On August 11,2008 Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for manufacturing. Visual Studio 2008 SP1 addresses issues found while feedback from customers and partners. Visual Studio SP1 includes a number of new improvements like increased Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) designer performance and updated components for Visual Basic and Visual C++ (including a MFC-based Office 2007 Ribbon). Web development improvements include enhanced the client-side script tooling (JavaScript IntelliSense). In addition to IDE performance improvements SP1 fully supports SQL Server 2008 and the ADO.NET Entity Framework.
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