Looks Like VS2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 have ben released

Scott Guthrie's blog has some details about the release.  I'm a bit behind on this one, but some of the highlights I keyed in on:

ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript Support

.NET 3.5 has ASP.NET AJAX built-in (no separate download required).  In addition to including all of the features in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, ASP.NET 3.5 also now includes richer support for UpdatePanels integrating with WebParts, ASP.NET AJAX integration with controls like <asp:menu> and <asp:treeview>, WCF support for JSON, and many other AJAX improvements.

VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 also now have great support for integrating JavaScript and AJAX into your applications.  You can learn more about this from my blog posts here:

• VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense
• VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging
• VS 2008 ASP.NET AJAX Control Extender Support
• VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight

My plan today is to see if I can't develop a basic Silverlight 1.1 application.  I have this idea for a rich interactive display on top of XPlanner (everyone's favorite project tracking tool at my office) called TaskBored that would give you a view of open stories and the tasks associated with them as if it were all sticky notes.  The desire for this view came out of our planning process, and while we've pretty much left this technique behind as impractical the view of the work ahead it produces is useful.