Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta - A Guided Tour

Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta - A Guided Tour

Over the last month I've been working with an internal build of the Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta in order to explore the new features in it. Now that the beta was announced (here, here) I can finally write about it. This post lists all the posts I've written exploring the service pack.

Overview of the Service Pack 1

• Download and Install Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta
• New Assemblies in Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

ADO.Net Entity Framework

• EntityDataSource - Overview
• EntityDataSource - Where Clause
• An Overview Screencast about EntityDataSource 

ADO.Net Data Services

• A Simple ADO.Net Data Service Walkthrough (updated for SP1)
• Querying an ADO.Net Data Service via .Net Client (updated for SP1)

ADO.Net Sync Services

• Sync Services for ADO.Net now use SQL Server 2008 Change Tracking

SQL Server 2008 and Data Access Technologies

• SqlFileStream - Managed API for SQL Server 2008 FILESTREAM
• LINQ to SQL with SQL Server 2008 Date Time Types
• LINQ to SQL and FILESTREAM
• ADO.Net Entity Framework support for FILESTREAM

Enjoy!