Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta Released

May 12, 2008 by: Brendan

The beta version of Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET 3.5 framework was released today. Microsoft .NET development guru Scott Guthrie has written a great article about some of the new service pack features, along with some key installation notes. You can review the post here.

This has motivated me to try out VS 2008 again. I used the 60-day trial late last year, but had to maintain so many projects using VS 2005 that I never gave the new version a fair shake. My goal for the end of this week is to find compelling reasons to start my next big marketing project using the .NET 3.5 framework.

I also need to install and test the new framework in our existing .NET 1.1 and 2.0 environments. We have had trouble in the past with the inability to select a framework version for SQL Server 2005. It will always use the latest installed version of the framework. I want to review any errors first-hand and document my resolutions this time around.

I will post updates on my research and conclude with a strong case to move our future development to the new framework.