Microsoft has released .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Key features of VS 2008 SP1 include:
- ADO.Net Entity Framework v1
- ADO.Net Data Services v1
- ASP.Net Dynamic Data
- Support for working with the recently released SQL Server 2008.
Still under development is ASP.NET MVC, with Preview Release #3 tested to work (as much as preview code works) with VS 2008 SP1.
Importantly Visual Studio 2008 SP1 should be installed before installing SQL Server 2008. Installing SQL Server 2008 on a machine running Visual Studio 2008 without the SP1 update will fail.
See Guy Burstein's Blog for download links.
Roger Jennings of OakLeaf Systems describes his installation experiences.