As announced by Somasegar last week, Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 (including Express editions), .NET 3.5 Beta 2 and Silverlight 1.0 RC are now available.

.NET 3.5 Beta 2 includes a go-live license.  Scott Guthrie has an excellent blog post  on some of the new features for web development with the new VS 2008/.NET 3.5 development platform.  Among the new features are multi-targeting support, improved web designer and CSS support, built-in ASP.NET AJAX and Javascript support, language improvements including LINQ, data access improvements with LINQ to SQL and lots of other improvements.

Links:

• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/future/bb421473.aspx
• http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/downloads.aspx

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