Now that the .NET Reference Source Code for .NET 3.5 SP1 has made it up to Microsoft's servers, Kerem Kusmezer and I updated NetMassDownloader to support populating your symbol server cache directory with all the source code and symbols. Microsoft did some tweaks to the debugger with SP1 and the symbols are expected to be in a MicrosoftPublicSymbols directory under your symbol cache in order to download the reference source files in the debugger. I ...

As the world knows, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is out so start your download engines. I've installed it on one machine so far and I thought I'd mention a few things I found interesting. The install took exactly an hour for me and was far better than the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 torture. After the first Next click I just let it run and didn't have to baby sit it. I installed off the ISO ...