Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available now
Today we released a Beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1.
Traditionally our service packs address a range of issues found both through customer and partner feedback as well as our own internal testing. While this service pack holds true to that theme and delivers updates for these types of issues, it also builds on the tremendous value that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 deliver today and enables an improved developer experience by adding a number of additional components that cover a range of highly requested customer features. For example, the service pack is the first release for Visual Studio 2008 that delivers full support for SQL Server 2008 and the ADO.NET Entity Framework.
Visual Studio : You will find improved functionality and performance in the WPF designers, additional components and tools for Visual Basic & Visual C++ including an MFC-based Office 2007 Ribbon and various stability fixes, richer JavaScript features, improved Web development and site deployment, and performance improvements for the IDE. For more information on the performance improvements in the service pack, see the Performance Team’s blog.
Visual Studio Team System : There are improvements to Visual Studio Team System such as updated “Add to Source Control” dialogs, Drag and Drop support from Windows Explorer to the Source Control Explorer, and version control of unbound files. For work item tracking we have added Ribbon support for Office 2007 so you now have a clean and easy way to access relevant TFS operations from Office applications as seen below. For more information on the new features available in Team System, check out Brian Harry’s blog.
.NET Framework 3.5 : From a .NET Framework perspective, SP1 introduces more controls, streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics features for client development and rich data scaffolding, and improved AJAX support.
I’m very excited about the introduction of the .NET Framework Client Profile, a smaller .NET Framework Redist optimized for client scenarios. Some of the benefits of this profile are immediate responsiveness with a 200K bootstrapper to enable the fastest response to the application setup URL, an integrated custom UI allowing packaging of your application and the framework for a seamless install experience, and lastly incredible install speed at 26.5 mb (this translates to about 6 minutes on a typical connection).
Like I mentioned above, SP1 for the .NET Framework introduces the ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services which simplifies data access code in applications by providing an extensible, conceptual model for data from any data source and enabling this model to closely reflect business requirements.
Dynamic Data is a new feature in ASP.NET that dynamically builds a fully functional website from a LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework data model. In order to generate a similar screen to below, all a developer has to do is create a data model, register the data model with Dynamic Data (1 line of code), and then run the project. This is part of the new RAD data features that get developers started very quickly and then they can refine the application with traditional ASP.NET programming.
The bits for the VS2008 SP1 Beta and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta are available for download here.
The readme files list known compatability issues for Visual Studio Professional and for Visual Studio Team System.
Namaste!
Comments
Anonymous
May 12, 2008
Je ne surpris de ne pas encore avoir vu passer l'info sur les blogs de CodeS-SourceS mais bon, week-endAnonymous
May 12, 2008
You probably already saw Soma’s Blog on the Beta for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 . If youAnonymous
May 12, 2008
See: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspAnonymous
May 12, 2008
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May 12, 2008
Soma announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloaded . This includes several updates, includes support for SQL Server 2008, and has a few new products including the Entity Framework, LINQ to EntitiesAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Soma announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloadedAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Cool news! Thanks for the info!Anonymous
May 12, 2008
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta Now AvailableAnonymous
May 12, 2008
We released the first beta of .NET 3.5 SP 1 this morning, and it includes a change to the default grantAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Beta) has been released to web , along with Microsoft .NETAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Soma announced this morning that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP 1 is now ready and can be downloadedAnonymous
May 12, 2008
I noticed .NET 3.5 SP1 also contains SP2 for .NET 2.0/3.0. What? SP2 already? Wasn't SP1 delivered in last November? It's hardly 6 months and a new service pack!! I can understand about .NET 3.5 and VS2008 needing an SP1. And still large number of customers have .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 installed and yet no service pack for them? Is there any balance going on here? There are approximately 150 hotfixes after .NET 1.1 Service Pack 1. And there may be hardly 10-15 hotfixes in .NET 2.0/3.0 SP2!!! Please produce a final .NET 1.1 SP2 before it enters extended support from mainstream support. Doesn't Microsoft do any customer userbase surveys? Lots of shops are still on .NET 1.1. Also, I noticed the Express editions with SP1 have web-based setup. I hope at RTM of SP1, there'l be a full Express SP1 ISO.Anonymous
May 12, 2008
