- Three months after its official “launch”, SQL Server 2008 is finally soup. You can find out more about it here.
- .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 has also been released. Much more than a Service Pack, this release has a whole slew of new features, and also contains serious performance improvements, due to the work they've been doing with Silverlight.
- Adding one more flavor to the .NET Runtime soup is the .NET 3.5 Client Profile, which is a subset of the standard .NET Framework that doesn't have any of the server-related features (like ASP.NET, etc). Expect this to replace the standard .NET Framework Runtime in future iterations that come built into Windows Client releases (like Windows Vista).
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1 was also released. As MJ noted, it has enough new features to qualify as a full-fledged release, but don't let Microsoft catch you calling it one.
- TFS 2008 SP1 is out as well, with dozens of bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Finally, if you have the beta versions of any of the above, this tool will help clean them off of your system.
- Mirosoft partnered with Axialis Software to give all Visual Studio 2008 customers "IconWorkshop Lite", a stripped-down version of their flagship IconWorkshop application that integrates right with VS. Seeing as how the bitmap editor in VS is terrible, this is a great addition for building solid icons. [via Visual C++ blog]
- Snipp Dogg is a stand-alone utility that helps you create and manage Visual Studio code snippets. Not enough component vendors are taking advantage of Snippets, but hopefully that will change soon.
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