.NET Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008 Released

Microsoft has announced the RTM of .NET Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008. This is going to be an exciting release with all the language enhancements and IDE improvements. Soma & Scott Guthrie has blogged about the release. Check out scott guthrie's blog post for links to his previous posts explaining different new features in visual studio 2008. Soma was on channel9 announcing the release.

Here are some useful links

• Download Visual Studio 2008
• Download the .NET Framework 3.5
• Visual Studio 2008 Product Guide
• Visual Studio 2008 Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade
• Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0

Once you download the Visual Studio 2008, Here is the link to Visual Studio Training kit to get started.

• VisualStudio 2008 Training Kit : The technologies covered in the kit include: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle Management.
• Visual Studio Training Kit Videos :Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit was originally developed as a 5 day training program for the ISVs. The training kit has demos, presentations & Hand-on-labs. The videos of these sessions are being published on Channel9. The videos from the first day available now. Click on the link for videos.