ASP.NET 3.5 Released

I’ll blog about this here because everyone on the http://weblogs.asp.net/ site has already announced it. Microsoft has released the .NET Framework 3.5 which includes the new version of ASP.NET, known as ASP.NET 3.5. Visual Studio 2008 has also been released but SQL Server 2008 is still not available except in beta. I had the beta versions of Visual Studio 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5 installed on my home computer so I had a struggle to uninstall that and install the release versions. Fortunately I managed to accomplish this tonight. There were many packages installed by the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and I had to uninstall all of them manually before I could get Visual Web Developer 2008 to install successfully. I’ve also managed to create rounded corners for the divs used by the Microsoft Expression Web template. This gives me a basic web site design that I can completely define through CSS. I also have the JavaScript to allow you to switch the CSS so you can quickly see a web page with different designs applied. I’ll probably put a small demonstration site on my web site under the portfolio section so potential clients can see proof of my graphics abilities.