Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 released today

As has just been announced on several MSDN and product teams blogs, Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework 3.5 and for Visual Studio 2008 have been released.

SP1 is available for Visual Studio 2008, this download includes the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 as well. Here are the downloads:

• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 download
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 download (includes .NET 3.5 SP1)
• Visual Sudio 2008 Express with SP1 
  For the Express versions, there is a download link available per product (Visual Web Developer Express, Visual Basic 2008 Express, Visual C# 2008 Express, etc). These are full installs, not upgrades.
• Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1 download

Make sure you uninstall the Beta version for SP1 in case you have installed it previsouly.

What is new with this Service Pack?

There are several enhancements, for a full list please see the following blog posts:

• Scott’s post on beta release of SP1
• Performance improvements in WPF
• .NET Client Profile

Note on Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Tools

You will need to update your installation of the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Tools for Visual Studio after installing SP1.

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 11, 2008
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• Anonymous
  August 11, 2008
  I think the details of the release are best covered by others, such as Katrien’s summary of all of the