Microsoft announced today the release of the first public beta of Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the 3.5 version of the .Net framework.  Rather than an extended re-hash of what's included in the release, I'll defer to the experts:

• Scott Guthrie
• Brad Abrams
• Scott Hanselman

Some of the highlights for me are:

• Rails-like "Scaffolding" support via ASP.Net Dynamic Data (I need to play around with this and see if there's a need to get Miado to work with this)
• ASP.Net AJAX script combining to reduce the number of requests to the server
• ASP.Net AJAX back button support!
• Improved Javascript intellisense and formatting
• Support for ADO.Net Data Services (the project formerly known as Astoria), which aids in the creation of a data access layer using REST-ful web services
  

Since this is a *beta* version of a service pack, at this point I personally wouldn't install this in anything but a VM.

Monday, May 12, 2008 4:45:45 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)      Comments [0]  .Net | Visual Studio