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495934</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I noticed .NET 3.5 SP1 also contains SP2 for .NET 2.0/3.0. What? SP2 already? Wasn't SP1 delivered in last November? It's hardly 6 months and a new service pack!! I can understand about .NET 3.5 and VS2008 needing an SP1. And still large number of customers have .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 installed and yet no service pack for them? Is there any balance going on here? There are approximately 150 hotfixes after .NET 1.1 Service Pack 1. And there may be hardly 10-15 hotfixes in .NET 2.0/3.0 SP2!!! Please produce a final .NET 1.1 SP2 before it enters extended support from mainstream support. Doesn't Microsoft do any customer userbase surveys? Lots of shops are still on .NET 1.1.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, I noticed the Express editions with SP1 have web-based setup. I hope at RTM of SP1, there'l be a full Express SP1 ISO.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8496049</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:54:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8496049</guid><dc:creator>ASPInsiders</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Read the whole thing here : Today we released a Beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Beta of SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8496067</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:56:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8496067</guid><dc:creator>Erics Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Read more at Somasegar's blog here .&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Not just a service pack (VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1)</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8496141</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 22:05:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8496141</guid><dc:creator>WF Community Bloggers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Microsoft has rolled out the beta of SP1 for .NET Framework version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Now don't&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>ThreadPool changes in .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8496394</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 22:44:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8496394</guid><dc:creator>Eric Eilebrecht's blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;SP1 of .NET 3.5 is now available as a Beta release. This beta release has the fix for the ThreadPool&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8496438</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 22:51:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8496438</guid><dc:creator>Maarten Van Stam</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;It was originally planned for last friday, but to hold back the pressure for the support team to enjoy&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8496557</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 23:13:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8496557</guid><dc:creator>johnmont</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;@anonymous&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the case of the Express SKUs, at SP1 ship we will absolutely have the full SP1 ISO image as we have today for VS 2008 RTM. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;John&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GPM, VS Express&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta 1 Released</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8496643</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 23:30:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8496643</guid><dc:creator>Bryant Likes's Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Ok, I'm not totally sure why all my posts lately have had a slightly negative tone to them, perhaps I'm&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8497217</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 01:03:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8497217</guid><dc:creator>{ The Smoking Code }</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8497270</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 01:16:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8497270</guid><dc:creator>Mighell's Mobile Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Rilasciata aggi: Today we released a Beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta.</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8497513</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 02:11:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8497513</guid><dc:creator>Al Pascual</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Finally Scott Guthrie released the news, was waiting to post my review. Friday night I installed Visual&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 - Go Get It</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8497580</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 02:27:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8497580</guid><dc:creator>Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I am not going to even bother talking about what is in it, I am reading it like everyone else! But go&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>VS 2008 and .Net 3.5 SP1 Beta</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8497814</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 03:29:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8497814</guid><dc:creator>Redwerb</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If you haven&amp;amp;#39;t heard the news yet, Microsoft has released a beta of a service pack (SP1) for Visual&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio SP1 Beta Feedback</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8498127</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 04:44:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8498127</guid><dc:creator>Developer Community Product Feedback</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Visual Studio SP1 beta is available for Download, it includes hundreds of bug fixes and customer-reported&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8499238</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:08:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8499238</guid><dc:creator>Yonatan Leonov</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Would you please release a detailed document about .NET 2.0 SP 2 ?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You have just written it exist as oart of this .NET 3.5 SP1, but haven't told anything about it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Will it be available as a standalone download? does it includes red bits?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See my blog to understand why it is so important to have this info: &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://readcommit.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-net-framework-20-service-pack.html"&gt;http://readcommit.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-net-framework-20-service-pack.