Installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1

I just finished installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (after cleaning up for extra disk space on C-drive).

Interesting new functionality/enhancements (something unusual for a service pack):

ASP.Net MVC

ASP.NET Dynamic Data

ASP.NET AJAX Back/Forward Button History Support

ASP.Net Routing (System.Web.Routing)

ADO.NET Data Services

ADO.NET Entity Framework

WCF 3.5 SP1

.NET Framework Client Profile : a trimmed subset of the full .NET 3.5 SP1 framework, targeted towards desktop/client applications. The trimming offers a few benefits - smaller size will make it easier to deploy online , trimmed API reduces the surface area of the framework on the client

SQL 2008 support for Visual Studio (I was waiting for this one :-))

Visual Studio Support for Classic ASP Intellisense and Debugging

 

Links:

• Download Visual Studio 2008 SP1
• Download Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 SP1
• Download .Net Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit
• http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/08/12/more-things-to-know-about-installing-sp1.aspx
• Silverlight Tools Beta2 for Visual Studio 2008 (install after installing SP1
• Somasegar's announcement about SP1

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