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As promised last week with the release of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on Monday August 11th.
At the time of writing, I can't find it on the MSDN site, but it is on the MSDN Subscriptions website, so it's just a matter of time before it appears publicly.
The Service Pack is about 800MB large, the updated MSDN Library about 2.2GB!
Update: Here's the public download link.
Is the release of SP1 a big deal? Yes, it surely is.
Below is a list containing a few of the new/improved features:
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- ASP.NET AJAX Back/Forward Button History Support
- Visual Studio Support for Classic ASP Intellisense and Debugging
- ASP.NET Routing Engine (System.Web.Routing)
- Visual Web Developer Express Edition support for Class Library and Web Application Projects
- New .NET Framework Setup Bootstrapper for Client Applications
- New Windows Forms Controls like the vector shape, Printing, and the DataRepeater
- WPF Performance Improvements (handy for my current WPF project that contains High Definition video!!)
- VS 2008 for WPF Improvements
- SQL 2008 Support
- ADO.NET Entity Framework and Linq to Entities
- ADO.NET Data Services
- Several improvements to C# as well as Visual Basic
- Many improvements on Team Foundation Server
More information here.
All the links you need: