{"id":620,"date":"2008-05-13T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2008-05-13T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:07:05","slug":"substantial-net-visual-studio-update-in-service-pack-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/620-substantial-net-visual-studio-update-in-service-pack-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Substantial .NET, Visual Studio 2008 update in Service Pack 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Scott Guthrie has announced <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.asp.net\/scottgu\/archive\/2008\/05\/12\/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">.NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta<\/a>. Some of the things which caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Performance: up to 40% faster startup for desktop .NET apps, up to 10% faster ASP.NET.\n<li>Smaller runtime in .NET &#8220;Client profile&#8221;. There is a new cut-down runtime for Windows Forms or WPF client apps, bringing the setup down to &#8220;only&#8221; 26MB. The key point here is the size of the file a user must download and run if she does not already have .NET installed in the right version. Tim Sneath has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tims\/archive\/2008\/05\/12\/introducing-the-third-major-release-of-windows-presentation-foundation.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">more details<\/a> about the new client profile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A bit of context: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">.NET 2.0 runtime<\/a> is only 22.4MB. This ballooned to 50.3MB for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?familyid=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">.NET 3.0<\/a>, and 197MB for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&amp;displaylang=en\" target=\"_blank\">.NET 3.5<\/a> (check the size of the full package, not the 2.7MB bootstrapper which launches further downloads) &#8211; though there are ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/astebner\/archive\/2007\/12\/03\/6646794.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">reduce the size<\/a> of the 197MB monster, which actually includes several versions of the .NET Framework.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>New vector shape, Printing, and DataRepeater controls for Windows Forms &#8211; echoes of old VB controls.\n<li>A datagrid for WPF &#8211; not actually in SP1, but promised shortly afterwards.\n<li>WPF interop with Direct3D\n<li>ADO.NET Data Services (formerly Astoria) and Entity Framework<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new SP offers compatibility with SQL Server 2008, and the database product itself is still expected &#8220;third quarter&#8221; as far as I&#8217;m aware. I guess it may go final at the same moment as SP1 for .NET and Visual Studio.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller runtime for .NET desktop apps is welcome, but those in search of a lightweight .NET runtime should look at Silverlight 2.0, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/silverlight\/resources\/install.aspx?v=2.0#instruct\" target=\"_blank\">currently 4.38MB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0e83f0f5-592c-4bc7-9287-efdb229486e0\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/visual%20studio\" rel=\"tag\">visual studio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ado.net\" rel=\"tag\">ado.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/astoria\" rel=\"tag\">astoria<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/asp.net\" rel=\"tag\">asp.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/.net%20frameword\" rel=\"tag\">.net frameword<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/wpf\" rel=\"tag\">wpf<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Scott Guthrie has announced .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 beta. Some of the things which caught my eye: Performance: up to 40% faster startup for desktop .NET apps, up to 10% faster ASP.NET. Smaller runtime in .NET &#8220;Client profile&#8221;. There is a new cut-down runtime for Windows Forms or WPF client &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/620-substantial-net-visual-studio-update-in-service-pack-1.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Substantial .NET, Visual Studio 2008 update in Service Pack 1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,55,77,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-microsoft","category-silverlight","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}