Jonathan Carter from Microsoft will be visiting Sarasota and presenting on the various technologies and features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on Tuesday, June. 10, 2008 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm.
Per the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Download page:
"This download installs Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 includes support for SQL Server 2008, new ADO.NET features such as the Entity Framework, improvements to the WPF designers, WCF templates for Silverlight projects, debugger support for the .NET Framework public symbols and source release, control improvements such as the DataRepeater for Windows Forms and Office 2007 Ribbons for C++, and several general updates for debugging and IntelliSense. SP1 also enhances the stability, performance, and security of many features.
The included .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 adds many new features and fixes, including the following:
- .NET Framework Client Release (“Arrowhead”)
- ASP.NET Dynamic Data
- ASP.NET Routing
- ADO.NET Data Services
- ADO.NET Entity Framework"
Learn more here.