{"id":4807,"date":"2008-08-12T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-12T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:09:00","slug":"microsoft-updates-trims-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/4807-microsoft-updates-trims-net.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft updates, trims .NET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;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. <\/p>\n<p>The release of SP1 for .NET comes less than a year after the release of .NET 3.5.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>The release of .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 come just days after Microsoft released SQL Server 2008. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=131102\"><strong>Microsoft .NET discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company promises faster, slimmer applications with service pack 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}