See: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspx Edit: ScottGu has also a post about the SP: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx There are lots of stuff in that SP... Summary Web -ASP.NET Data ...

I promised to spread the word. :-) Phil and his peers have a developer event, DDD Ireland, in Ireland on 3rd of May. And here's the "official poster" :-) Developer Event? Ah go on, go on, go on. Check it out at www.DDDIreland.com

Mike Volodarsky has put up a nice article about VS2008 and IIS 7.0 together. Check it out: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/387/using-visual-studio-2008-with-iis-70/

See: http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2008/02/19/microsoft-giving-away-free-developer-software-to-students/ "Microsoft is announcing right now DreamSpark, a new program that gives free developer, designer and related software to college students in 11 countries. DreamSpark goes live today in Belgium, China, Finland, France, ...

MS has released ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax templates for VS2008. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/12/19/using-vs2008-to-target-net-framework-2-0-with-asp-net-ajax.aspx

It's funny when you get reply to things you don't remember you've asked for. :-) I had given feedback somewhere Oct 2006 in Microsoft Connect about System.Collections.Generic not being imported by default in ASP.NET 2.0. E.g you had to manually add the import. Small thing but annoyed when one had to do it repeatedly. Now MS had ...

Microsoft is taking one more step to the open community / world. Scott Guthrie is announcing in his blog that Microsoft is going to release the source code of .NET Framework with 3.5 and VS2008 release. Many people know that you've already been able to see the code with external tools such as Reflector however this MS's ...

If that's the case, see following posts ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/30/asp-net-ajax-in-net-3-5-and-vs-2008.aspx Upgrading ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Websites and Web Applications to .NET Framework 3.5 ...