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta </title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8499470</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 11:23:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8499470</guid><dc:creator>Zuker On Foundations</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Service Pack 1 is here, yippy. Obviously, this is a Beta release, thus you might want to install it on&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>VS 2008 Sp1 Beta Links</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8499832</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:54:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8499832</guid><dc:creator>Mike Taulty's Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Just links.... ScottGu Soma Entity Framework Data Services Download&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8501416</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:48:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8501416</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;What is new in Express SP1? Silverlight support in VWD? TR-1 in C++ Express?&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8501457</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8501457</guid><dc:creator>Leon</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Okay...i am confused...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With this release is there support 64bit support?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some say that there is some say that it is for a different release...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;thanks&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8504382</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 22:56:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8504382</guid><dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;When will Sync framework RTM? It's been in beta for so long.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>.net 3.5 SP1 beta and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta are here</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8507078</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:28:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8507078</guid><dc:creator>Zunanji viri</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;There are various enhancements and even changes in SP1 . Perhaps one of the most interesting is the change&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8515404</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 01:18:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8515404</guid><dc:creator>Larry Sullivan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;The following question was raised about .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and its constituent parts –&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“I noticed .NET 3.5 SP1 also contains SP2 for .NET 2.0/3.0. What? SP2 already? Wasn't SP1 delivered in last November? It's hardly 6 months and a new service pack!! I can understand about .NET 3.5 and VS2008 needing an SP1. And still large number of customers have .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 installed and yet no service pack for them? Is there any balance going on here? There are approximately 150 hotfixes after .NET 1.1 Service Pack 1. And there may be hardly 10-15 hotfixes in .NET 2.0/3.0 SP2!!! Please produce a final .NET 1.1 SP2 before it enters extended support from mainstream support. Doesn't Microsoft do any customer userbase surveys? Lots of shops are still on .NET 1.1” &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a great question and I wanted to reply. &amp;nbsp;First we absolutely realized that there are a number of customers still on .Net Framework 1.1 and we will look into the possibility of servicing it again. &amp;nbsp;I can tell you that the servicing requests on 1.1 are very low and the volume of servicing requests is a big part of what plays into the timing and need for an SP. &amp;nbsp;Which of course leads into your questions of why we are updating the 2.0 bits again which comes down to the fact that to provide a service pack of .Net Framework 3.5 it was necessary to provide fixes in the lower level core parts of the .Net Framework. &amp;nbsp;Given that we needed to update a number of binaries to deliver the 3.5 SP1 we made the decision to go ahead and allow an additional set of fixes into the 2.0 and 3.0 layers. &amp;nbsp; This is a byproduct of the fact that the current set of .Net Framework versions are much like a layer cake with .Net Framework 2.0 at the bottom, then .Net Framework 3.0 and finally the .Net Framework 3.5 layered on top. &amp;nbsp;Each of the upper layers has dependencies into lower layers, but not vice versa. &amp;nbsp;In other words 3.5 can depend on 3.0 and/or 2.0, but 2.0 has no dependencies on 3.0 or 3.5. &amp;nbsp;As you can see this means that some fixes or features in the 3.5 can require updates in their dependant layer to function properly. &amp;nbsp;Also, with the introduction of 3.5 we now allow for the SPs of the .Net Framework to install on both machines with predecessor version or no version at all. &amp;nbsp;This allows customers to not have to deploy two items, the RTM version and its SP, but only the SP.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Larry Sullivan&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Group Manager&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework SP1 Beta</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8524158</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 21:22:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8524158</guid><dc:creator>ASP.NET Debugging</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Just in case anyone hasn't heard yet, we have released a beta of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>.NET Framework Client Profile [Justin Van Patten]</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8529609</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 23:42:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8529609</guid><dc:creator>BCL Team Blog</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Last week Soma and Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Tool: Editing File Associations for ClickOnce Applications</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8564362</link><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8564362</guid><dc:creator>Re-inventing The Wheel</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I apologize for taking so long between posts. I have an excuse: very busy working on Visual Studio 2008&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#8642616</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:59:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8642616</guid><dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Will we ever see the return of the easy-to-use Component Gallery functionality available with VC6 which has now been totally forgotten by anyone who only started using Visual Studio from 2002 onwards?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Take it from someone who has been programming for over 20 years on various platforms and has used the Component Gallery regularly that it is badly missed. &amp;nbsp; There is no other way to simply create a .ogx file in package 1 and insert it into package 2. &amp;nbsp; Any advice now given is slow and prone to errors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please bring it back!!!&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta </title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx#9320837</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:47:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9320837</guid><dc:creator>Zuker On Foundations</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Service Pack 1 is here, yippy. Obviously, this is a Beta release, thus you might want to install it on&lt;/p&gt;
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