I’ve been waiting for this day for a very long time. Starting today you can view or debug the source code to the following .NET Framework libraries:

Jet Brains has finally released ReSharper 3.1. This is the first and much needed update to ReSharper since Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufactures. ReSharper 3.1 also contains new functionality like Solution Analysis (The ability to check an entire solution for errors/code improvements) and many bug fixes.

This release contains project templates for using Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Web Developer 2008 to create new web sites and web applications with ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0 features. The project templates contain specific references to assemblies in .NET Framework 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0 (Microsoft).

Two more of the hands-on labs from the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit have been published as MSDN virtual labs. This allows you to can get started with VS 2008 in a minute and start exploring the new features. The two new labs focus on the language enhancements with C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9. Here is a summary of the MSDN virtual labs that are now available:

October 27-30, 2008