Microsoft is producing out there to testers a first beta release of Company Pack (SP) one for Visual Studio 2008 plus the accompanying .Net Framework three.5.
On May well twelve, Microsoft produced offered to any/all interested events the very first beta bits for both VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework three.five SP1. These might be downloaded from Microsoft;s Microsoft Developer Network web page. Microsoft is warning testers that you will discover some compatibility issues involving the VS 2008/.Net Framework three.5 SP1 betas and Expression Mix, the Silverlight 2 Beta one software development kit (SDK) and Silverlight Instruments Beta one for VS 2008.
New to VS 2008 SP1, according to Microsoft, are “new features for targeting Windows, Office,
Office 2007 License, and the Web. Developers building .NET-basedapplications will enjoy improved performance in the WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) designer, new components for Visual Basic and Visual C++, too as an MFC-based
Office 2007 Ribbon. Web developers will see continued advancement in the client-side script tooling including JavaScript IntelliSense.”
And new to the .Net Framework 3.five SP 1 are “more controls, a streamlined setup,
Office 2010 Keygen, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics features for client improvement and rich data scaffolding, improved AJAX support,
Office 2007 Activation, and other improvements for Internet improvement.”
The .Net Framework three.five SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 also both add support for the ADO.Net Entity Framework. The framework services pack also adds support for ADO.Net Data Services, along with the VS 2008 a single adds support for the still-in-beta SQL Server 2008 release.
Microsoft has been building an entity data model framework around its ADO.Net technology that is designed to raise the level of abraction for database programmers. Originally,
Office 2010 Discount, the ADO.Net Entity Framework was slated to be part of Visual Studio 2008.
ADO.Net Services, the technology codenamed “Astoria,
Microsoft Office Home And Student 2010,” is a RESTful interface for data. Astoria is designed to enable applications to expose data as a data services that can be consumed by Net clients within a corporate network and across the World wide web. Microsoft released a 1st test build of Astoria in December 2007, with officials saying the final release should be ready around mid-2008.
Microsoft officials declined to provide a target date for delivery of the final SP1s for Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5.