Released: Visual Studio Service Pack 1; .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1

Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 are now available for download. A new feature for C# developers called squiggles provides better error messages while you are typing your code. There are several important LINQ performance enhancements, including one that could yield a 30% speed increase in some common scenarios. There are also thousands of other bug fixes.

A general description of these releases is available here. It describes Visual Studio and .NET 3.5 changes such as:

• Improvements to the WPF designers, and core WPF performance.
• SQL 2008 support
• Entity Framework support.

Download

A download page is available here, or you can just follow these links:

VS 2008 Service Pack 1:

• Executable: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122094 (Direct Link)
• Iso: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122095 (Direct Link)

VS 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1:

• Executable: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123679
• ISO: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123680

VS Team System 2008 Team Foundation SP 1:

• https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=124829

.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1:

• https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=124150

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 11, 2008
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• Anonymous
  August 11, 2008
  Theres just a ton of new features in SP1... so lets just jump to the links (from Charlies blog post )

• Anonymous
  August 11, 2008
  Charlie, can't wait to read about the LINQ performance enhancements. Any chance there's information on the web on the subject already? Thanks in advance!

• Anonymous
  August 11, 2008
  Novi SP za .NET Framework 3.5 i Visual Studio 2008

• Anonymous
  August 11, 2008
  Microsoft has recently released an updated training kit with presentations, hands-on labs, demos and

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2008
  Excellent... I've been waiting a while for this to finally release... Thanks for all the quick links

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2008
  Where is a detailed list of changes such as listing new/changed .NET framework methods?

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2008
  Anders, Dinesh has outlined the performance improvements for LINQ. You can read his blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/dinesh.kulkarni/archive/2008/08/10/net-fx-3-5-sp1-two-perf-improvements-linq-to-objects-and-linq-to-sql.aspx He's a little more careful than I am about describing the actual amount of improvement we will see, so I may tweak more words a bit just to play it safe. But there are definite improvements which yield positive results.

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2008
  Just wondering where System.Windows.Controls.WegbBrowser is? A previous blog entry stated that it was going to be included with SP1, but, it appears to not be there.

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2008
  Is any one else having problems loading workflow projects with SP1? I get an error saying "Project type not supported" even when trying to create a new workflow project.

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2008
  Does anyone know when/if this will hit WSUS?  The .NET Framework 3.5 itself still is not on WSUS.

• Anonymous
  August 14, 2008
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  August 14, 2008
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• Anonymous
  August 20, 2008
  Folowing exception was thrown by many applications after installing SP1 "Cryptographic service provider (CSP) could not be found for this algorithm.". All applications works fine, before installing SP.

• Anonymous
  August 21, 2008
  The Cast operator was always intended to cast an untyped collection (i.e. IEnumerable) to a typed collection (i.e. IEnumerable<T>). The fact that it was also capable of executing type casts on elements was a mistake in the implementation. The correct way to perform a type cast on each element is to use the Select statement: ints.Select(i => i.ToString())

• Anonymous
  August 23, 2008
  I dunno, i guess this is still beta or preview version, or it might be the deployment team got wrong when they were packaging the installer, or it might be the tester team also forgot to test everything, or whatever things that makes me have to say that this is a nightmare release =))

• Anonymous
  August 23, 2008
  Can anybody explain this: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/32884786/netframework-35-sp1.aspx

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2008
  Novi SP za .NET Framework 3.5 i Visual Studio 2008

• Anonymous
  January 30, 2009
  Для всехСкачать Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 ExpressДля подписчиков MSDN .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack...

• Anonymous
  September 13, 2009
  Hello, it's not direct link to iso I have direct link for non SP1 only http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=104679