Developers leveraging Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 are in for a treat in terms of the tools available for building what Microsoft referred to as client, web and data-driven applications. This because the Redmond giant just released to the Microsoft Download Center the Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework 3.5 and also for Visual Studio 2008. Even though Microsoft officially announced only the releasing to manufacturing of the two service packs, the gold builds of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 are available for download.