Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is out

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is out for testing.

Scott has a great blog post on SP1, but the highlights (which are numerous)

- Classic ASP intelisense and debugging is back

- Faster application startup time

- Better client side rollout

- New Windows Form Controls

- WPF Performance Improvements

- WPF Extensible shader effects

- WPF Direct3D interface

- WPF Design surface improvements in VS2008

- ADO.NET Entity Framework included

- WCF - 5-10x scalability improvements

- WCF Enhanced Test Client

and best of all more Red Squiggles for the C# compiler

You can download and use the beta now here

there are TFS improvements but Richard will be blogging about those

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