Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta

UPDATE: ADO.NET team blog talk about what changes to expect from this BSP. One major thing is support for SQL Server 2008 via Server Explorer. So now you can use SQL Server 2008 with the Entity Framework (I've not tried this so do not know how well it works). Read the post here. A little information on this subject can be found over at LINQinAction here.

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 beta is now available and been officially released.

VS 2008 SP1: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/3/8/7382EA08-4DD6-4134-9B92-8585A5B07973/VS90sp1-KB945140-ENU.exe

.NET 3.5 SP1: http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/f/c/8fc1fe13-55de-4bf5-b43e-375daf01452e/dotNetFx35setup.exe

Express with SP1:

1. http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/E/7/FE754BA4-140B-413C-933F-8D35FB150F12/vbsetup.exe
2. http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/E/7/FE754BA4-140B-413C-933F-8D35FB150F12/vcsetup.exe
3. http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/E/7/FE754BA4-140B-413C-933F-8D35FB150F12/vcssetup.exe
4. http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/E/7/FE754BA4-140B-413C-933F-8D35FB150F12/vnssetup.exe

TFS 2008 SP1: http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/e/2/ae2eb0ff-e687-4221-9c3e-9165a942bc1c/TFS90sp1-KB949786.exe

Note: This release does *not* include SP1 for .NET CF 3.5. No announcements have been made when this will occur.

Scott Guthrie talks about some interesting features/fixes with the advent of this SP.