.NET Framework 3.5SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 released!

Alright!  .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 are live and available on the web today.  There are lots of places to read about all the great stuff there, but from the perspective of this blog, the two big additions over the Beta of .NET 3.5 SP1 are:

• Support for multiple texture inputs to shaders used in ShaderEffects.  The makes ShaderEffects quite a bit more expressive and powerful.
• The addition of D3DImage, allowing composition-level interop between DirectX surfaces and WPF.  This feature opens up many, many possibilities of meaningful integration between code that already uses DirectX, or code that is more appropriately written in DirectX than in WPF.

That's just a teaser... I'll describe these in more detail (or link to other resources that do) in upcoming posts.

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 11, 2008
  PingBack from http://www.easycoded.com/net-framework-35sp1-and-visual-studio-2008-sp1-released

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2008
  These are really great additions to the WPF

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2008
  Here is a complete list of .NET Fx 3.5 SP1 changes compare to .NET Fx 3.5. http://codebetter.com/blogs/patricksmacchia/archive/2008/08/13/net-3-5-sp1-changes-overview.aspx 1.393 new public methods, 79 new public types, 6.384 methods where code was changed ...

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
  Seems that .Net 3.5 SP1 breaks some pretty basic stuff. Well done!