Read the whole thing here : Today we released a Beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 ServiceAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Read more at Somasegar's blog here .Anonymous
May 12, 2008
Microsoft has rolled out the beta of SP1 for .NET Framework version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Now don'tAnonymous
May 12, 2008
SP1 of .NET 3.5 is now available as a Beta release. This beta release has the fix for the ThreadPoolAnonymous
May 12, 2008
It was originally planned for last friday, but to hold back the pressure for the support team to enjoyAnonymous
May 12, 2008
@anonymous In the case of the Express SKUs, at SP1 ship we will absolutely have the full SP1 ISO image as we have today for VS 2008 RTM. John GPM, VS ExpressAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Ok, I'm not totally sure why all my posts lately have had a slightly negative tone to them, perhaps I'mAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta available nowAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Rilasciata aggi: Today we released a Beta of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1Anonymous
May 12, 2008
Finally Scott Guthrie released the news, was waiting to post my review. Friday night I installed VisualAnonymous
May 12, 2008
I am not going to even bother talking about what is in it, I am reading it like everyone else! But goAnonymous
May 12, 2008
If you haven't heard the news yet, Microsoft has released a beta of a service pack (SP1) for VisualAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Visual Studio SP1 beta is available for Download, it includes hundreds of bug fixes and customer-reportedAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Would you please release a detailed document about .NET 2.0 SP 2 ? You have just written it exist as oart of this .NET 3.5 SP1, but haven't told anything about it. Will it be available as a standalone download? does it includes red bits? See my blog to understand why it is so important to have this info: http://readcommit.blogspot.com/2008/05/microsoft-net-framework-20-service-pack.html Thanks in advance.Anonymous
May 12, 2008
Service Pack 1 is here, yippy. Obviously, this is a Beta release, thus you might want to install it onAnonymous
May 12, 2008
Just links.... ScottGu Soma Entity Framework Data Services DownloadAnonymous
May 13, 2008
What is new in Express SP1? Silverlight support in VWD? TR-1 in C++ Express?Anonymous
May 13, 2008
Okay...i am confused... With this release is there support 64bit support? Some say that there is some say that it is for a different release... thanksAnonymous
May 14, 2008
When will Sync framework RTM? It's been in beta for so long.Anonymous
May 14, 2008
There are various enhancements and even changes in SP1 . Perhaps one of the most interesting is the changeAnonymous
May 16, 2008
The following question was raised about .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and its constituent parts – “I noticed .NET 3.5 SP1 also contains SP2 for .NET 2.0/3.0. What? SP2 already? Wasn't SP1 delivered in last November? It's hardly 6 months and a new service pack!! I can understand about .NET 3.5 and VS2008 needing an SP1. And still large number of customers have .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 installed and yet no service pack for them? Is there any balance going on here? There are approximately 150 hotfixes after .NET 1.1 Service Pack 1. And there may be hardly 10-15 hotfixes in .NET 2.0/3.0 SP2!!! Please produce a final .NET 1.1 SP2 before it enters extended support from mainstream support. Doesn't Microsoft do any customer userbase surveys? Lots of shops are still on .NET 1.1” This is a great question and I wanted to reply. First we absolutely realized that there are a number of customers still on .Net Framework 1.1 and we will look into the possibility of servicing it again. I can tell you that the servicing requests on 1.1 are very low and the volume of servicing requests is a big part of what plays into the timing and need for an SP. Which of course leads into your questions of why we are updating the 2.0 bits again which comes down to the fact that to provide a service pack of .Net Framework 3.5 it was necessary to provide fixes in the lower level core parts of the .Net Framework. Given that we needed to update a number of binaries to deliver the 3.5 SP1 we made the decision to go ahead and allow an additional set of fixes into the 2.0 and 3.0 layers. This is a byproduct of the fact that the current set of .Net Framework versions are much like a layer cake with .Net Framework 2.0 at the bottom, then .Net Framework 3.0 and finally the .Net Framework 3.5 layered on top. Each of the upper layers has dependencies into lower layers, but not vice versa. In other words 3.5 can depend on 3.0 and/or 2.0, but 2.0 has no dependencies on 3.0 or 3.5. As you can see this means that some fixes or features in the 3.5 can require updates in their dependant layer to function properly. Also, with the introduction of 3.5 we now allow for the SPs of the .Net Framework to install on both machines with predecessor version or no version at all. This allows customers to not have to deploy two items, the RTM version and its SP, but only the SP. Thanks, Larry Sullivan Group ManagerAnonymous
May 20, 2008
Just in case anyone hasn't heard yet, we have released a beta of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET FrameworkAnonymous
May 21, 2008
Last week Soma and Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FrameworkAnonymous
May 30, 2008
I apologize for taking so long between posts. I have an excuse: very busy working on Visual Studio 2008Anonymous
June 23, 2008
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January 15, 2009
Service Pack 1 is here, yippy. Obviously, this is a Beta release, thus you might want to install it onAnonymous
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