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Download Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack (SP) 1 Beta Today
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta introduces full support for SQL Server 2008, improved performance in the IDE and WPF designers, improved Web development and site deployment, as well as many Team Foundation Server enhancements.
Microsoft
Monday, May 12, 2008 10:11:52 AM
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack (SP) 1 Beta Now Available
Download the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta for improved features for both client and Web development. Additionally, SP1 for the .NET Framework introduces the ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services.
Microsoft
Monday, May 12, 2008 10:11:50 AM

WPF Videos

MSDN Webcast: Using Windows Presentation Foundation for Good and Not Evil (Level 300)
Recorded at Microsoft Tech∙Ed 2008 Developers in Orlando, FL.Putting the power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) into the hands of developers who are unschb...

MSDN Webcast: Windows Presentation Foundation Soup to Nuts (Part 18 of 18): Helpful Tools (Level 200)
Join us for the final session in this series as Bill Steele discusses some of the other professional tools available for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) developers. Bill also demonstr...

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Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
The Windows SDK for Windows Server® 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 provides the documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools (including C++ compilers) that you need to develop applications to run on Windows Server 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5.

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WPF Blogs

A VisualStudio BuildTask and project and item templates for writing ShaderEffects
In a number of places in this series on Effects, I've alluded to a VisualStudio BuildTask and projec... more
Greg Schechter
Monday, August 11, 2008 9:50:43 PM
.NET Framework 3.5SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 released!
Alright!  .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2008 SP1 are live and available on the web today.  There are... more
Greg Schechter
Monday, August 11, 2008 9:28:11 PM
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Is Here!
Get it from http://silverlight.net/GetStarted, along with the developer tools, documentation and... more
tims
Friday, June 06, 2008 6:59:19 PM
Why You Want To Book Your PDC2008 Ticket NOW...
If you're into any of the technologies that this blog covers, you'll be mad if you miss the Profess... more
tims
Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:10:00 PM
Interested in working on the WPF team?
As you can see from this and other blogs, there's lots of exciting stuff going on in WPF these days,... more
Greg Schechter
Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:02:46 PM
50 New Silverlight Screencasts - Short and Snappy
I haven't seen these training videos receive nearly the coverage they deserve, so I wanted to try an... more
tims
Monday, May 19, 2008 9:22:00 PM
Writing custom Effects - adding parameters to Effects
A couple of posts ago, I wrote about writing custom Effects.  The example that I dove into was... more
Greg Schechter
Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:15:11 PM

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Josh Smith
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