What’s New in .NET 3.5 SP1 &
Visual Studio 2008 SP1
New in .NET 3.5 SP1
.NET 3.5 SP1 still runs version 2.0 of core. So its
incremental version with base @ .NET 2.0.
(.NET 2.0 + SP1 + SP2 ) + (.NET
3.0 + SP1 + SP2) + (.NET 3.5 + SP1) = .NET 3.5
SP1
The download of .NET 3.5 SP1 contains
.NET
3.5 SP1 + .NET 2.0 SP2 + .NET 3.0 SP2.
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ADO.NET Entity Framework: Consider this as the next
version of ADO.NET and the end of database programming. This framework will
help creating abstraction layer over underlying database structure in form of
business entities. Developers will program against the entities and database
structure can evolve independently without impacting the code.
It accompanies with it the ADO.NET Entity
Designer for Visual Studio 2008 SP1.
Also LINQ to Entities are now supported.
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ADO.NET Data Services: Expose data lying in RDBMS as
REST based services over HTTP protocol. It implements provider model and so any
RDBMS like SQL Server, Oracle, etc. can be exposed.
These services can be consumed from any kind
of web apps like ASP.NET, AJAX ,Silverlight or any other platform.
This will be very useful for quick
development of data driven apps. It has built-in support for ADO.NET Entity
Framework.
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WPF: Performance improvement for WPF based
applications including faster startup time.
New Web Browser control and native splash
screen support.
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Support for SQL Server 2008’s New features: New SQL
Server 2008 types, new data and file stream capabilities.
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.NET Framework client profile – less than 28 MB. It
contains only those part of the framework which are relevant for Windows Client
applications. It can be packaged with application itself and so no prior
requirement of having .NET framework on client machines. More details
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ASP.NET Dynamic Data: ASP.NET Dynamic data adds the Rapid
Application Development(RAD) feature to data driven ASP.NET web sites. After you
add a LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework data model to a project, you can simply
register it with Dynamic Data. The result is a fully functional Web site. Full
CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations are supported. The site
includes filtering by foreign keys and Boolean fields; foreign keys are
automatically converted to their friendly names. Smart validation is
automatically available, which provides validation based on database constraints
for nullable fields, data type, and field length.
What’s New in Visual Studio 2008 SP1
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SQL Server 2008 support
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ADO.NET Entity Designer
Links for download