WHAT’S NEW IN THE .NET FRAMEWORK 3.5 SERVICE PACK 1

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Where Are We?

.NET 1.0 .NET 1.1

.NET 2.0.NET 2.0 SP 1•Bug fixes only

.NET 3.0•WCF, WPF, WF

.NET 3.0 SP 1•Bug fixes only

.NET 3.5•LINQ•ASP.NET AJAX

.NET 3.5 SP 1•TODAY!

.NET 4.0•Just announced. Not ETA.

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Risk?

.NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 3.5SP1 all use same CLR.

There are bugs!• 17 of them and effect very fringe cases

• 3 WPF; 3 ASP.NET; 4 DATA; 1 CDF; 6 CLR

• A GDR (General Distribution Release) patch is coming

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What’s New in General(allthe stuff that can’t be demo’d - so it’s on a couple of text slides)

• Application start up• In particular from cold starts (i.e. First .NET app to

run)• 10% to 40%

• Setup Bootstrap• Detect, download, install smallest required

Framework

• ClickOnce• Support for the Client Framework• Branded Install• Single solution for MSI + Click Once• FireFox browser extension to support Clickonce

installations using FireFox browsers

CLIENT FRAMEWORK DEMO

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veSmoother Animations (Vista SP1, WinXP

SP 3)Performance Improvements

• Text Rendering• 2d Graphic Rendering• Up to 40 improvement in performance for

scrolling• Binding to IEnumerable improved

• D3DImage

What’s New in WPF(allthe stuff that can’t be demo’d - so it’s on a couple of text slides... again)

WHAT’S NEW IN WPF DEMOAlternating row colours

Deferred Scrolling

Shader Effects

ASP.NET DEMOSDynamic Data

Routing Engine

ASP.NET AJAX

ADO.NET DEMOSData Services

Entity Framework

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References

http://windowsclient.net/wpf/wpf35/wpf-whats-new-35sp1.aspxhttp://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx