Monday, August 11, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 are out

I haven't been posting about product releases lately (other than aggiorno of course) as I've been trying to focus my posts on more concrete yet ideation-like process, still I think I see this as a public service given that no official announcement has been made.

Seems like, for the contents of the download page, that Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 as well as its sibling the .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 have been release to web for anyone to download.

From the page we can read:

SP1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. These service packs offer Visual Studio and .NET Framework users improvements in responsiveness, stability and performance.

Even though this service release does address a bunch on issues from the current release, it also adds a lot of new functionality specially for the ASP.NET and WPF set of APIs.

To learn more, check out this couple of links from the ASP.NET team and Tim Sneath on how major this changes are.

Links to downloads are:

  • SP1 bundle for both the VS 2008 and .NET Fx go get it here.
  • SP1 for .NET 3.5 only here

Hope you guys have fun with these new releases and let your brain and skills go nuts with the pack of all new features.

Update: check out the official post on the release at Soma's Blog.


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