Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework SP1 Beta

Just in case anyone hasn't heard yet, we have released a beta of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. This was announced by Soma here.

There are many new things coming in this Service Pack that Soma goes into describing. They include:

Various fixes to issues found by Microsoft and our Customers
Support for the ADO.NET Entity Framework and SQL Server 2008
Improved performance in Visual Studio
Team System improvements
Improved graphics features in .NET 3.5
More .NET 3.5 controls
Improved start-up performance for .NET 3.5
.NET Framework Client Profile
Dynamic Data

You can download the Beta from here.

Published 20 May 08 02:22 by Tom

Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio

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# DotNetKicks.com said on May 20, 2008 2:23 PM:

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# Mojtaba said on May 21, 2008 1:04 AM:

thanks for info sharing.where the non beta version will be released?

# Tom said on May 21, 2008 9:28 AM:

Mojtaba,

It will be released online. You will be able to download it from MSDN. Also, I'm sure I'll put up a post about it when it releases with a link to where to download it from.

# The Bear said on May 21, 2008 12:45 PM:

What?? No Trans-Warp Threading!! Actually i just wanted to thank you for all your work and the stuff you give us in you blog. The speed with which you folks are coming out with a SP shows solid support and some of us really appreciate it.

# Tom said on May 21, 2008 1:04 PM:

Thanks for the kind words. We are trying to do as much as we can. Hope we can continue delivering on giving you the data you want and need.

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