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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:

• Express Editions
• Team Foundation Server SP1
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• Visual Studio 2008 Preparation Pack Tool
• .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
• Silverlight Tools for VS2008 SP1