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Today we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.  You can download the final release using one of the links below:

Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.

Two weeks ago I blogged about a new MVC (Model View Controller) framework for ASP.NET that we are going to be supporting as an optional feature soon.  It provides a structured model that enforces a clear separation of concerns within applications, and makes it easier to unit test your code and support a TDD workflow.  It also helps provide more control over the URLs you publish in your applications, and can optionally provide more control over the HTML that is emitted from them.

People often ask me at conferences for PC hardware recommendations.  Specifically - "what type of machine do you recommend I get for doing development with Visual Studio?" and/or "your laptop seems really fast, what type is it?"

One of the things that is important to think about when you start using Silverlight in your sites/applications is to make sure you handle the "what if the end user doesn't have Silverlight installed yet?" scenario.  Ideally you want to make sure that the installation experience for Silverlight is very seamless, and nicely integrated into your overall end user experience.

Earlier this month we discovered that the VPC (Virtual PC) images we distributed as part of the VS 2008 Beta2 release this summer unfortunately have an operating system timeout of November 1st of this year.  The standalone VS 2008 setup packages do not have this issue - only the pre-built VPC images do.  So if you've installed VS 2008 on your own operating system image you won't have any issues.

Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.

One of the things that many people have asked for over the years with ASP.NET is built-in support for developing web applications using a model-view-controller (MVC) based architecture.