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.

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 20, 2008
  thanks for info sharing.where the non beta version will be released?

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2008
  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.

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2008
  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.

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2008
  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.