.Net 3.5 SP1...finally

Fate has a weird sense of humour. I held out from installing .net 3.5 sp1 all through the CTPs, then beta 1 and beta 2. This is also the first time I restrained myself from installing new stuff (coz simply put, having to uninstall a bunch of betas and patches and what not was getting to me). Well, I couldn't hold out any longer. I downloaded the entire thing. My internet is pretty crap, so I had to download the packages individually, then run a command line switch to download the final files. After that, was a quite long install. It failed. I removed silverlight tools. Tried again. Worked perfectly. I played around for a few hours. Made a few apps. Liked the new stuff quite a bit. And then, at 4 am, I went to bed.

I wake up, and what do I see? Damn you Microsoft...you just released the final .net 3.5 sp1 bits while I was asleep. Couldn't you have done it ONE day earlier or a month later? It HAD to be today, right? Why God, WHY?!?!?!

Ah well...guess I'll be downloading it all over again. And I gues I can forgive MS as the sp1 is actually available as an ISO. That is SO much more convenient to me. Thanks guys.

You can download .net 3.5 sp1 from bootstrapper here. You can download the FULL .net 3.5 sp1 from here. You can download the Visual Studio 2008 sp1 bootstrapper here. And you can download the FULL VS 2008 sp1 from here. Please note that the VS 2008 sp1s contain .net 3.5 sp1. Also note that the bootsrappers will require internet connectivity during installation, while the full versions will not.