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Very Quick Note: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 was released finally (in combination with .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 of course).

To sum up for some people, note that VS 2008 SP1 includes ADO.NET Entity framework (and its designer) as well as ADO.NET Data Services, but NOT ASP.NEt MVC framework (but does include ASP.NET Dynamic Data & ASP.NET AJAX history control and script combining). It also includes some WCF enhancements as well as major VS performance and scalability fixes.

• ISO Donwload (and instructions)
  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=27673C47-B3B5-4C67-BD99-84E525B5CE61&displaylang=en
• Readme (MUST READ: There`re many ridiculous known issues)
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/2/8/A2807F78-C861-4B66-9B31-9205C3F22252/VS2008SP1Readme.htm
• Official Page (Read for list of new stuff included)
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc533447.aspx
• ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Page (Details and Videos for most big features – RECOMMENDED)
  http://www.asp.net/downloads/3.5-sp1/
• Soma’s Announcement
  http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/08/11/service-pack-1-for-vs-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-released.aspx

P.S.

SQL Server 2008 also was released earlier last week.

See official page for SQL Server 2008: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx