Service Pack 1 for both Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 have been released.

VS 2008 SP1 Highlights:

• Improved performance and reliability
• Improved designers for building WPF applications
• Improved tools for building AJAX applications
• ADO.NET Entity Framework designer
• Richer JavaScript development environment
• Streamlined website deployment experience
• SQL Server 2008 support

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Highlights:

• Bug fixes
• Increased WPF performance
• .NET Framework Client Profile
• Enhanced support for database application development (ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and integration with SQL Server 2008
• Multiple enhancements to ASP.NET (such as ASP.NET Dynamic Data)

For a more detailed description of the improvements brought about by Service Pack 1, check out Somasegar's blog post and the MSDN page on the release.

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