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Redmond Developer Newsletter
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Aug. 12, 2008

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In this issue:

1) DESMOND FILE, MICHAEL DESMOND
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Lands

2) MORE NEWS FROM REDDEVNEWS.COM
- Report Finds Dip in Microsoft's Browser Share
- Seven Critical Fixes Expected on Tuesday
- Analyst: Beware of the Google Gadgets
- Networking Job Sector Is Booming, IDC Says
- Coreflood Trojan Stole 500G of Personal Financial Data

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- Unlocking the Secrets of Microsoft's Calendar
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1) DESMOND FILE

By Michael Desmond
Editor in Chief, Redmond Developer News


VISUAL STUDIO 2008 SP1 LANDS
So Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is finally here. And as
service packs go, VS08 SP1 is a pretty big deal.

The new bits do more than simply clean up flaws and holes in the
shipping versions of Visual Studio and .NET Framework 3.5. As John
Waters' story reveals, SP1 adds important new features, from
innovative data-handling technologies to game-changing
design-time tooling.
http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10117

You could argue that calling this release a simple SP1 entirely
understates the importance of the latest versions of Visual Studio
and .NET Framework. Look no further than SP1's support for language
integrated query (LINQ) and the ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF). These
technologies promise to literally change the way developers work
with data.

In fact, as Gartner Analyst Mark Driver noted, the EF introduces an
object relational mapping (ORM) toolset to Microsoft-bound developers.

"It replicates what people like to do with Hibernate. LINQ to
Entities is as close as you're going to get to Microsoft's ORM
facility any time soon," Driver said.

Ultimately, the data and scalability improvements of SP1 could help
make the .NET Framework enterprise-ready in the eyes of large
development organizations. But Forrester Analyst Jeffrey Hammond has
some misgivings about the pile-up of redundant tooling and resources
that could complicate decision making for development managers.

"This richness of choices is something that can create confusion
among developers," Hammond said, noting that developers can use the
.NET client runtime, Silverlight 1.1 or 2, or the Web Parts Framework
to build rich client interfaces. "Microsoft needs to continue to
support developers to help them make the right choices among all the
options they now have."

What are your impressions of VS08 SP1 and the updated .NET Framework
3.5? Are you planning to move to the new tooling soon? Let me know
at mdesmond@reddevnews.com.

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2) MORE NEWS FROM REDDEVNEWS.COM

Report Finds Dip in Microsoft's Browser Share
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Seven Critical Fixes Expected on Tuesday
http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10113

Analyst: Beware of the Google Gadgets
http://reddevnews.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10109

Networking Job Sector Is Booming, IDC Says
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Coreflood Trojan Stole 500G of Personal Financial Data
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(And don't forget -- the latest issue of Redmond Developer News is
also online at http://reddevnews.com/issue.)


COVER STORY: Microsoft in Transition
These are turbulent times for the software giant. The company is
grappling with upheaval in the industry, in its leadership and in the
way it deals with its partners. But one thing hasn't changed: Redmond
and the channel still need each other to succeed.
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