At the last Gulf Coast .NET User Group, I presented the following slides. There are a number of great features in Service Pack 1 release of VS 2008 and 3.5.1 Version of the .NET Framework. Here are couple quick things to keep in mind.

•  VS 2008 SP1 and 3.5.1 Framework are pretty much a lockstep upgrade.
• I call the framework 3.5.1 because MS released a service pack for the framework soon after releasing 3.5.
• MVC is not part of this release of the framework and is still a separate install. It will likely be a part of 4.0 Framework due out this year.

Visual Studio SP & .NET 3.5.1 Framework Features Presentation

Lately, I have been researching using the .NET 3.0 Framework - Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for an upcoming project and found the MSEvents WCF Webcast Series by Michelle Leroux Bustamante to be top knotch. She definately knows the WCF framework and has great communication and presentation skills. She also has a book published by O’Reilly, which I now plan on reading.

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