Of course, this is so much more than a Service Pack with the release now of ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and the Entity Framework among others. In my area of interest, CSD, there are some significant changes for REST programming (1st class citizen now) as well as some other additions: There were several enhancements to WCF in .NET Framework SP1 that make it easier for developers to build and deploy a broader, more scalable set of Web Services: Improvements in writing REST based services ranging

So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event published by Order system and subscribed by Microsoft CRM and GP) and not having to write that Raw WCF code anymore. Basic Pub/Sub is 470 lines of code in the WCF sample. It is 3 lines in Neuron (or

3 states in travel last week, 3 more this week. I'm now Silver on US Despair and headed up on Southwest... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio 2008 ScottGu continues his link blog posts with Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS Source Code Outliner 1.0 PowerToy for Visual Studio 2008 CLR/DLR/Languages/PAG/Software Patterns John Lam posts a link to the latest DLR Spec So glad to see my old list-mate from the old ATL/COM and old CLR lists, Chris Tavares blog on Deconstructing