.NET 3.5 SP1 officially released today and along with it has come a ton of great new stuff. Just a few quick highlights:
- Entity Framework and Entity Designer now available - team blog here
- ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) is now available - team blog here
- SLQ Server 2008 support
- WPF gets a 20-25% performance boost with zero code changes
- WCF improvements
- Optimized Client Runtime - shrinks Framework bootstrap install to under 20MB for client applications!
- And much more
Time to start downloading!!!