Microsoft updates, trims .NET
Microsoft’s .NET framework has been on a diet. The company yesterday released service pack 1 for the framework and said that together with the new .NET framework Client Profile applications will benefit from an 86.5% reduction in code. For users this means applications built using .NET will be smaller and faster to download.
The release of SP1 for .NET comes less than a year after the release of .NET 3.5.
Microsoft also released service pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 yesterday. The latest release includes enhancements for developers building WPF applications, improved tools for developing AJAX applications and improvements when working witht the ADO.NET Entity Framework.
The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 includes several improvements to the common language runtime, such as the ability to generate managed code that improves application startup time by 20% to 45% and end-to-end application execution time up to 10%, Microsoft said yesterday.
The release of .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 come just days after Microsoft released SQL Server 2008.
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