Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is also now available. This is a very exciting release with support for:

• Silverlight 2 SDK Beta 2 & Silverlight Tools Beta 2
• MVC Preview Release #3
• ASP.NET Extensions/Dynamic Data Preview
• VC 2008 Feature Pack
• VB PowerPack Controls (2.0 & 3.0)
• Expression Studio 2 (RTM)
• SQL Server 2008
• .NET Framework 3.5 SDK
• XSLT Profiler
• VSTA 2.0 SDK
• Visual Studio 2008 SDK

I can’t wait to dig into the new MVC Framework. You can download the service pack here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en

Microsoft has released Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1.

Download Here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AB99342F-5D1A-413D-8319-81DA479AB0D7&displaylang=en

So I’ve been looking a little into the new MVC framework that will be included in .NET 3.5 SP1 (Currently avalible in Preview version 4). Check out Scott Guthrie’s blog series starting at http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx

I can’t wait to start playing with it. Also check out the asp.net MVC home page at: http://www.asp.net/mvc/ Scott Hanselman has some really good videos on MVC. Especially check out the Storefront Starter Kit. Not only does it go over MVC but also TDD (Test Driven Development). I’ve never used TDD before and it looks very intresting. I will be looking into that as well.

I just read the announcement from the www.asp.net website that ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 has been released.  Read more from Scott Guthrie’s Blog for details:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/01/23/asp-net-ajax-1-0-released.aspx

These tools have been an enormous help to me in many of my projects.  Thanks guy’s.