I was so happy to see that Microsoft has finally release Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. It contains so many improvements and bug fixes; you can view the full list of the enhancements at Scott Guthrie’s blog.

Below is a list of all the sweet improvements made to the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 since the .NET Framework 3.5 was initially released!

Here is a cool internal tool used by Microsoft that is now seeing daylight.

The .netTiers team released .netTiers 2.3.0 Beta 1 the other day. .netTiers 2.3.0 is a maintenance release containing many bug fixes and patches. We have also added various requested features like Enterprise Library version 4 as well as support for Visual Studio 2008.

A tip that not a lot of people know is that the samples are not reset during every new release of CodeSmith Generator. New versions of templates are added to the CodeSmith Generator template directory for the Major and Minor versions. However that is not the case for regular builds (identified via the assembly build number) for example: 5.3.x. Please note that this will also work if you want to reset your templates for the fun of it.